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Postgame Show | Buccaneers vs. Jaguars Preseason Week 3 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome in, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: coach Mark Duffner here with you. Coach, always better to win.
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  Speaker 3: We're live in the Hyundai studios and some good performances.
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  Speaker 3: Some guys trying to make the 53-man roster tonight.
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  Speaker 4: There really was. I mean, really a dominant performance by
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  Speaker 4: our team. Defense played well. Offense played well. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of special teams, geez, 61-yard field goals. So everybody contributed
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  Speaker 4: to really a dominant win.
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  Speaker 2: All right, just getting underway here.
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  Speaker 3: Jags winning, of course, 19-0. The Jaguars radio network presented
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars. You know, Coach, all the talk this week
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  Speaker 3: is about bubble guys, who is on the bubble, who's
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  Speaker 3: not on the bubble. And I think one guy we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about throughout the postgame tonight is Brian
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  Speaker 3: with a Y. Brian Thomas Jr., the other Brian Thomas Jr.,
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  Speaker 3: the other BTJ, which is a fair nod to our
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver here. But this undrafted rookie, Brian Thomas Jr.,
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  Speaker 3: came in tonight. And if you needed a performance to
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  Speaker 3: cement the spot on the 53-man roster, Coach, how does
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  Speaker 3: two and a half sacks sound to you?
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  Speaker 4: He was loud with his play. No question about it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, five tackles in the game, two and a
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  Speaker 4: half sacks, as you just mentioned, four quarterback hits. He
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  Speaker 4: had a special teams tackle, too. So you talk about
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  Speaker 4: really a tremendous effort by this young man. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's been a buzz about him, but, boy, he put
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  Speaker 4: it on the line tonight in a productive way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll give it to T.J. Bowlers as well,
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  Speaker 3: who had a sack and a half. He split that
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  Speaker 3: last sack with Brian Thomas, Jr. But, I mean, Coach,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of talk, like, is he the
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  Speaker 3: 53rd man? Is he the 7th defensive end? Is he
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  Speaker 3: even the 6th defensive end? So as I'm watching tonight,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay– Are you playing him to see if
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  Speaker 3: he shows up and rises to the occasion? Because I
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  Speaker 3: know there was some fear in this building that if
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  Speaker 3: they try to wave him and get him on the
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  Speaker 3: practice squad, that they're not going to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, after tonight, it's over. It's over. You've got no
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  Speaker 2: chance to get him on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: No, he demonstrated tremendous play tonight. And so he let
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  Speaker 4: the NFL know that he's a young man to be
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  Speaker 4: reckoned with as a rookie and a productive player.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's on his squad.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, when we come back, we'll have Kai
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  Speaker 3: Stevens with Liam Cohen, some of the players down at
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  Speaker 3: the Everbank Vault. Final score, 19-0 as the Jags wrap
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  Speaker 3: up the preseason with a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars postgame continues. Mike Dempsey and Mark Duffner from the
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  Speaker 3: superlatives we gave out to Brian with a Y. in
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  Speaker 3: the opening segment of the post game. How about Michael
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  Speaker 3: Wortham tonight? Five punt returns averaged over 24 yards of return,
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  Speaker 3: including the 63 yard touchdown and chipped in with three
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  Speaker 3: catches for 47 yards. I don't know if there's a
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  Speaker 3: spot for him on the 53 yards, But, man, when
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  Speaker 3: you look down at that practice squad, if you have
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  Speaker 3: an issue, an injury to Parker Washington, you need a
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  Speaker 3: return guy. Look, I get Josh Cameron, heralded return guy
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  Speaker 3: in college. Michael Wortham showed everybody something tonight. And you
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  Speaker 3: and I have talked about him out there on the
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  Speaker 3: practice field watching from the sideline. The map doesn't work
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  Speaker 3: in his favor, but number zero put on a show tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Well, statistics work in his favor. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 4: you right now, that was an electric punt return. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it lit up the place. and all this guy does
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  Speaker 4: is continue to make big plays.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk more about Michael Worthen coming up.
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  Speaker 3: DJ Dallas also had an impact on this game, and
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  Speaker 3: Kai Stevens is standing by with the Jaguar running back.
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  Speaker 5: Sure did. DJ, a little frustrated on the front of that.
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  Speaker 5: Before you got the actual touchdown, you felt like you
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  Speaker 5: were in there already. It must have felt like you
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  Speaker 5: scored three times in that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: They tell us not to reach the ball. I was
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  Speaker 9: just trying to get in there, man, but... Yeah, I
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  Speaker 9: was tired. I was about to throw up and some
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  Speaker 9: more stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Are you happy they at least called the fake run
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  Speaker 5: to the pass so you can get your score in?
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  Speaker 2: Man, no.
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  Speaker 9: I was wanting Carter to get in on that QB sneak. Man,
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  Speaker 9: I felt bad. I hit him so hard to try
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  Speaker 9: to get him in the end zone. When he come
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  Speaker 9: up out of the foul, I'm like, oh, man, dang.
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  Speaker 2: I missed my boy.
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  Speaker 5: You might have hurt your own guy.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's it.
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  Speaker 5: A trait for the whole room. You guys are so selfless.
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  Speaker 5: You don't care who scores or who it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 9: As Jaguars running back with Coach Morton and the crew,
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  Speaker 9: we try to be as selfless as possible, put the
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  Speaker 9: team over ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't care.
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  Speaker 9: A touchdown is a touchdown is a touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: How much fun has that room been? You've got some
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  Speaker 5: young guys and then you've got Amir Abdul who's been
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  Speaker 5: around forever and ever. Has it been a fun group
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  Speaker 5: to work with so far? The guys....
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  Speaker 9: I mean, now being an old head a little bit,
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  Speaker 9: they keep me kind of going, you know, with LaQuint especially.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 5: Chad Morton, very impressed.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, with LaQuint, I just see a lot of my
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  Speaker 9: traits as a younger player when I was a younger
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  Speaker 9: player in him. So, yeah, they keep me going.
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  Speaker 5: How do you keep LaQuint on the rails?
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  Speaker 9: Shoot, man, he keep me on the rails. He'd keep
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  Speaker 9: me on the rails. He'd keep me straight. He just
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  Speaker 9: pushed me to be my best self every day. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I enjoy him. I enjoy our room. It's been fun.
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  Speaker 9: I had fun this camp. This has probably been one
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  Speaker 9: of my most fun camps, even with last game, you know,
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  Speaker 9: fumbling or whatever. They all kept me up. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 9: been fun. I had a good time.
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  Speaker 5: How much does the joint practices help you guys? You
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  Speaker 5: guys get to get a little, you know, you get competitive,
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  Speaker 5: but you're going against each other. When you have so
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  Speaker 5: many joint practices, you finally get to go against someone else.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, man, this camp. So in my career, I've never
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  Speaker 9: done like three joint practices, like back-to-back-to-back weeks. And, man,
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you, it's been, this is probably the most
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  Speaker 9: fun I've had, you know, because camp can get kind
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  Speaker 9: of tedious, you know what I mean, and going against
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  Speaker 9: each other. That's fun and all, but when you get
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  Speaker 9: to hit somebody else on another team, that's even more fun. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I've had a great time, honestly.
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  Speaker 5: Congrats on the touchdown. Congrats on the win.
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: That was a Kai Stevens with DJ Dallas and the
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  Speaker 3: a quick time out, come back and hear from head coach,
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  Speaker 3: Liam Cohen, final score, 19 to nothing. The Jaguars over
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  Speaker 3: the Buccaneers. This is Jaguars post game on the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: radio network. Jaguars postgame continues. Mike Dempsey, Coach Mark Duffner here,
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  Speaker 3: brought to you by GEHA, Government Employees Health Association, benefits
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  Speaker 3: for federal employees and retirees. Coming up in a moment,
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  Speaker 3: Kai Stevens with Head Coach Liam Cohen, the head coach
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  Speaker 3: interview presented by GEHA, Government Employees Health Association, benefits for
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  Speaker 3: federal employees and retirees. So in a moment, Coach Duffner,
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  Speaker 3: will go down and hear from Coach William Cohen, who
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  Speaker 3: I will see. You know, like you and I were
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  Speaker 3: remarking earlier, his comments on Sunday were interesting to us
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  Speaker 3: because we thought Joey Aguilar had such a great performance
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  Speaker 3: last week against Carolina. And then William's like, yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: probably could.
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  Speaker 2: Have been 10 out of 10. Like, all right. You know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's probably a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: No matter how successful you are, set the bar just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit higher and keep achieving or keep striving.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he wanted to just let him know, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you're not Joe Namath yet.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't gotten it done yet.
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  Speaker 4: But boy, terrific start. We can talk about him for
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  Speaker 4: a lot tonight. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to hear from William Cohen in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment here. Aguilar, again, a very efficient night throwing
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  Speaker 3: the football. So we'll have plenty of time to get
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  Speaker 3: into him and how Carter Bradley played as well. He
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  Speaker 3: did throw that touchdown to DJ Dallas and a great,
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  Speaker 3: you know, attitude from DJ. And, you know, even if
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  Speaker 3: you think guys are saying the right thing to be
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  Speaker 3: politically correct, they are saying the right things, right? They're
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  Speaker 3: putting out this aura of, man, it doesn't matter if
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  Speaker 3: it's me, if it's that guy, if it's the next guy.
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  Speaker 3: As long as we're having team success, we all thrive
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  Speaker 3: off of that.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, there's a lot of team first in this group.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now. You hear it in the
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  Speaker 4: way they talk. I watch it. You see it in
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  Speaker 4: the way they practice. You've got the O-line picking up
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  Speaker 4: players downfield. A lot of good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Here's Kai Stevens with head coach Liam Cohen. Kai?
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  Speaker 5: Coach, we'll keep it quick. This has been a long
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  Speaker 5: training camp, long preseason. When you look back, do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like you got what you needed out of those
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  Speaker 5: joint practices and now this final game?
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  Speaker 10: I do. I think that the experience and the opportunity
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  Speaker 10: to coach in those joint practices, we cannot simulate with
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  Speaker 10: just going against each other. And I really do think
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  Speaker 10: that they were beneficial moments for us. And maybe one
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  Speaker 10: have truly been exposed if we would have played these
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  Speaker 10: guys for maybe a drive or two in a game. And,
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  Speaker 10: you know, when you have to go through 50, 60
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  Speaker 10: play joint practice, there's just so much more film that
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  Speaker 10: we can really coach off of and things that we
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  Speaker 10: can improve on. And then you go out and finish
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  Speaker 10: the preseason with a physical outing, especially on the defensive
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  Speaker 10: side of the ball, and really kind of dominate that.
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  Speaker 10: That was exciting to see.
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  Speaker 5: We talked earlier this week about BJ Green's preseason game
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  Speaker 5: number three last year kind of really solidified his spot
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  Speaker 5: on a roster. I have to imagine Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 5: was trying to do the same thing this year. How
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  Speaker 5: impressed were you with him today and through training camp?
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  Speaker 10: Extremely. He has a gift of rushing the passer and
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  Speaker 10: that's rare, right? So many guys can win maybe the
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  Speaker 10: first part of the down and the finishing aspect of
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  Speaker 10: rushing the passer is a gift. And I think he
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  Speaker 10: plays with our play style. He knows how we want
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  Speaker 10: to play the game. I thought he had some good
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  Speaker 10: reps in the run game as well. And so Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: he's definitely made his mark and I would be shocked
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  Speaker 10: if he wasn't a Jag.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's like 16 days until the first game.
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  Speaker 5: That's a little bit longer than normal. Are you excited
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  Speaker 5: to have a little bit more time to game plan
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  Speaker 5: or are you just itching to get out there already?
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  Speaker 10: No, I think it's going to be good for us.
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  Speaker 10: I think that our players have some confidence right now
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  Speaker 10: coming off especially the last two joint practices and having
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  Speaker 10: some momentum coming from those while still knowing that there's
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  Speaker 10: work to be done, that there's A lot of things
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  Speaker 10: that we can continue to clean up and that we
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  Speaker 10: need to continue to clean up heading into Cleveland. And
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  Speaker 10: all eyes have been on Cleveland really for the last
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  Speaker 10: few days. And in our game planning and off the
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  Speaker 10: field when we have some time, that's what coaches have
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  Speaker 10: been doing. You know, I met with the entire offense
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  Speaker 10: today that didn't play in the game, and we watched
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  Speaker 10: a 50-play Cleveland cut up today. That's kind of been
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  Speaker 10: where we're headed. Now the focus does turn to them,
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  Speaker 10: but we have to continue to focus on ourselves and
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  Speaker 10: clean up the things we need to clean up.
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  Speaker 5: Just last one from me. I know you talked a
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  Speaker 5: lot about having the veterans kind of working with the
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  Speaker 5: younger guys and making sure you're playing Jaguars football. It
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  Speaker 5: feels like that showed up today.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 10: I was very pleased with the effort from the guys
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  Speaker 10: out on the grass and the energy from the guys
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  Speaker 10: on the sideline. That was really cool to watch. to
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  Speaker 10: be a part of, to have those guys that were
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  Speaker 10: playing feel the vets and to feel those guys that
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  Speaker 10: they cared about it. They had a standard for how
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  Speaker 10: we wanted to play tonight. And they went and put
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  Speaker 10: it on tape. And that's what it's all about. And
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  Speaker 10: the chemistry, the continuity seemed there tonight in a lot
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  Speaker 10: of ways. And these guys are helping forge our 2026 season.
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  Speaker 10: There's no question about it. And the way that they
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  Speaker 10: came out and performed tonight only solidified that.
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  Speaker 5: All right, congrats on the win. We'll see you in
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  Speaker 5: the regular season.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Liam Cohen.
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  Speaker 3: I had to laugh, Coach Duff, as he said, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be shocked if he's not a Jaguar.
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  Speaker 2: Does Liam Cohen know he has a pretty big say?
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  Speaker 4: He has a big say. He has a very, very
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  Speaker 4: big vote. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, he cemented it, slammed the door
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  Speaker 3: shut on any doubt, whatever you want to say, superlatives.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I love from my untrained eye watching Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Jr., okay?
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  Speaker 3: You're a guy who's coached. linebackers, pass rushers, all these guys.
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  Speaker 3: The first sack is a classic around-the-end bend, right? He's
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  Speaker 3: going outside the tackle, and he's low to the ground,
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  Speaker 3: getting as parallel to the ground as he can. The
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  Speaker 3: next one is an inside swim move. So he's already
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  Speaker 3: showing you he's got a little bit of a repertoire here. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: no question about it.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that not only does he have the
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  Speaker 4: pass rush tools, but he knows when to apply them.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted the top of the rush you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: We call that bending the edge. And then he set
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  Speaker 4: the guy up to beat him back inside. And he
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  Speaker 4: has the ability athletically to twist and bend, which is
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  Speaker 4: part of it too. You've got to have ankle flexion.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to be flexible to do what he did.
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  Speaker 4: Highly impressive in terms of what Brian Thomas did in
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  Speaker 4: this game.
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  Speaker 3: 50-play cut-up for the offensive players who were not playing
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  Speaker 3: tonight for the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 2: William Cohen notes what the goal is.
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  Speaker 3: The goal is not to beat the Tampa Bay Bucs
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  Speaker 3: in Week 3 of the preseason, although they handled that.
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  Speaker 3: The goal is to open the season 1-0.
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  Speaker 4: I love it, and I'm sure that happened in the
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  Speaker 4: defense room and also on special teams, so they're on it.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: There's a darn good plan right now in terms of
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: every day making progress towards the Cleveland Browns in this
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: season moving forward.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: All right, Coach Duffner, Mike Dempsey here with you. Folks,
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: bring home the W like the Jags did tonight. When
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: the Jags win, you win a free Whataburger.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: How about that? All right, we will come back and
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: we'll talk.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: About some of the standout performers in this contest. Jags
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: win it 19 to nothing in their final preseason outing.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: This one against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is Jaguars
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: postgame on Jaguars Radio. Jaguars postgame presented by GEHA. Mike Dempsey,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Mark Duffner from the Hyundai Studios. Glad you're along with us.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Jags win it 19 to nothing. It is only the preseason.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Better to win than lose. It's more about the performance
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: than the final score. All that stuff, coach, is true.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: But I think the players still feel better coming off
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: and getting that W headed to the locker room.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: No question about it. When you finish preseason like that
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: with a shutout and an impressive outing by all three
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: phases of the game, it's a great effort.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Third quarterback position. These kind of things you talk about
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: in the third week of the preseason. By all accounts,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Nick Mullins is the backup.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: On this team, right?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: We heard Liam Cohen a couple weeks ago express his
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: trust in Nick.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, he played a little bit tonight, but he started.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: They got him out.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Had a pretty effective quarterback rating for the second week
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: in a row. Okay, so we assume that that is
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: locked in. Nobody else at the quarterback position on the
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: active roster. Maybe they keep both on the practice squad,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: but coach, if it comes down, To Carter Bradley and
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Joey Aguilar, where does Coach Mark Duffner come down?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I've got to say, Carter Bradley,
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I love the competitiveness of him. I love how smart
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: he is, how he runs the offense. He pulled Tampa
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Bay off two times with his cadence, doing a great
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: job of varying that. But I have to say, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: really like Joey Aguilar. I mean, he's 7 for 9 tonight.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: You know, this season, Mike, he's 17 for 20, in
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: my math, somewhere around 220 yards. I mean, the guy
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: is out there. He's got command. He's got poise. He's
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: able to get the ball out quickly. He's got escapability.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I think he's a developmentally ascending player. And under Liam's
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: tutelage here, I think this guy can be something.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Something you and I talked about this week, putting a
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: high-volume offense, right? Which means he can process quickly. He
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: can handle a lot of info coming in. He can,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you know, when things are swirling, he can play at
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: a high tempo. And I think with that, he gets
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: rid of the ball. When he sees it, the ball
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: is out. And that's one thing. Like, you know, look,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: is he going to be completing 90% of his passes
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: in his NFL career?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I would think not.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: But he's very decisive when it comes time to release
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the ball.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: He's decisive, Mike, and I don't see any panic in
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: the guy, not at all. I mean, like you just said,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: at Tennessee, he goes from Appalachian State to Tennessee, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: he runs the most prolific tempo offense in the country.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: And so you've got to have something on the ball
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: a lot in terms of smarts and communication and poise
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: and leadership to do that. And he's coming in and
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: done that from the very beginning.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You know, his guy in the first couple of games
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: had been Trevor Pena, right?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And so that, you know, I'm sure.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Fling and cling.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, that's a... Did you just come up with that?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Not that bad right there. Thank you.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: But, you know, in all seriousness, like tonight... A little
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: bit more Michael Wertham. We saw from Wertham in the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: return game, like Trevor Pena, I'm not going to knock
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: what he's done because he's made some big catches in
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks. He had that drop in
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the first game and came back, which showed a lot,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: you know, with that 43-yard catch. Had a big game
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: last week. When you look at these two guys, Coach,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I think they'd like to have them both, Pena and
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: worth them on the practice squad um but just as
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a pure receiver which one of those guys has the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: edge in your mind oh.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Boy i i i kind of if i had to
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: make a decision i probably would go with pena i
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: think but but i think they're both valuable they both
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: return kicks i mean you're getting value here getting two
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: for players guys that can help move the offense, help
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: in special teams. I mean, I think they're both exceptionally
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: worthy players. I hope like heck we can keep him
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: on the practice.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Wertham almost popped two in the return game tonight.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: He had the one and he was upset with himself
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: for getting tackled. And Jeff Logman, if you heard him
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: on the broadcast, it's like nobody's fair catching that in
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the preseason.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: He's right.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is your opportunity to go out and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: make a play. We saw the Bucs return man catch
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: a punt at the one-yard line. I don't blame him, Coach.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: You're not going to get any points for letting it
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: bounce into the end zone.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Again, you've got to show up loud with your play,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: and that's what these guys do.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: All right, we've made it this far, and we just
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: haven't even casually mentioned that Cam Little pounded another 60-plus yarder.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So I watched him in pregame, and this sucker was
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: hitting him from almost maybe like 70, and he wasn't
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: even trying to do it. I mean, it was unbelievable
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: how strong his leg is. And to get that done tonight,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: special teams, tremendous. I mean, they hit that 61-yarder, the
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: big punt return, 20 yards plus it. punt return average.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, geez, it really production.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: If you're a golfer, you had like that one yard
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: draw on it. I mean, right down the center of
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the fairway. And what a weapon that is. What a
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: luxury that is. When you're the coach, you can.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Do all kinds of things. We saw.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: The first instance, we saw Liam Cohen decide to pooch punt.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So here's Logan Cook pinning them at the four-yard line. So, like,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the special teams, the specialists, we know Mattisik is an all-pro.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: The kicker-punter aspect of this team is as good, I think,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: as probably any combo in the league.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I think it is, absolutely. And like I said, when
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: you look at even last year's statistics, and they're heading
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: that direction now, a top-10 scoring defense, a top-10 scoring offense,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: and special teams at the top. I don't know another
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: team that can boast that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: We got more superlatives that we will check off throughout
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the course of the postgame tonight. But when we come back,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: we'll get into a little bit of a stats check
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: here for you and see exactly what the final numbers
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: looked like. with an Everbank stats check coming up. Folks,
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• 22:16
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• 22:22
  Speaker 3: presented by GEHA. Mike Dempsey, Mark Dumpner from the Hyundai Studios. Coach,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: let me take a look at the numbers here with
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: an Everbank stats check. Quarterbacks tonight threw for one. 63. Officially,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: when you factor in the sack yardage, the Bucs had
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: 31 passing yards in this game. When you subtract the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: sack yardage from the actual passing yardage, the actual passing
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: yardage was 64.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: There was pressures there. We had four sacks, I believe.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: That's Russian coverage working together with a backup group of players.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Excellent effort.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: We had Braswell and Muhammad both out there tonight, maybe
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: battling for one roster spot. Might both make it. We
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: don't know what they're thinking math-wise. But we saw Christian
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Braswell have a pass breakup early. And then Jabbar Muhammad
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: had one over the middle. It was incomplete off the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: receiver's hands. He didn't get credit for the pass defense,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: but he was in good position.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Mike, you've got excellent eyes, I'm telling you, because those
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: are notes that I wrote down. You just said them verbatim,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: and you weren't looking at my paper.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I swear I can't see your paper.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: No, no, I cannot see that paper from here. No,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: that's excellent. Very good. Yes, sir.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: All right, quarterbacks for the Jags.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Carter Bradley, 8 of 15 for 77 yards and the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: one-yard touchdown pass to DJ Dallas. Nick Mullins goes 5
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: of 7 for 62. Joey Aguilar, 7 of 9 for
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: 57 yards. Overall, 20 of 31, 163. A touchdown, no interceptions.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Jag quarterbacks were sacked four times. overall passer rating of
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: 92.9 all three of the jaguar quarterbacks were over 90
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: in that category so good job there uh jamari taylor
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: came in had a couple of bruising runs 12 carries
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: for 44 yards led the way for the jaguars dj
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: dallas kind of bottled up a lot of tough yards
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: for him 15 for 34 looked uh to all the world.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: To me coach like he had that touchdown.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I thought so too again i didn't you know i'm
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: on the press box a long way away but it
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: looked like a touchdown to me but Ultimately, we got
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: in the end zone, and that's what counts.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Hunter Long led the Jags. They're tied for the lead
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: with Michael Wortham with 47 yards. I would have loved
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to have seen Hunter Long get the chance to play
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: more tonight because in the pregame, Jeff Logman was very
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: adamant that this team is keeping four tight ends, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: he thinks Quentin Morris is the last one. Now, Quentin
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Morris may not have played tonight if Hunter Long doesn't
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: go out with the rib injury. He came in with
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the one catch, but— long look good catching the ball
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: and I've noticed him more as a pass catcher but
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: that might not be what the Jags are looking for
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in that fourth tight end spot yeah I.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Don't know all I do know is that like you
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: said he started out blazing I mean the 34 yard
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: catch he had in the first drive he had another
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: next series had a 13 yard catch the one he
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: got hurt on I mean I think they were trying
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: to feature him a little bit in the passing game
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: to see his production and he came through when he
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: had The call was to him, you know?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: And people are probably listening and going, wait a minute.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: What do you mean they want a tight end who
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: doesn't catch the ball? I'm not saying they don't want
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: a tight end who can catch the ball. They may
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: be looking more for the physical blocking and special teams
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: aspect where Quentin Morris is thought to have the edge there.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: If you're looking for more of an offensive weapon, Hunter
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Long might profile more that way. But anyway, it's just
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: a shame that he had to go out early tonight.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Michael Wortham, the three catches for 47. Austin Trammell caught
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: three for 36. Three catches for Trevor Pena for 19.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Chandler Brayboy had a couple for 17. Patrick Herbert caught
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: two for 12. DJ Dallas caught a couple out of
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the backfield. Jamari Taylor, Brady Boyd, and Quinton Morris each
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: had a solo catch tonight. Defensively, Coach, Jalen McLeod. He's
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: around the football a lot. One solo, six assists, tackle
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: for loss, a quarterback hit. Here's another guy on the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: proverbial bubble heading into the weekend.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: He was active. You're 100% correct. He was productive, especially
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: in the first half. I mean, he was all around
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: the ball. That tackle for loss was an excellent play
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: in the flat where he made a great tackle on
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: the receiver in the flat. So again, I was impressed
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: with him. And by the way, he was actually making
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the defensive call in the huddle quite a bit. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: he was Hearing the call from the coach on the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: sideline and making the call, another positive thing.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: No doubt. Brian Thomas, come on. What a night for him.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Five total tackles, three solos plus on special teams. He
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: had another one, two and a half sacks, two tackles
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: for loss, four quarterback hits.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: He had a pass breakup. I mean, what do you
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: want out of this guy?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: And a special teams tackle.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Just spectacular. He did everything but get popcorn and play
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: in the band.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: If he was on the– like if he was maybe
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: number 54, and I don't know, maybe he was already
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: on the team, right? But if he was number 54
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: coming into the night, he might have jumped up to
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: like number 44 in that performance.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: And, you know, he's been consistent. I mean, he's been
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the talk of the camp often all the way through.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: So he's had a very good camp. It's not like
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: this is a surprise late in the down. You know,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: he's been that way all along. I gained a lot
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: of respect in how he's played this camp.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: All right, a few more stats coming up, but let's
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: quickly pause 10 seconds here for station identification on the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars radio network. All right, Coach, other noteworthy performances
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: on the defensive side. I mentioned T.J. Bowler's had a
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: sack and a half tonight. Amari Burney also chipping in. Overall,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: the Jags get five sacks in the game on the
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Jags have 14 first downs tonight to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: only six for the Bucs, 249 to 87 in total yardage.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was complete domination. Again, we're not... getting
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: two out of our heads here we understand most of
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the players on the box field are not going to
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: be playing on Sunday afternoons this fall but that's the
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: same for the Jags and what you're trying to do
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: coach is you're trying to have that that culture right
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: you want a culture from top down that permeates everything
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: you do the standard that's what they've been talking about
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: this all season whatever the Jaguar standard is you've got
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: to match that you've got to live up to it
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: and you You know, I think it's permeated throughout this roster.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean it's the greatest roster in the NFL
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: or history or anything like that. But the mental aspect
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: of what it means to be a Jag, I think
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Liam Cohen has done as much in that area to
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: turn that around as anything he's done with his X's
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and O's.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: No doubt about it. I mean, the response of this team.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: So in the Carolina game, we had a very good
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: joint practice. Didn't play as well in the Carolina game overall.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: It was some areas we wanted to get better at.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: We had a dominant performance against Tampa Bay in the
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: first joint practice and carried that into this game with
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: a dominant performance, a shutout production like you saw on offense, defense,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: and special teams. So they're understanding the message right now that, hey,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: we've got to take advantage of it. We've got to
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: eat our best each and every opportunity we have.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: All right, though. There you go.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Your Everbank stats check. And we'll continue along. Jags win
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: it 19 to nothing. When we return, the always popular
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Jaguars Radio Network player of the game voting.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: 19 to nothing. Jags over the Buccaneers. This is Jaguars
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: postgame on Jaguars Radio.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Jaguars post game brought to you by GEHA government employees,
• 29:24
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• 29:29
  Speaker 3: with Mark Duffner in the Hyundai studios.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: All right, coach. We like to.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Gin this up, create some drama, but we we don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: have a third voter tonight. So usually in front of Taylor,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: someone subbing in for him, we'll have the vote and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: a half, but I think we agree on who the
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: player of the game will be, but let's go through
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: some of.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: The candidates first. Okay.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Um, I think it's certainly worth mentioning, at the very least,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: that T.J. Bowler's had a great game. He had a
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: sack and a half, man.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Sure did.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: You know, this is probably the most I've talked about T.J.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Bowler's all training camp, but good for him.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Very, very good.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: For going out there and getting it done. Cam Little
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: always raises an eyebrow. And when it was 3-0, I'm thinking, well,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: there's your play of the game, your player of the game,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. But 61-yarder, worth noting. But we got
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: two guys at the top. We got Brian Thomas with
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: a lie. Brian Thomas Jr. Two and a half sacks.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Four quarterback hits. Two tackles for loss. Pass breakup. Five
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: total tackles. Outstanding night. But then we have Michael Wertham,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: who caught three for 47. And what he did in
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: the return game was spectacular. Five punt returns. 124 yards.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: A long of 63 that went to the house. Almost
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: took another one to the end zone. That would have
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: been two, obviously. 24.8 average on punt returns.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: So.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I think I saved the best two for last. Who
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: do you see as the Jaguar Radio Network player of
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the game?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to go with Mr. Obvious here, Brian Thomas.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, he just had too much production, whether it's
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: affecting the quarterback, special teams hits, passes broken up. I mean, quarterback,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: like sacks, quarterback hits, just too active. But that game
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: by Wortham was really noteworthy. I mean, he's an electric
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: little player. I'll tell you that right now.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Coach, let me ask you this. I don't have any
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: say over this, obviously, right? I... I know what the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: depth chart looks like. I know what the pecking order
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: looks like.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Other than B.J. Green, I'm more excited about Brian Thomas Jr.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Than any of the other edge rushers that are behind
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Josh Hines-Allen and Trayvon Walker.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's been productive as heck. I mean, he's made plays,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: and he's made plays when we need him a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times. So, I mean... The production, those things, that
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: doesn't lie. So I'm with you.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Wesley Williams flashed on a couple of plays tonight. He
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: was around the ball, had the fumble recovery.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Had the fumble recovery.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: And Strigo, we know, can play ball in the NFL, right?
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Zach Durfee is the mystery.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Was he held out tonight because they have seen enough,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: or was he a little bit banged up? And that
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: gets all into roster breakdown and composition. And, you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: they can designate a couple of guys to return on IR.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: They might place another one or two on season ending.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: We just don't know. We don't know what they're going
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: to do with the math. But yeah, Brian Thomas, man.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, really, I feel like the last couple of weeks,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: he's got more word of mouth buzz than any other
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: player on this team.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Well, you know what? Kudos have to go to the
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: personnel department, too, because you mentioned B.J. Green and Strigo.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Both of those guys, college-free agents a year ago, not
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: only make the team, but play in games this past season.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: And as already mentioned, Strigo and Green picking up where
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: they left off. Now you've got Brian Thomas, and there's
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: other players. Whirtham, Pena.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: You're finding guys that are college-free agents that were probably
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: draftable players, but they didn't get drafted, but Our staff
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: went out and got them and brought them in here
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: with guys. I mean, it's a great thing. The team
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: can say to the rest of the league, you come
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: here as a college free agent, you're going to play
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: and have an opportunity to make our squad.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and sometimes you look and you go, well, these
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: guys are so great. Why didn't they just draft them? Well, sometimes,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: as you know, the draft is– Who you like, but
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: also who you think might not make it through.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: The seventh round.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Is there, you know, Zach Durfee had a little buzz
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: coming into the draft. If we don't grab him now,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: there's a good chance he won't be available for us
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to sign him as an undrafted free agent. So you
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: got to, you know, they've done a good job, I think,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: kind of assessing which players are going to slide through
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the seventh round.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: An excellent job. And really, that's when you're getting great
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: value in your roster player acquisition. When you can get
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: guys that are not drafted that can make your team
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: plus the draft picks he got, they make the team.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: That's excellent value. And, again, kudos to personnel staff in
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: terms of what they're doing.
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: Dang.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Kudos to Brian Thomas Jr. with a Y tonight for
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: the game he had with the two-and-a-half sacks, our Jaguar
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• 34:04
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• 34:08
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• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Coach, you know, they don't have to.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Tell us anything about injuries in the preseason. So there
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: may have been a guy or two who got nicked up.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Like Carter Bradley, I thought, got hit in the ankle
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: maybe early. But he didn't come out or anything like that.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: But Hunter Long, as we mentioned, took a shot in
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: the ribs. didn't return to action tonight. So the one
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: injury that I'm definitely aware of tonight.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Anybody else?
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Not that I saw. And even Hunter, I was watching
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: him from the press box. I mean, I know he
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: wasn't going back in, but he was moving around. I
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: think that's a minor one. I hope so.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Let's hope so. Well, the more important thing is.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Which of these injuries that we're not quite sure even
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: what some of the nature of the injuries are will
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: clear up over the course of the next 16 days
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: until the Jags play their opener against Cleveland. You got
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Laquan Allen, who we know has been ruled out for
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the preseason, which opens the door potentially for Amir Abdullah
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: to be on this team. And maybe he just makes
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: the 53 outright. He didn't dress tonight, which is a
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: good sign for him.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Patrick McCary. Don't know.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: You said you saw him moving around doing normal human
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: being stuff pretty well.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Which is a little bit different than offensive line play.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: So it's tough to assess with these guys. A back,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: you don't know unless you're experiencing it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. And the position he plays where you're straining a lot.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's something we've got to be aware of.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I think at a minimum, Coach, it's... and this is
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: pure speculation on my part, is the short-term IR version,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: you know, missed the first four games of the season.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I think possibly IR and out for the year is
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: in play. But again, we're not privy to these discussions,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: but he's a guy to watch. Chuma Adoga didn't play tonight.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Been a little bit nicked up, but, you know, it
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like it's anything too serious.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Mentioned Zach Durfee, maybe a candidate to kind of stash
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: and develop.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting to see what goes on,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: that's for sure. I will say this, our training staff
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: and medical staff, I mean, a week ago we were
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: concerned about the health of the offensive line. That's kind
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: of now gotten in the rear view mirror. They do
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: a tremendous job of getting players back. We're happy about that.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: On that front, you mentioned Cole Van Lannen dressed.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he dressed.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: He went through warm-ups tonight.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, which I thought was great.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I don't think there was ever a chance he was
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: going in the game, no matter what happened, right?
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: No, not a chance.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: But just to have him, he's got to take these
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: steps to get ready.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: It's part of the acclimatization process, and I think they
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: did a great job doing that for him.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Jack Kaiser, kind of a mystery to what– extent this
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: is that could be another guy who could be ticketed
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: for ir and then you've got the two receivers at
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: the top is great speedy return for parker washington with
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: seemingly no ill effects fantastic jacoby myers we saw him
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: a week ago with the wrap on his thumb hasn't
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: practiced since they're they're downplaying the significance of it but
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: you know still like to know that he's going to
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: be okay and of course brian thomas jr who had
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the spectacular uh big catch against the Buccaneers to start
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: the joint practice and then hurt his shoulder and another
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: rep or so and he came out and but he
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: did show up the next day in a non-contact jersey
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: at least catching the football.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah he was catching routes routes versus air catching the
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: ball looking good not favoring anything he had a you
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: know red jersey on which made no contact but I
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: like what I saw as far as that's concerned and
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: here's what it's done too when those guys are sitting
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: on the sideline going through rehab you're getting Josh Cameron
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: you're getting Williams, those guys are getting snaps in two minutes.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: They're getting snaps in that very first quarter of the
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: last game against Carolina. opportunities present themselves.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Well, and you look at those guys, Cameron and C.J.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Williams not playing tonight. So you think that means they're
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: safely ensconced on the 53-man roster.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: And I think that will be the case.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: But then, man, you look at it and you're like,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I would have liked to have seen one game where
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: they went off like Michael Wortham in the first couple
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: of preseason games. But I do think the top five
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: receivers are pretty good.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And that's not including Travis Hunter, you know, who has
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: a foot in both worlds.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Obviously so uh well you know let's.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: See let's keep them healthy now i think the one
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: guy we got to mention again jalen mcleod coming back
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: from injury you know he hasn't had a chance to
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: be on the football field for the jacksonville jaguars much
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: at all since.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: He was drafted well and that's that's a factor for
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: sure you know again being durability is a factor how
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: good how healthy are you to play But he was
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: out there tonight and made the most out of it
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: in terms of a very productive outing for him.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Well, they think he has some special skills hunting the.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Quarterback, right? And he just hasn't had a chance to
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: show it.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: So for him, even though he didn't get the sack tonight,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: he had a quarterback hit.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: He had the tackles. He was active.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: He was around the ball. We'll see where that ends
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: up putting him as final cut down comes Sunday at
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern time.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: All right, folks, coming up next, we'll preview the bye week, coach.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: We got a nice weekend off. We'll talk about what
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: the Jags will do over the next couple weeks. to
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: get ready for the Cleveland Browns. Mike Dempsey and Mark
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Dunker from the Hyundai Studios. And, of course, the Jacksonville
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Jaguars winning this one by a score of 19 to nothing.
• 39:42
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• 39:49
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• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Duffner from the Hyundai Studios. As we get ready to
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: wrap things up, Coach, I'm kind of kidding saying we're
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: going to preview the bye week, but the Jags now
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: will have two weeks, you know, cut down Sunday. They'll
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: know who the team is. They'll know who the roster is.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Your experience, you've been in the league, but it's different.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: You didn't used to have that week gap in there.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: So from a coaching standpoint, how do you expect the
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: first of these two weeks to be handled?
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Mike, that's a great question, and I really think that
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: this staff will focus still on fundamentals and technique, continue
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: to clean up things that they need to, you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: whether it's false starts, touchdowns, jumping off sides, the little
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: things that get you beat. I think they'll really work
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: hard on trying to clean up the penalties, which they did,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: in fact, tonight, a better job. But I think they'll
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: work on that in terms of the execution. And then
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: anything they thought that they liked that maybe they want
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: to see a little bit more of, maybe in the
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: running game or something in the passing game, a concept
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: or two that they maybe didn't get enough snaps or
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: a better look at, that'll come into play too. Real
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: good emphasis on special teams. That'll happen too in terms
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: of putting into, again, some of the drills that are
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: in terms of inside and front coverage drills, a lot
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: of fundamental work, I believe.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: And I think for this team, their attitude is that
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: they're here to win football games every single week, right?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: And that seems obvious, right?
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: But there are teams in different stages of development where,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I saw Miami, Jeff Halfley said, I think
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: earlier today, look.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: We're probably not going to be in position to win a.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Ton of games this year. This year is about development.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: That's not the case. Once we get to the regular season.
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, no.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: This becomes about the Cleveland Browns and the next opponent
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: and the next opponent, one after another.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: The development coach has a lot of it's taken place.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: And for these young guys who are good enough, fortunate
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: enough to make the 53, they've just got to take
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: advantage of all the reps because they're going to just
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: be a reduced amount. They're not going to get as
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: many opportunities going forward now.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: No question about it. And the fact that they've gotten them,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: and the good news is they have gotten a lot
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: of reps. A lot of it now is going to
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: be walkthrough and mental reps. And they've got to take
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: advantage of those. They've got to prepare. each and every
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: week like they're starting the game. They can't get lazy
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: and say, well, I'm not going to play very much
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: or something. No, they've got to prepare like they're the
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: starter because, again, anything can happen. Sharpen the edge every
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: single day.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: And we heard earlier when Liam Cohen was talking with
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Kai Stevens that Liam said that, hey, I took the
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: offensive players today who I knew were not playing tonight,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: and we sat and watched film with a 50-play Cleveland
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: cut-up to get them ready for what Cleveland's going to
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: try to do to you defensively. So you're juggling a
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: lot of things right now as a head coach. You're
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: trying to prepare for tonight. You're preparing for your game
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: in a couple weeks. You're preparing for roster cutdowns. And
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: maybe a lot of that work is already done, but
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: you're preparing for the week of practice and all the
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: plan for each day.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: So, you know, a lot of balls in the air
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. I promise you, the coaching staff right now,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: they're working on scouting reports. They're working on teach tapes.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: They're working on installation in terms of a lot of it.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: based on the game plan they're going to put together
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: for Cleveland. They're looking at their personnel. They've been studying
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: the preseason games. They've been looking at Baltimore's offense from
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: last year. So Atlanta's defense, where Rudy came from, their
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator up there. There's been a lot of study
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: going on in preparation for this opening game.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: All right, this one's in the books, folks, and that
• 43:19
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• 43:26
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• 43:44
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