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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 211 | Bills vs. Jaguars Wildcard Predictions · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Zermline, Kinai, Stevens, Brian Sext and John
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Speaker 1: Osier with me today as we get ready for wild
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Speaker 1: Card weekend. It's a playoff edition of the show and
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Speaker 1: we're very excited to get things going and talk about
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Speaker 1: that Buffalo Bills matchup on Sunday. Let's go over our
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Speaker 1: big things for you today, brought to you by GEHKA
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Speaker 1: Big thing Number one is gonna be be a bully.
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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about this team going out and
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Speaker 1: being physical as the line of scrimmage and elsewhere on
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Speaker 1: the football field, and not being intimidated in a game
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Speaker 1: where the Bills are very familiar with playoffs as of recently.
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Speaker 1: But Traves CPM talked a little bit about not letting
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Speaker 1: the game be bigger than what it is.
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Speaker 2: You just can't make it bigger than what it is.
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Speaker 2: I feel like some guys who haven't been in this
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Speaker 2: position might get to there and just kind of just
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Speaker 2: confue that anxiety with nervousness when you're just really excited
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Speaker 2: to just do something you love, you know, and like
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Speaker 2: just have the opportunity to just be in a pontime game.
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Speaker 2: Haven't everybody know what the whole football He's gonna be
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Speaker 2: watching this, So I feel like it will be very exciting.
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Speaker 2: So now we get opportunity to chances people who haven't
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Speaker 2: been seeing us, We get to show them who we are.
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Speaker 2: And so I feel like it just people confuse that
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Speaker 2: the anxiety for nervous is when they really decided for
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Speaker 2: the moment.
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Speaker 1: Right. I think the whole city's buzzing right now about
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Speaker 1: this game. And they haven't been in the playoffs the
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Speaker 1: past couple of years, but a lot of these players
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Speaker 1: remember that twenty twenty two game and that feeling. And
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Speaker 1: what I found interesting this time around is they won
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Speaker 1: the division, but it felt like, Okay, now, what's the
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Speaker 1: next thing. It wasn't just we're happy to be here.
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Speaker 1: There's definitely some experience there and some understanding that this
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Speaker 1: isn't the accomplishment. Continuing is the accomplishment.
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Speaker 3: Say with me, Kai, these Jaguars aren't those jaguars. There's
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Speaker 3: a completely different mentality in that locker room. And I
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Speaker 3: think the guy that we just heard from is going
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Speaker 3: to have a huge role in this team winning. On Sunday,
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Speaker 3: you see the sweat on his forehead that was a
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Speaker 3: sixty degree day in shorts and T shirts. The work
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Speaker 3: they got done, the energy with which they're approaching this
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Speaker 3: game is greater than the anxiety that some other teams
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Speaker 3: may have for playing in a big game like this.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, the biggest bully on the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: right now, the guy who has the biggest impact in
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Speaker 3: this game is going to be Devon Hamilton. Johnny's killing
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Speaker 3: people inside playing at such a high level. You want physical,
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Speaker 3: you want bully, you want disruptive. Devon Hamilton and Travis
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Speaker 3: etn are two of the most important players that will
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Speaker 3: play on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I think a couple of things.
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Speaker 4: I think people nationally because they see Trevor Lawrence, he's
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Speaker 4: the only people I'm sure he's the only thing people
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Speaker 4: talk about nationally. They see the hair, they see the touchdowns,
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Speaker 4: and they think, oh, this is a team that's high power,
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Speaker 4: this is a team that beats me. It's at its core,
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Speaker 4: this is a physical team that has gotten much more
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Speaker 4: better because he is ascended. And I do think even
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Speaker 4: some Jaguars fans and even some media are used to
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Speaker 4: this team sort of in twenty two. They got in
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Speaker 4: with a late playoff run. They kind of snuck in.
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Speaker 4: They came back on teams. This team, I liked the
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Speaker 4: headline on this segment, be the bully. This team is
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Speaker 4: far more a team that, Hey, we've been here, we
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Speaker 4: deserve to be here. We're gonna beat teams that try
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Speaker 4: to beat us. They're not trying to upset people.
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Speaker 1: Guy now, just trying to be a bully when you
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Speaker 1: have to be. Our second big thing today is gonna
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Speaker 1: be one verse one. Talked a ton about the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: run stop defense so far this season, but they're facing
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Speaker 1: off against James Cook, You're leading rusher in the league,
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Speaker 1: so it's gonna be one verse one. Devin really talked
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Speaker 1: about what they have to do on defense.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, anytime the quarterback is a runner that
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Speaker 6: presents challenges to the defense, whether it's design quarterback runs,
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Speaker 6: a quarterback scrambles, so I'm gotta have a good plan. Obviously,
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Speaker 6: I'm gotta have good rush lanes when he does scramble.
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Speaker 6: And then the quarterback design runs obviously pulling a guy
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Speaker 6: out the box. So they just gained an additional gap.
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Speaker 6: So guys got to strike blucks get off blucks and
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Speaker 6: make place well.
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Speaker 1: James Coush is a focus, but also Josh Allen can
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Speaker 1: run a little bit too. John And we know this
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Speaker 1: team has dealt with some quarterbacks rushing, so they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to be very focused and kind of keep containment
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Speaker 1: as well as focusing on James Cook.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think with both Cook and Allen, this is
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Speaker 4: a game where they're gonna get some of theirs. The
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Speaker 4: Jaguars about eighty five yards a game rushing. No. One
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Speaker 4: hundred yard rusher. It wouldn't surprise me if Cook pushes
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Speaker 4: a hundred. They're a really good running team. You can
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Speaker 4: tell by the way Liam was talking about it. He
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Speaker 4: really respects how they scheme things. They're hard to stop
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Speaker 4: the whole game. They're gonna get a driver to where
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Speaker 4: they're running the ball. I think the key Brian is
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Speaker 4: gonna be can you get out of that?
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Speaker 5: Can you stop that? Can you not have that? Dominate
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Speaker 5: the game?
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Speaker 4: And then when you have your opportunity to stop these guys,
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Speaker 4: put them in long yardage, take advantage there and get
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Speaker 4: off the field.
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Speaker 5: I think the Bills are gonna score.
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Speaker 7: I think the Jaguars are gonna score more.
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Speaker 3: The Bills average twenty eight points per game. They scored
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Speaker 3: more points in seventeen games than the Jaguars, and so
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Speaker 3: you know that this is a team that can do
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Speaker 3: what they want to do on offense. The question is
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Speaker 3: can you make them shift away from it a little bit?
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Speaker 3: Can you make them throw the ball more than they
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Speaker 3: run the ball. Here's why that's important. They are number
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Speaker 3: one in the league in time of possession, Kay, they're
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Speaker 3: number one on third down. They shrink the game, they
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Speaker 3: take possessions away from you. You've got to get them
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Speaker 3: out of the running game so that you can do
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Speaker 3: what you want to do. John mentioned the Jaguars will
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Speaker 3: score because they're one of the best offenses in football.
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Speaker 3: You're going to have fewer opportunities to be the best
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Speaker 3: offense in football if your defense can't.
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Speaker 7: Stop the run.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to our final big thing today, which is wildcard.
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Speaker 1: And I think going into this, Josh Allen's fon the
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Speaker 1: focus for both sides of this, and that's because he
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Speaker 1: can be the wildcard.
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Speaker 5: He can win a football game for a team.
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Speaker 1: Brian, this isn't the same Bills we've seen of past years,
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Speaker 1: though some different targets. It doesn't look quite the same,
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Speaker 1: but ken Josh Allen put on his tape.
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Speaker 5: And leave this game for them.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, without a doubt.
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Speaker 3: I mean he is stupendous. To use a word that
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Speaker 3: I haven't used to describe him this week. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the guy is he's this massive guy. First of all,
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Speaker 3: I asked Treyvon Walker yesterday about Josh Allen being bigger
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Speaker 3: than him, because he is. He's just a massive human being.
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Speaker 3: Trayvon looked at me, like, you don't think I can
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Speaker 3: stop him?
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Speaker 7: Like, no, no, I think you can.
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Speaker 3: But this guy is just physically a freak. He is
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Speaker 3: so big and can do so many different things. But
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Speaker 3: you know you mentioned this is a different Bills team.
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Speaker 3: And John, I mean, the Bills defense last year was really,
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Speaker 3: really good.
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Speaker 7: It's not that good this year.
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Speaker 3: Their passing game is not the scary down the field
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Speaker 3: passing game that it has been in years past. They
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Speaker 3: don't have Stefon Diggs and that speed that takes everyone
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Speaker 3: away from the line of scrimmage. This is the Josh
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Speaker 3: Allen And why did I just draw a blank on
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Speaker 3: the running back James Cook. It's those two guys.
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Speaker 7: They drive this whole thing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the answer is yes, that he can lift
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Speaker 4: a team. And it's an overused phrase these eight everyone's
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Speaker 4: everybody wants their quarterback to lift the team. He's one
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Speaker 4: of the guys who truly can. Again, I think the
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Speaker 4: key is they're going to score, you have to be
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Speaker 4: up on them and you have to have sort of
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Speaker 4: beaten them up a.
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Speaker 5: Little bit where they don't want to run anymore. They're
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Speaker 5: not running his effectively.
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Speaker 4: Get him in long yardage late, because he will throw
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Speaker 4: you the ball and he will take sacks that put
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Speaker 4: the team in bad down and distance. You have to
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Speaker 4: take advantage of the moments where you have the opportunity
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Speaker 4: to make them look bad.
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Speaker 3: It's worth mentioning. And I had a player who was
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Speaker 3: here remind me of this. In twenty twenty one, the
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Speaker 3: Bills came in off a huge Sunday night win over
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Speaker 3: Kansas City. In Kansas City against a team with the
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Speaker 3: rookie quarterback with Urban Meyer as the head coach. They
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Speaker 3: didn't do anything particularly well and the Jaguars won that
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Speaker 3: game nine to six, largely because Josh heinz Allen was
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Speaker 3: a menace to Josh Allen. If Josh heinz Allen has
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Speaker 3: that same kind of a game then I don't think
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Speaker 3: Josh Allen will be able to get after it like
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Speaker 3: he has this season.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely going to be one of the key Stay with
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Speaker 1: us here on Jagsama check in with the Bills team
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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Behind Enemy Lines where I
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Speaker 1: check in with a media member from the opposing team.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars are, of course made it into the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and they're taking on the Buffalo Bills, So I'm checking
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Speaker 1: with Maddi Glabb, team reporter for the Bills. My counterpart
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Speaker 1: Mattie's thank you for joining us, of course, happy to
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Speaker 1: be here and happy to be in the playoffs. Absolutely
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Speaker 1: same here, catch us up a little bit. We all
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Speaker 1: know a ton about Josh Allen all the crazy things
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Speaker 1: he can do. But what's the season been like as
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Speaker 1: a whole for you guys. Feels like it's been a
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Speaker 1: little bit different than years past.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been an up and down season, definitely a
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Speaker 8: ride at times. The Bills finished twelve and five in
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Speaker 8: the regular season, winning five of their last six. So
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Speaker 8: the second half of the season for team, I think
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Speaker 8: they've really built their identity who they are. They've been
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Speaker 8: known for their second half comebacks all season, but I
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Speaker 8: think have done a fantastic job of putting things together
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Speaker 8: in the second half of the season, both offensively and defensively.
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Speaker 8: The Bills have struggled on the road this year though,
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Speaker 8: five and three record on the road, but winning their
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Speaker 8: last three games on the road, and you've seen the
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Speaker 8: offensive production improve on the road to end the regular season.
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Speaker 8: The defense has been pretty strong on the road all year,
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Speaker 8: so it'll be interesting to see if the defense can
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Speaker 8: travel in the playoffs as well. But yeah, like you said,
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Speaker 8: it's been an interesting season with the Bills. Josh Allen
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Speaker 8: coming off of that MVP campaign and he's shown how
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Speaker 8: he's grown in several areas this year. But the offense
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Speaker 8: as a whole, his looks a little bit different. It's
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Speaker 8: been James Cook running the show. You're rushing title leader,
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Speaker 8: and the offensive line helping set things up. So that's
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Speaker 8: kind of been the engine of the offense this year.
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Speaker 8: Is that rushing attack, which I I know we're going
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Speaker 8: to talk more about, because the Jaguars have the best
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Speaker 8: to run defense, but it's been James Cook and Josh Allen,
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Speaker 8: and Josh Allen has had a wide variety of guys
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Speaker 8: to throw the ball to. There hasn't been that number
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Speaker 8: one receiver, which helps when it comes to going up
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Speaker 8: against different defenses because you're not sure who's going to
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Speaker 8: be catching the ball in any given game.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's talk a little bit about James Cook.
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Speaker 5: You mentioned him.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have the best run defense. They haven't allowed a
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Speaker 1: seventy five yard rusher so far this season, something they've
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Speaker 1: been hanging their hat on. But what I think is
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Speaker 1: unique about the Bills, of course, is James Cook is
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Speaker 1: having an amazing season, but Josh Allen can also get
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Speaker 1: out and run if he needs to. And I think
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Speaker 1: does you feel like that dynamic has helped the offense
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Speaker 1: be successful this season?
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Speaker 8: Definitely. The Bills lead the league in total rushing yards
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Speaker 8: and James Cook and Josh Allen made up for two
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Speaker 8: two hundred of those yards, which is eighty one percent
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Speaker 8: of the total number. So those two together, Yes, James
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Speaker 8: Cook has had a heavy dose of that, going six
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Speaker 8: twenty one on the grid throughout the whole year, But
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Speaker 8: you can't forget about Josh Allen, and I think the
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Speaker 8: pair of those two together is really what makes this offense,
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Speaker 8: I should say, hard to defend when it comes to
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Speaker 8: going up against defenses because you have James Cook who
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Speaker 8: has turned into this fantastic running back, and not just
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Speaker 8: in doing the same thing over and over again. He's
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Speaker 8: really good at read and reading and reacting to what's
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Speaker 8: happening on the field. His offensive line in him are
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Speaker 8: best friends on the field. They do a fantastic job
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Speaker 8: of communicating and finding out where those open spots are
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Speaker 8: gonna be on the field. But then if you're gonna
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Speaker 8: stack the box against the Bills because they're running the football,
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Speaker 8: Josh Allen can go in the air. And if then
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Speaker 8: you're gonna drop some guys back, then Josh Allen can
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Speaker 8: take it himself. So in any way that a defense
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Speaker 8: presents itself, I think Buffalo can find answers whether be
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Speaker 8: on the ground or in the air, and Josh Allen
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Speaker 8: certainly can.
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Speaker 1: Do both very well. The Jags defense has a lot
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Speaker 1: to plan for with you guys, and I know when
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Speaker 1: you said there's tons of weapons, you don't necessarily know
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Speaker 1: there's a go to place. The Jaguars have had trouble
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Speaker 1: with tight ends, and you guys have two of them
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Speaker 1: that are very talented, Dalton Kinkaid. What do they bring
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Speaker 1: to the offense. What kind of dynamic plays can they
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Speaker 1: make to kind of open things up as well?
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Speaker 8: Dawson Knox and don Kin Kaid this season have been
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Speaker 8: sharing duties because don Kin Kid has not been in
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Speaker 8: the lineup every single game. He missed Week seventeen with
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Speaker 8: a knee injury, was actually limited in practice on Wednesday
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Speaker 8: with that knee injury. Played in Week eighteen, now not
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Speaker 8: the full game, but got some good reps in there.
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Speaker 8: I think the coaching staff just wanted to see how
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Speaker 8: he was doing and how he could hold.
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Speaker 1: Up for the playoffs.
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Speaker 8: But when dal Kin Kaid or Dawson Knox is on
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Speaker 8: the field, I think it presents challenges to a defense
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Speaker 8: because defending a tight end is hard. You have to
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Speaker 8: figure out who am I going to put on the
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Speaker 8: field to go up against this tall, burly man and
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Speaker 8: figure out, you know, who's going to run with somebody
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Speaker 8: like this because they have the height, they have the size.
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Speaker 8: You have to be particular in how you're going to
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Speaker 8: do that, and donkin Kaid has been fantastic at burning
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Speaker 8: defenses when he's on the field this year. He has
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Speaker 8: a one forty nine passer rating when targeted that leads
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Speaker 8: tight ends in the NFL this season. Him and Josh
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Speaker 8: Allen have a great rapport with each other. The issue
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Speaker 8: this season for Kincaid has been the consistency he's been
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Speaker 8: on and off the field due to injury. Seems to
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Speaker 8: be in an okay place right now, especially just being
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Speaker 8: limited to start the practice week. We'll see how he
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Speaker 8: goes on and practices throughout the rest of the week.
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Speaker 8: But in his place, Knox has really stepped up this season.
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Speaker 8: He's been targeted a lot more in the second half
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Speaker 8: of the season, and he's answered with some big games
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Speaker 8: in terms of catching the ball in some big games.
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Speaker 8: In terms of scoring the ball, I think when you're
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Speaker 8: targeting the tight ends in a red zone, it's an
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Speaker 8: absolute mismatch because you're throwing the ball into tight windows
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Speaker 8: and tight ends have that size, which is definitely an
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Speaker 8: advantage for Buffalo's offense for sure.
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Speaker 1: I know you guys have been very successful on third downs.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's part of it. Let's talk a little
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Speaker 1: Bills defense. The Jaguars have really kind of come into
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Speaker 1: their own with Trevor Lawrence's play the last two months
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Speaker 1: or so in the past game specifically, but today head
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Speaker 1: coach Liam Cohen and the Jaguars was very complimentary the
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Speaker 1: Bills pass defense and kind of what they've been able
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Speaker 1: to do. What's some of the strengths of the secondary
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Speaker 1: you've seen.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, secondary finishes as the best in the league, allowing
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Speaker 8: under one hundred and sixty passing yards per game, and
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Speaker 8: that's something the secondary really hangs their hat on, is
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Speaker 8: proud to go into the postseason putting up numbers like
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Speaker 8: that throughout the season. I think what's happened, and again
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Speaker 8: I go back to the second half of the season,
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Speaker 8: because that's really when the defense started to put it together.
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Speaker 8: They started to play a lot more physical, a lot
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Speaker 8: more nasty, forcing more takeaways. Since Week twelve their top
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Speaker 8: ten in takeaways with fifteen, and a lot of that
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Speaker 8: is because the Russian coverage has started to work to together.
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Speaker 8: Our head coach Sean McDermott has talked about spinning the dial,
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Speaker 8: throwing different coverages at an offense throughout the game to
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Speaker 8: kind of confuse quarterbacks. You've seen corners being sent on
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Speaker 8: more blitzes and it paying off in terms of pass
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Speaker 8: deflections that have been gone for interceptions. So I think
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Speaker 8: that is kind of the foundation of why they've played
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Speaker 8: so well in the second half of the season. But
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Speaker 8: you have a great cornerback in Christian Benford and another
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Speaker 8: one in Tredevius White, who have been playing some really
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Speaker 8: great football down the stretch, really limiting teams receivers in
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Speaker 8: terms of yards allowed and passer rating allowed, those numbers
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Speaker 8: have been very low. And then on the back end,
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Speaker 8: you have two safeties in Jordan Poyer who's a thirteen
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Speaker 8: year safety and then Cole Bishop, who's a second year
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Speaker 8: safety that's really been learning this year. But once those
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Speaker 8: two got on the field together, you saw Bishops kind
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Speaker 8: of iq and the way he's played has gone to
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Speaker 8: another level. You've seen him played a lot more fierce,
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Speaker 8: a lot more nasty, and he's been up there at
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Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage at times making plays. So I
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Speaker 8: think they've just been on the field long enough together
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Speaker 8: at this point in the season where they seem like
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Speaker 8: a very cohesive unit. They're communicating well, and that's turned
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Speaker 8: into really limiting opponents when it comes to the passing attack.
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Speaker 1: Very cool. I feel like we covered a lot. Do
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Speaker 1: you have an X factor player on maybe offense and defense?
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Speaker 1: You feel like we'll need to both have good games
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Speaker 1: if the Bills want to get a win.
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Speaker 8: We already talked about the offensive player. I'm looking at
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Speaker 8: Don Kinkaid. Buffalo's offense is a different offense when he
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Speaker 8: is healthy and on the field. I think he just
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Speaker 8: adds a different wrinkle to everything. He's another player you
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Speaker 8: have to worry about. He's another player you have to
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Speaker 8: steam for because when he's on the field, he's going
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Speaker 8: to make plays. It's already hard to defend Josh Allen
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Speaker 8: and James Cook, but throw Dnt Kincaid in there. That
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Speaker 8: gets even harder and you kind of have to commit
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Speaker 8: to one thing. And Buffalo has been able to beat
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Speaker 8: teams when they decide to commit to one thing because
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Speaker 8: they have a couple other things they can throw out
16:59
Speaker 8: a defense. In terms of what Buffalo's defense has to do,
17:03
Speaker 8: I don't think it's one player, but I really think
17:05
Speaker 8: it's the pass rush. Getting to Trevor Lawrence, the Jaguars
17:09
Speaker 8: have been fantastic during their win streak at scoring and
17:13
Speaker 8: outscoring opponents by like an average of nineteen points per game,
17:16
Speaker 8: which is such a big number in the league.
17:19
Speaker 1: You see so many games that are.
17:21
Speaker 8: One possession games, and it seems like, you know, down
17:24
Speaker 8: the stretch for the Jaguars, they've just been blowing teams out.
17:27
Speaker 8: I think a lot of it we hear from our
17:29
Speaker 8: head coach. A lot of it starts in the trenches,
17:31
Speaker 8: and on defense, it starts with a pass rush. So
17:33
Speaker 8: I think it's those guys upfront playing together and not
17:37
Speaker 8: being afraid to rush the passer and making sure they're
17:40
Speaker 8: communicating with a back end. I think if they can
17:43
Speaker 8: do that and kind of tee off a little bit
17:45
Speaker 8: in the beginning of the game, they might be able
17:47
Speaker 8: to find ways and find opportunities to get some takeaways,
17:51
Speaker 8: which I know the Jaguars all season have done a
17:53
Speaker 8: really good job at taking care of the football and
17:55
Speaker 8: then forcing takeaways on the other.
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Speaker 1: Side, very good. I think it's gonna be a good
17:59
Speaker 1: matchup for wild Card weekend. Maddy, I will see you
18:01
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Speaker 5: I'm welcome to this future.
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Speaker 7: We're going to do our.
18:26
Speaker 1: Best to predict what we will be talking about on
18:28
Speaker 1: Monday morning after wild Card weekend, Ryan, what do you
18:32
Speaker 1: think is gonna go down on Sunday?
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Speaker 3: I think on Monday people will finally believe that these
18:37
Speaker 3: Jaguars aren't those Jaguars. As I listened to Liam Cohen
18:40
Speaker 3: postgame Monday Wednesday, as I talked to his assistant coaches yesterday,
18:45
Speaker 3: for instance, Shane Waldron, and I listened to the way
18:48
Speaker 3: that they all talk in unison, and they all have
18:50
Speaker 3: the same high standard for what they expect on the
18:54
Speaker 3: practice field translating to the game field.
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Speaker 7: I didn't these games are built for this.
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Speaker 3: Liam was part of last year's great run by the Buccaneers,
19:04
Speaker 3: and before that, you know the great run that the
19:07
Speaker 3: championship Rams have had, and a lot of these guys
19:10
Speaker 3: have been put together because of their expectations and their experience,
19:15
Speaker 3: and John, just the more I listen watch, the more
19:19
Speaker 3: I learn that they're built for this moment right now.
19:22
Speaker 7: Thirteen to four is great.
19:23
Speaker 3: They transitioned the Jaguars from a team that didn't win
19:26
Speaker 3: to a team that does win, and now the playoffs
19:29
Speaker 3: are the ultimate test of that. And I think on
19:31
Speaker 3: Monday morning, people will be excited about the future, not
19:34
Speaker 3: just January into February, but the long term future because
19:38
Speaker 3: Liam Cohen is built for this moment.
19:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're a good team that's going to
19:43
Speaker 5: be a good team for a long time. I agree
19:46
Speaker 5: with you, and sort of blends into what I said earlier.
19:49
Speaker 4: There's this because they're in the playoffs and for the
19:53
Speaker 4: first time in a couple of years, because they had
19:55
Speaker 4: this big turnaround. It's like people are looking at this
19:59
Speaker 4: team as it's like the little engine that could. You know, Hey,
20:02
Speaker 4: we're gonna we're rudy, We're gonna punch up. And I
20:06
Speaker 4: think this team feels like it's punching down and I
20:08
Speaker 4: think they feel like they're the best team going in
20:10
Speaker 4: they're not bragging about it, They're not, you know, guaranteeing anything,
20:15
Speaker 4: But I think internally they have a lot of confidence of, Hey,
20:18
Speaker 4: we're you know, we're supposed to be here. We're gonna
20:20
Speaker 4: win this thing. We just went out and beat the
20:21
Speaker 4: number one seat on the road. But why shouldn't we
20:23
Speaker 4: believe we're the best team.
20:24
Speaker 3: Apologize when I say built for this, they're not even
20:28
Speaker 3: quite built for this yet. I mean the things they're
20:30
Speaker 3: going to do with this roster after they've had a
20:32
Speaker 3: year with it to decide, you know, who belongs here,
20:35
Speaker 3: what else they need here, what this roster will be
20:38
Speaker 3: in another season or two as they continue to build it,
20:41
Speaker 3: I think is even more exciting.
20:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, I couldn't read more.
20:44
Speaker 4: It's I went with one and on and it's a
20:47
Speaker 4: boring headline for a reason, because I think this will
20:53
Speaker 4: feel like a methodical victory. I think they're gonna win,
20:56
Speaker 4: and by methodical, I don't mean like seventeen to fourteen.
21:00
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a high scoring game.
21:01
Speaker 4: But then once they win it, and I do think
21:04
Speaker 4: they will, I think the players are gonna all say afterward,
21:07
Speaker 4: we like, don't treat this like an upset again. We're
21:12
Speaker 4: not rudy, We're not punching up. I think it's gonna
21:14
Speaker 4: feel very okay. We want let's let's figure out what's next.
21:18
Speaker 4: Are we going to New England?
21:19
Speaker 7: Are we going you know?
21:20
Speaker 5: Are we going here? I think that will be the
21:24
Speaker 5: tone of the day once they win this game, and
21:27
Speaker 5: I do think they will win it, but I don't
21:29
Speaker 5: think it'll be easy.
21:31
Speaker 1: I'm going with for mine focusing on I think the
21:34
Speaker 1: matchup we've all been talking a little bit about, which
21:36
Speaker 1: is James Cook the number one rusher against the Daguars defense,
21:39
Speaker 1: which is the number one run stopping defense, and with
21:42
Speaker 1: what's cooking? Because I think I think there's a chance
21:46
Speaker 1: that this can be what normally when we talk about
21:50
Speaker 1: matchups sometimes that doesn't end up being the focus. I
21:52
Speaker 1: do feel like this will be the focus. Whether James
21:55
Speaker 1: Cook can get going, he might get some he might
21:57
Speaker 1: finally break that seventy five yard mark that they've been
22:00
Speaker 1: really excited about. But I think there's an opportunity for
22:03
Speaker 1: Devon Hamilton and Eric arms Staid, who's been having phenomenal years.
22:06
Speaker 1: It might as well quote Josh heinz Allen and say,
22:09
Speaker 1: guess nose tackle in the game. According to him, Devon
22:11
Speaker 1: Hamilton has been playing amazing and there's the Bill's offensive
22:15
Speaker 1: line is obviously tremendous. They've you don't have the leading
22:18
Speaker 1: rusher without having a great offensive line. But I think
22:21
Speaker 1: there's some spots in the interior offensive line. Gators fans
22:25
Speaker 1: Noahsi restorants there's an ability there. I think with the
22:28
Speaker 1: athleticism of Eric Arms said that we've seen this season
22:31
Speaker 1: going back to his natural position, also lining Trayvon Walker
22:33
Speaker 1: up on the inside at times, I think there's some
22:36
Speaker 1: positioning in there where they can take advantage of and
22:39
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback and the running back in the backfield.
22:42
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be something maybe people don't
22:44
Speaker 1: expect and we have seen in the past few weeks,
22:48
Speaker 1: but I think that might be a surprise to some
22:50
Speaker 1: other teams.
22:50
Speaker 5: Sit the edges on this game.
22:51
Speaker 7: It's gonna be very important.
22:53
Speaker 4: Uh the Bills run well inside, that also run well outside.
22:56
Speaker 4: One thing that I I it doesn't get noticed cause
22:59
Speaker 4: it's not a very sexy thing.
23:00
Speaker 5: To talk about.
23:00
Speaker 4: The Jaguars cornerbacks they tackle well on the edge. It's
23:05
Speaker 4: going to be a game where the Jaguars linebackers. You
23:08
Speaker 4: have to play with great discipline against the Bills. It's
23:11
Speaker 4: about filling the gaps you're supposed to be in. James
23:14
Speaker 4: Cook is a guy that if you let one outside,
23:17
Speaker 4: he's standing in the end zone. So it's a high
23:19
Speaker 4: pressure game for the Jarras. But they're a good tackling
23:22
Speaker 4: team and they play well as a unit. I think
23:24
Speaker 4: that bodes well against this team.
23:26
Speaker 3: And since you mentioned Trayvon, had a long conversation with
23:28
Speaker 3: him yesterday and I told you earlier about the look
23:30
Speaker 3: he gave me when I said, how do you take
23:32
Speaker 3: a guy a quarterback that's that big?
23:34
Speaker 7: It kind of looked at me like what.
23:36
Speaker 3: But I asking about James Cook because James played with
23:39
Speaker 3: him of Georgia, and I expected that we just do
23:43
Speaker 3: what we do because that's what most.
23:45
Speaker 7: Of them do. But this was a number one run defense.
23:49
Speaker 3: And when he said that, we just play our game,
23:52
Speaker 3: and when we play our game the way we play
23:55
Speaker 3: run defense, we stop everybody.
23:57
Speaker 7: And that's been the case this year. They've stopped everybody.
23:59
Speaker 3: The only guy who had any semblance of a good
24:01
Speaker 3: day against them was Jonathan Taylor, and he had seventy
24:05
Speaker 3: and seventy four yards. So when tray Vine said we
24:07
Speaker 3: just have to do what we do, it had kind
24:09
Speaker 3: of a different tone, a different ring to it than
24:12
Speaker 3: in previous conversations.
24:14
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Speaker 5: It's nicer here.
24:43
Speaker 2: Everything, guys, is still in front of us.
24:49
Speaker 1: Or not more.
24:52
Speaker 7: Sucks down. I think you definitely carry momentum from playing
24:56
Speaker 7: well for.
24:57
Speaker 9: Sure, earning to playing meaningful games in November and December. Guys,
25:08
Speaker 9: we can earn this right.
25:10
Speaker 6: You can feel that these opportunities get bigger and bigger
25:13
Speaker 6: leader in the season.
25:14
Speaker 7: The Jackson and Jaguars, they're not a playoff caliber team.
25:16
Speaker 7: They're not a playoff calibrity model for seeing them get
25:18
Speaker 7: to the playoffs.
25:19
Speaker 5: There's a lot of Oh, you don't even think they're
25:21
Speaker 5: gonna get it.
25:21
Speaker 7: I don't think they're gonna get it. They're just an
25:23
Speaker 7: in the way team. Keep doubting this. I'm gonna show
25:26
Speaker 7: up every Sunday and you got a players.
25:30
Speaker 9: Every day to tell me our performance, people, organization, and city.
25:36
Speaker 2: They've won the division titled one of the greatest seasons
25:40
Speaker 2: in the history of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
25:47
Speaker 7: It feels good for us to earn that as a team.
25:49
Speaker 7: But there's a lot more for us.
25:52
Speaker 1: Fly this episode coming up to night at seven, Let's go.
25:55
Speaker 4: You're ready?
25:56
Speaker 5: Good twice in football?
25:58
Speaker 7: All right? Here you go, all ready, And it's so
26:02
Speaker 7: much fun at this time. I mean, this scene hasn't
26:04
Speaker 7: lost since November the ninth.
26:06
Speaker 3: Winning is fun, and you got through the holidays, which
26:09
Speaker 3: is that fun time of year anyway, with a great
26:11
Speaker 3: football team.
26:12
Speaker 7: And now it gets even better because the playoffs start.
26:14
Speaker 7: Are you right?
26:15
Speaker 5: I'm ready to listen Jackson's typeout.
26:19
Speaker 7: Hit some people.
26:20
Speaker 1: If you haven't got your ticket, out of the way,
26:22
Speaker 1: no more fighting, more fighting, gentlemen, this is happy time.
26:25
Speaker 1: If you haven't got your ticket for Sunday, I don't
26:27
Speaker 1: know how you're gonna get one, but you should try
26:28
Speaker 1: to get into the stadium some way, somehow, because it's
26:30
Speaker 1: going to be fun. And I yes, this is my
26:33
Speaker 1: first playoff game, and well I'm very excited.
26:35
Speaker 7: Well then maybe what I'm gonna say makes sense.
26:37
Speaker 3: If you just happen to be driving through a school
26:40
Speaker 3: zone today on your way, you'll see it down that's limits.
26:44
Speaker 3: But one of the fun things for me is to
26:47
Speaker 3: drive by school and see all the kids in their
26:50
Speaker 3: Jaguars gear.
26:51
Speaker 7: Right. I mean, it's just everybody all the way.
26:53
Speaker 5: Down to everybody walking their dogybody else.
26:56
Speaker 7: It's just it's amazing to see the Jaguars spirit.
26:59
Speaker 3: And it's why I've said since nineteen ninety four when
27:02
Speaker 3: it hit me what a great football town this is,
27:05
Speaker 3: that this can be Green Bay of the South, This
27:07
Speaker 3: can be title town of the South. We lack a title,
27:11
Speaker 3: but when this team in this town for all of
27:14
Speaker 3: the way people look at it and want to disparage
27:16
Speaker 3: it and it's small and it's Jacksonville, the waffle house
27:19
Speaker 3: comments from the Super Bowl, from all the New England
27:22
Speaker 3: media back in two thousand and five, none of it
27:24
Speaker 3: matters because this team in this town are united and
27:27
Speaker 3: you get a title. This is Green Bay of the South,
27:29
Speaker 3: and it becomes it becomes a destination place for people
27:33
Speaker 3: to come watch Jaguars games.
27:35
Speaker 5: Oh hate some waffle House.
27:36
Speaker 1: Now, listen, I'm a convert, and I think most people
27:39
Speaker 1: and knowing them, just don't understand the beauty of the
27:41
Speaker 1: waffle house.
27:42
Speaker 5: I've been converted.
27:43
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful establishment. And I hope we get to
27:45
Speaker 1: go on Sunday night.
27:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is I mean, we should do this show
27:47
Speaker 3: at a waffle house. If they win the Super Bowl.
27:49
Speaker 3: We're all lokey sponsorship people want to get on this one.
27:52
Speaker 5: Absolutely. All right, you guys, that's it for us this week.
27:55
Speaker 5: Enjoy the game.
27:56
Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun one on Sunday, and
27:57
Speaker 1: we'll be back on Monday to talk all about hopefully
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