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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: December 4 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I A. A. Bank J. P. Shadrick with you
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Speaker 1: and today is Friday, December four and Week thirteen is here.
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Speaker 1: The Jags visit the Minnesota Vikings this Sunday. We've got
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Speaker 1: plenty to review from a busy week, including the aftermath
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Speaker 1: of the firing of general manager Dave Caldwell. Head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Marrone heaps praise on rookie running back James Robinson.
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Speaker 1: Plus Beth Moens of CBS Sports will be the first
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Speaker 1: woman to call it Jaguars game on TV or radio.
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Speaker 1: She shares her influences and the drive it takes to
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Speaker 1: work in sports television. Let's start with the biggest news
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Speaker 1: of the week. In the aftermath of the week twelve
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Speaker 1: loss to the Browns, Jaguars owners shot con fired general
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Speaker 1: manager Dave Calledwell. He joined the organization back in On
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Speaker 1: a Monday conference call, Head coach Doug Marrone reacted to
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Speaker 1: the news. You know, obviously we're struggling to win football games.
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Speaker 1: I think that we understand that obviously, it's a very
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Speaker 1: competitive business. I think that you know, we have an
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Speaker 1: owner that you know wants a good product for our fans,
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Speaker 1: wants to you know, wants to win. There's no mistake
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Speaker 1: about it. And we haven't done it. And I think
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Speaker 1: that when those things happen, um, these types of decisions
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Speaker 1: are gonna be made. Uh. Dave and I had a
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Speaker 1: good relationship, you know. You know it's not like you know,
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Speaker 1: we haven't been through this before meeting. You know, people
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Speaker 1: that have been in the league. You know, it's obviously unfortunate,
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Speaker 1: but um, you know, it is part of the profession
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Speaker 1: and we wish you know, like I said, I spoke
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Speaker 1: to Dave, and you know I wish him and his
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Speaker 1: family the best of luck. We had a good relationship.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's it's very difficult, and you know my
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Speaker 1: focus right now is not on all the things that
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Speaker 1: maybe going on on the outside, but you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to get the team and win football games, and um
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Speaker 1: be there for the coaches and the players and do
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Speaker 1: my best job there. On Jaguar's Happy Hour Monday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: Pete Frisco, Tony Boselli and I discussed the change. Is
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Speaker 1: it too late, is it too early? Is it on time?
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Speaker 1: Is there ever a time? Well, you can understand why
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Speaker 1: they did it. Now you look around the league. The
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Speaker 1: Lions just did it, blew out the GM and coach.
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Speaker 1: The Texans have already done it. They're looking for a
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Speaker 1: general manager UM and a coach, and the Falcon Falcons right,
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Speaker 1: So now you're you're in a race trying to identify
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Speaker 1: the best guy to fill that position who will then
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Speaker 1: hire his coach. And Doug Morone is staying. And I
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Speaker 1: think in my mind part of the reason he's staying
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Speaker 1: is when they fired Gus Bradley, Doug Morone came on
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Speaker 1: as the interim coach and he beat the Titans, I think,
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Speaker 1: and and played close against the Colts and they had
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Speaker 1: some life and then they decided to keep them. Well,
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Speaker 1: this gives them no option of keeping anybody. You can't
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Speaker 1: make Jay Gruden or somebody the interim coach and he
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Speaker 1: can win a couple of games, a ruined the draft
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Speaker 1: pick and give himself some credibility. Now you're just gonna
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Speaker 1: start from scratt Now, I think you go and everybody
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Speaker 1: goes after the season. You start from the bottom and
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Speaker 1: retool the whole thing. Well is the first is dead
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Speaker 1: on because you have I mean, you have four open
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Speaker 1: things forget about the coach for a second. I think
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Speaker 1: we can get in this later. I think you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have as many as eight openings for head coaches this year.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a bunch of them coming um and
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Speaker 1: so it's a race to get there. But before you
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Speaker 1: can even enter that race, you have destability at the
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Speaker 1: top of the house on the football side, who your
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Speaker 1: GM is and who's gonna be running and leading the
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Speaker 1: football side of the business. The Lions doing that and
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Speaker 1: even put more urgency because now you have four opened
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Speaker 1: the GM spots that you're gonna competing for. And I
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Speaker 1: think in a perfect world you'd like that GM in
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Speaker 1: place right after the season is over so you can
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Speaker 1: enter into the coaching carousel or the coaching race to
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Speaker 1: get your next guy. So I thought the timing was right.
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Speaker 1: You never like it. We're talking about people's livelihoods, and
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Speaker 1: Dave Caldwell has been around this organization. We all know him,
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Speaker 1: we have relationships with them, and so you never like it.
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Speaker 1: But Dave knows, I mean, this is a very I mean,
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Speaker 1: analytics have taken over this all sports and and some
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Speaker 1: people like it, some people don't. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: you know what the most most analytical thing you can
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Speaker 1: measure is wins and losses, and that's the only metric
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day that matters. And when
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Speaker 1: you're on the wrong side of the ledger and that
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Speaker 1: uh in that when you to measure that or that metric,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna end up getting fired. And that that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: So I think timing wise, I understand it. You're now
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Speaker 1: and for the race to fill that void and finding
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Speaker 1: the right guy to lead the football side of the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. I think the hundred losses and how that
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Speaker 1: became an issue last week kind of spurred on the
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Speaker 1: con family to do something. I mean, it's smart to
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Speaker 1: do it, but I think that was kind of the
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Speaker 1: impetus to get it going Tony, I really do. I
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Speaker 1: think from a pr standpoint, that's a terrible Look. What
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Speaker 1: do they that? What was it jp second quickest the
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Speaker 1: hundred losses in any owner in the NFL. And I
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Speaker 1: think he's the first one who didn't take over an
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Speaker 1: expansion team to get that. Fat is it wasn't the last.
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Speaker 1: The one who has the quickest was Culver House, right,
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Speaker 1: So when you look at that from that standpoint, It
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Speaker 1: really was one of those situations where I think they
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Speaker 1: reevaluated and said, look, we gotta start doing something to
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Speaker 1: turn the PR around. And and nobody plays PR campaigns,
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Speaker 1: But when you're the owner of the team and you're
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Speaker 1: that guy, you're gonna start doing something. So it was
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Speaker 1: the right look, it was the right thing to do
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Speaker 1: in terms of the timing. Why wait until the end
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Speaker 1: of the year, because you knew they were going to
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Speaker 1: do it at the end of the year. On Jaguar
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Speaker 1: Is Happy Our Wednesday afternoon, NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: started throwing out potential candidate names. Here's what I say,
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Speaker 1: and here's what I think is really really important. If
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Speaker 1: I had two or three minutes to talk to Shotgun,
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Speaker 1: what I would do is this, when you're looking to
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Speaker 1: hire someone to take over Jacksonville, look at someone that's
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Speaker 1: coming from an organization that has had to deal with
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Speaker 1: similar circumstances and challenges. Small market, not necessarily a major
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Speaker 1: market where you have all of the resources, you're having
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Speaker 1: to attract people to come here. It has to be
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Speaker 1: more of a homegrown model. Examples would be Green Bay, Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 1: Buffalo because those are unique circumstances. So I think it's
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Speaker 1: really important to understand what you're offering and selling and
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Speaker 1: where you are in terms of the landscape. I think
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Speaker 1: the big thing when when I think about the general manager,
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Speaker 1: general manager has to have a clear vision for how
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Speaker 1: to win games and how to make a team competitively
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Speaker 1: competitive year after year after year. As fans, we want
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Speaker 1: the team to be in the Super Bowl every year.
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Speaker 1: But I think a realistic thing is can I get
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Speaker 1: a team that consistently wins ten plus games a year?
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Speaker 1: Because ten plus games a year will put us in
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Speaker 1: the tournament and give us a shot. Then it's about
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Speaker 1: what is the model that we want to use. Are
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Speaker 1: we a homegrown model? Are we going to draft and
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Speaker 1: develop resign our players and those guys are going to
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Speaker 1: be our core? Are we going to spend money and
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Speaker 1: try and acquire free agents? All of that stuff matters
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Speaker 1: when I look at it. Jpu said, they come in
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Speaker 1: a couple of different things. You have the retra has
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Speaker 1: guys who've been experienced. You have the young upcoming guys,
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Speaker 1: and then you have guys that are coming from TV.
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Speaker 1: The Retrays I think offer some interesting names. John Dorsey
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Speaker 1: from Cleveland in Kansas City. We've seen what he's done.
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Speaker 1: His personality is a un little unique and you have
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Speaker 1: to be comfortable with that, but a great evaluator. Thomas Demetrough, Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: There may be some pause to do that because Dave
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Speaker 1: Calwell came from that. You may want to do something different.
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Speaker 1: I think Rick Smith could be an interesting candidate, not
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Speaker 1: only because he's been a GM before, but he's been
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Speaker 1: in that division. He understand the teams in that division.
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Speaker 1: And then I think I'll throw another name out, Scott Pioli.
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Speaker 1: He did it once in Kansas City. It didn't go well.
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Speaker 1: I think he's learned a lot and that could be
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Speaker 1: the challenge the young guys. That can be a bunch
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Speaker 1: of young guys. I'll though him out there quickly. Joe
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Speaker 1: Shane from Buffalo, assistant general manager, small market. We worked
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Speaker 1: together in Carolina. He's seen it done a few different ways.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Cowden, who was also in Tennessee. Young guy, Joe
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Speaker 1: Shane and him work together. That name would be floated out.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Hunt is a young play young developed uh director
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Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Stealers smaller market. And so those guys
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Speaker 1: are intriguing. And then in TV Is, Lewis, Riddick, Danner, Jeremiah.
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Speaker 1: Are those guys ready to handle all of the res
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Speaker 1: possibilities we hear their opinions or are they ready for
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Speaker 1: day through December eleven. Now to the quarterback Mike Glennan
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Speaker 1: will get to start for a second week in a row.
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Speaker 1: How did it go last week and how did he
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Speaker 1: find out he was starting again? Plus, Doug Brone said
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Speaker 1: that every position is week to weeks. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things made, some good throws and then few
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Speaker 1: throws to have back. You know, obviously you look at
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Speaker 1: those two two boy conversions and those could have been
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Speaker 1: different speakers in the games. So both players, you know,
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Speaker 1: wish you could have bad but that's part part of
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Speaker 1: the NFL. You got to move on to the next week.
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Speaker 1: As far as the conversation that Roly wasn't much. We
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Speaker 1: just told me we're going with you again this week.
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Speaker 1: I was left at that. As far as week week,
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Speaker 1: I mean I understand it. It's a performance based industry
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Speaker 1: and all those have shown flashes, and it's about consistency,
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Ashland Sullivan, she visits weekly with a few
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Speaker 1: Jaguars players. This week on Jaguars All Access Television, it's
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Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver Colin Johnson who took advantage of his
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Speaker 1: opportunity last week against the Browns. Colin Johnson coming off
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Speaker 1: a game with a touchdown at catch and Colin definitely
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Speaker 1: was more involved in than game plan last week. So
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Speaker 1: can we expect more big things from you? And how
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Speaker 1: do you prepare a week to week knowing your snap
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Speaker 1: counts may vary. Um. I just always try to prepare
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Speaker 1: the best I can, and that if I'm playing every
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Speaker 1: single play, So I assume I'm just gonna play every
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Speaker 1: play and just adjustin Cornley. So whether it's my job
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Speaker 1: to play ten plays that game or play the whole game,
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Speaker 1: I'll be ready. And it was interesting you mentioned in
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Speaker 1: your postgame press conference that you feel really comfortable with
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Speaker 1: quarterback Mike Glennon, who was starting again this week, and
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Speaker 1: it goes way back to training camp and a scout team.
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Speaker 1: It seems like maybe you, out of any wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: might have the most reps with him. Um, I definitely
11:08
Speaker 1: have a lot of reps with Mike, you know, since
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season until now, And it kind
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Speaker 1: of was just on display a little bit last Sunday
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Speaker 1: because you know, we've got so much work together. So um,
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Speaker 1: I heard he's you know, going to be starting again
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Speaker 1: this Sunday. You know, I'm I'm excited for him and
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Speaker 1: just excited to continue to try to make his job
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Speaker 1: easy by just catching the ball when he throws it
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Speaker 1: to me. And you were definitely giving high praise where
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Speaker 1: high praise is due to running back James Robinson, and
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Speaker 1: it seems like you and all the other teammates are
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Speaker 1: giving him praise because he's starting to get that national
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Speaker 1: attention of Pro Bowl and maybe Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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Speaker 1: But at least to me in the outside world, it
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Speaker 1: seems like he's the same, even keel guy and hasn't
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Speaker 1: changed because those accolades for sure. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: why he gains the respect of the locker room so much,
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Speaker 1: because just the ability to perform the way he does
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Speaker 1: and just continue to just work the way he does.
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Speaker 1: And um, always just a humble guy. And it's just
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Speaker 1: like I said, it's contagious to the guys in the
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Speaker 1: locker room. So he definitely deserves all the praise that's
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Speaker 1: coming his way. And um, he's just gonna continue to
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Speaker 1: keep balling the rest of the season and help this
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Speaker 1: team for sure. You said that you had lost the
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Speaker 1: touchdown ball from Sunday? Did you find it? I actually did?
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Speaker 1: Uh I found it. Well, George found it. Are e
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Speaker 1: Q guy and he's always on it man. So I
12:24
Speaker 1: thanked him personally for helping me out because it feels
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Speaker 1: like every time I score, I lose the ball and
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Speaker 1: then George saves me. So, um, I definitely have it
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Speaker 1: and it's in that It's in my closet and my
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Speaker 1: apartment too, So I got both my touchdown balls. Nice.
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Speaker 1: So what's the plan for the touchdown balls? You canna
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Speaker 1: make like a nice little shrine like a man cave.
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Speaker 1: What's the game plan there? For sure? You know, once
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Speaker 1: the day comes when I get a house, I'm obviously
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Speaker 1: going to dedicate you know, a room to just maybe
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Speaker 1: the jerseys I collected from you know, my my college
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Speaker 1: teammates or the guys I respect around the league over
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Speaker 1: the over years, and also just the touchdown balls, whatever
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Speaker 1: I want to put in there. But I'm definitely gonna
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Speaker 1: have a manque for it. Nice big plans coming for
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Speaker 1: Colin Johnson. Thanks much for joining us, of course, thank you. Actually.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars All Access air's Thursday nights at seven o'clock on
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Speaker 1: Fox thirty Television in Jacksonville. Let's get to this week's
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Speaker 1: match up. The one in ten Jaguars will try to
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Speaker 1: snap a ten game losing skid on the road in
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Speaker 1: Minnesota against the five and six Vikings. They've won four
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Speaker 1: of the last five and they need the game to
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Speaker 1: keep pacing the NFC wild Card picture. On Jack's Drivetime
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Speaker 1: Thursday morning, Ashland Sullivan, John Osan, and Brian Sexton visited
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Speaker 1: with Vikings team reporter Eric Smith for some insight to
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Speaker 1: their recent success. So, Eric, let's dive into this Vikings
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Speaker 1: team starting out one in five this season and now
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Speaker 1: in playoff conversation on a winning streak. What change for
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings that is this quick switch of now
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Speaker 1: starting from one in five to being in the thick
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Speaker 1: of things. Yeah, it's been a weird year. It's been
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Speaker 1: a roller coaster. Maybe that's kind of on par for
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Speaker 1: how has gone for all of that. Um, Like you said,
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Speaker 1: the Viking one in five and it was not a
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Speaker 1: good start. There were turnovers, the defense really struggled early on,
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Speaker 1: and they lost to the winless Falcons at home in
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Speaker 1: week six to go to one in five just before
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Speaker 1: the buy in week seven. So the method from coach
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Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer at the by was, Hey, let's get back
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Speaker 1: to who we are. Let's get back to being a hard,
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Speaker 1: you know, a physical, hard nosed, you know, tough team,
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Speaker 1: and let's let's go out and win some games. And
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Speaker 1: the team did that. They went out, they won three
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Speaker 1: division games in a row in Green Bay home against
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Speaker 1: Detroit and in Chicago, and that kind of got the
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Speaker 1: sales going a little bit in the right direction. So
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Speaker 1: now here we are, we're entering week thirteen, the Biking
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Speaker 1: will sit at five and six with five games to go,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to be a sprint to the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a wild ride and and who knows
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Speaker 1: what will happen. Given what has happened so far in Eric,
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Speaker 1: this team has been really good. A lot since you've
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Speaker 1: been there in the last month. Is it playing like
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Speaker 1: what Mike Zimmer would call a Vikings team? I mean,
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Speaker 1: is this up to their standard right now? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: would say so. And you know, if the one person
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Speaker 1: haven't talked about the bar Dalvin Cook. And you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, Coach number one, this team to
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Speaker 1: be a tough team, a physical team, and that include
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Speaker 1: running the ball, and that obviously starts with Dalvin Cook.
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Speaker 1: He is the focal point of the Vikings Doffhans for
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Speaker 1: even as well as Kirk Cousins has played, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the last month, Dalvin Cook is still the focal point.
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Speaker 1: And I think teams know that because they're really starting
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Speaker 1: to key in on him. It's definitely in the last
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Speaker 1: few games. But yeah, Coach Number wants the Vikings to
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Speaker 1: run the ball and then hit play action shot down
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Speaker 1: the field. And offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak kind of fits
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Speaker 1: that mold really well. And you know, he's had a
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Speaker 1: lot of success in his career, especially back in the
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Speaker 1: nineties with the Broncos winning Super Bowl with Terrell Davids
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Speaker 1: running the ball, and it kind of played right into
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Speaker 1: what the Vikings want to do. They want to run
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Speaker 1: the ball, hit shots on third down, and then play
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Speaker 1: good defense. Now it's on the Thursday nights Doug Moron Show.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Loghman and I asked the Jaguars head coach about
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Speaker 1: James robinson season so far, and he had nothing but
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Speaker 1: great things to say about his rookie running back. He's
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Speaker 1: been able to handle everything you've thrown at him so far.
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Speaker 1: He's just he's really truly an amazing person. You know
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Speaker 1: what I mean by that. It's just the consistency in him.
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Speaker 1: And he's a humble guy. You know, he really hasn't
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Speaker 1: changed his approach, you know, and when you look at
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Speaker 1: what he's been doing. I mean, you know, he did
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Speaker 1: it in high school, he did it in college, and
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Speaker 1: he's doing it here, you know. And for whatever reason, um,
16:26
Speaker 1: you know, we were giving him a little you know, nudge.
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Speaker 1: Today we're talking. I'm like, so what you were on
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Speaker 1: like for eight coming out of high school? I mean,
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Speaker 1: how could you not have been? I mean then I said,
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Speaker 1: you know, you had nine nine thousand yards. I mean
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Speaker 1: who has nine thousand yards in high school and doesn't
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Speaker 1: get any offers? You know? And so we you know,
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Speaker 1: he and he's so such a great kid about that.
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Speaker 1: But you know, he's been so consistent, he really has
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Speaker 1: and and I really feel that, you know, if we
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Speaker 1: were able to get you know, if our record was
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Speaker 1: different and we're able to get leads. I mean his numbers,
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Speaker 1: I mean, uh, he can be up there as far
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Speaker 1: as the top rusher really in the league. If you
17:01
Speaker 1: look at it now, he's gotten the third or fourth
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Speaker 1: most carries. And you know, you look at his yards
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Speaker 1: per carrying and it's outstanding, and you look at what
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Speaker 1: he does in the passing game. So I think that
17:12
Speaker 1: if it's you know, I'm sure he's not been exposed
17:15
Speaker 1: to a lot of our fans and a lot of
17:17
Speaker 1: people in the community. But I promise you this that
17:21
Speaker 1: you know when you meet him. Know he's a man
17:23
Speaker 1: of very few words, but uh, he has a great heart.
17:27
Speaker 1: He's bright as as can be. Um, he's always practices hard.
17:33
Speaker 1: I mean, he's everything that that that you would want.
17:36
Speaker 1: I really really can't say enough about him. I don't
17:39
Speaker 1: know at the end of the year what you know,
17:41
Speaker 1: not this year, but at the end of the day,
17:43
Speaker 1: what his career is gonna be. I wouldn't be surprised
17:46
Speaker 1: if if it's a long long, long career and a
17:49
Speaker 1: lot of great stats. But you know, we still have
17:51
Speaker 1: five games left then he still looks very good, and
17:54
Speaker 1: his totals have been going higher now because again, you know,
17:58
Speaker 1: it's one of the things we looked at early about
18:00
Speaker 1: you know, how much how much of how many touches
18:02
Speaker 1: should you have? And you know now it's getting more
18:04
Speaker 1: and more and and uh it's well deserved. The Duck
18:07
Speaker 1: Moron Show airs Thursday's at five o'clock on the Jaguars
18:10
Speaker 1: Radio Network. We closed this week's podcast with Beth Mullins.
18:14
Speaker 1: She'll be the first woman to call play by play
18:16
Speaker 1: of a Jaguars game when she puts on the headset
18:18
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars Vikings matchup this Sunday. We caught up
18:21
Speaker 1: this week for a public's Tailgate show interview. The extended
18:25
Speaker 1: version is available right now on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network,
18:29
Speaker 1: but here we discuss her influences and approach to a
18:32
Speaker 1: career in sports television. Do you consider yourself a pioneer
18:37
Speaker 1: of sorts? Or is that too heavy of a burden?
18:39
Speaker 1: You know what, I know that it means a lot
18:42
Speaker 1: um to other people and and hopefully is inspiring. Uh.
18:47
Speaker 1: Two young boys and girls that want to get into
18:50
Speaker 1: this business. And and I do realize, um that the
18:53
Speaker 1: significance of it, and I'm proud of that. Um. But
18:57
Speaker 1: from my perspective, it's always been my day to day.
19:00
Speaker 1: It's always been my dream job and and something that
19:04
Speaker 1: I've pursued with a lot of vigor ever since I
19:07
Speaker 1: was young. So uh, as you know what, while you're
19:10
Speaker 1: in it and and you're focused on the task at hand,
19:14
Speaker 1: that does make it a little easier sometimes to to
19:17
Speaker 1: block out a lot of the noise and then uh,
19:20
Speaker 1: perhaps JP go back afterwards and sort of embraced those
19:23
Speaker 1: moments and and sort of relish in the the history
19:26
Speaker 1: of it a little bit. What did you first realize
19:28
Speaker 1: that you wanted to do play by play? And how
19:31
Speaker 1: I mean it's obviously difficult for anybody but to move
19:34
Speaker 1: up the ladder, But what was the greatest challenge you
19:37
Speaker 1: faced when you first got in the business. Well, I always,
19:40
Speaker 1: uh like sports and I like talking, So there was
19:43
Speaker 1: a perfect blend. Um. Lucky enough that I grew up
19:47
Speaker 1: as a coach's kid, and I had three brothers and
19:51
Speaker 1: a neighborhood full of little kids that loved kickball and
19:54
Speaker 1: whiffleball and football and basketball, so there was an always
19:58
Speaker 1: always a game going on, and um I was always
20:01
Speaker 1: yacking away. I I wasn't a trash talker. I preferred
20:05
Speaker 1: to be much more descriptive in my verbiage. And so
20:09
Speaker 1: I knew from a young age and then uh mid
20:12
Speaker 1: seventies the old NFL Today Show with Phillis George. That
20:16
Speaker 1: was the first time, you know, the the old adage,
20:19
Speaker 1: if you see it, then you can believe it and
20:22
Speaker 1: and figure out a way to make it happen. And
20:23
Speaker 1: watching Phillis was the first indicator for me that it
20:27
Speaker 1: was something that I could do. And then it's just
20:30
Speaker 1: a matter of, um, you know, plowing forward with everything
20:33
Speaker 1: you've got the the other lucky break for better or worse.
20:36
Speaker 1: UM I never had anything else I wanted to do
20:39
Speaker 1: j B. So if there was a roadblock thrown in
20:41
Speaker 1: my way, it was just a matter of figuring out
20:43
Speaker 1: how to get under it, around it, through it, or
20:46
Speaker 1: over it and and continue on my way. UM. I
20:49
Speaker 1: was blessed to have a lot of great role models,
20:51
Speaker 1: most of them men. When I was first coming up
20:53
Speaker 1: that took a shine to me and wanted to share
20:56
Speaker 1: a lot of knowledge and information with me that that
20:59
Speaker 1: was greatly been official. So we're ready for the week
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Speaker 1: thirteen game, the one in ten Jaguars and the five
21:04
Speaker 1: and six vikings. On radio Sunday, the Public Selgate Show
21:08
Speaker 1: starts it off at ten o'clock. You'll hear the full
21:10
Speaker 1: conversation with Beth Mullins of CBS Sports, plus Jaguars safety's
21:14
Speaker 1: coach Joe Dana discusses calling plays on defense last week.
21:18
Speaker 1: At noon, Jaguars Radio Network coverage takes over with countdown
21:21
Speaker 1: to kickoff. It's a one o'clock kick time, and of
21:23
Speaker 1: course after the game, Jaguars post game with Yours truly
21:27
Speaker 1: Mike Dempsey and Fred Taylor, and then your calls and
21:29
Speaker 1: the school Board Show, as NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks joins,
21:32
Speaker 1: us have a fantastic weekend, Thank you for listening. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and we'll catch you next week on the Jaguars
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