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Mike Tirico on professional calmness & a unique Jaguars confidence | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: With the call of the game on NBC Sports. It's
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  Speaker 1: the great Mike Tarrico back with us. It has been
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  Speaker 1: a while since Canton, Ohio and the Hall of Fame game,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are in mid January. Mike, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Was that this season or ten seasons ago? You know,
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  Speaker 1: was Baselly planning back then or did he go in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame? What what a long year it's been.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we always know the length of our season,
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  Speaker 1: but for Jaguar fans to start at the very first
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  Speaker 1: game to be here as one of the final seven
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  Speaker 1: games of the season, that's pretty damn cool. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if we've seen, obviously historically many comebacks like that.
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  Speaker 1: There's only been two others that are bigger in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And but what happened last week is just unimaginable down
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  Speaker 1: minus five turnover margin that has never happened in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: This is an all timer for them to be in
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  Speaker 1: the divisional round, no doubt, no doubt. The picts are
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  Speaker 1: one thing. You know, the ball bouncing off the head
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  Speaker 1: of the gunner in special teams to force the fifth turnover.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're like, okay, it's it's not our night. Let's
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  Speaker 1: let's remember we want on the division, put a banner
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  Speaker 1: at the start of next season. Here we go, and
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  Speaker 1: then then the comeback begins. Which no, it's interesting when
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  Speaker 1: you really start to look at it now, JP over
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  Speaker 1: this season, a lot of comebacks have happened in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's an awareness with players. I think
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  Speaker 1: they know we can do this. We can get hot
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  Speaker 1: and maybe as much as any sport, even though it
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  Speaker 1: takes so long to score, and you really feel momentum
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  Speaker 1: build on a team, and when you get conservative on
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  Speaker 1: offense and you throw the ball as much as the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers do, it allows a comeback like Saturday night to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And Jackson Will took advantage of all of its opportunities
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  Speaker 1: all the way through the very end. It was a
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  Speaker 1: perfect storm, and the Tailors the beneficiaries of that. Now
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  Speaker 1: playing the Kansas City Chiefs, Mike to Rico with us
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  Speaker 1: from NBC, not only in that game but for the season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this team was three and seven after Week
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  Speaker 1: eleven and four games back in the division. It took
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  Speaker 1: not only them figuring it out on their own and
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback play and all that, but an epic collapsed
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  Speaker 1: by the Titans in the process. All that was a
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  Speaker 1: perfect storm. But like we talked about in the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame game, when we before that game, Doug Peterson's
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  Speaker 1: impact on this team and the culture around here, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing better to prove that the culture is right is
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  Speaker 1: these guys were out of it and they stayed. Stay
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  Speaker 1: to that, and to look at that in a more
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  Speaker 1: recent and granular way, I was looking at Doug Peterson's
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  Speaker 1: face when Trevor had interception three and then interception four,
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  Speaker 1: and Doug didn't panic. He didn't look angry, He wasn't huming,
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't, you know, TERFy, He wasn't you know, looking
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  Speaker 1: over saying we get c J warmed up here. It
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  Speaker 1: was a professional calmness, and that comes from being the
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  Speaker 1: guy who's played the position and knows that you've got
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  Speaker 1: to let the last one go and get to the
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  Speaker 1: next one. All time invested in football on what just
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  Speaker 1: happened takes away from full attention know what's going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and ends up hurting you. So I really thought that
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  Speaker 1: was a great manifestation of what we talked about in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason. People talking about with Doug over the years,
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  Speaker 1: a professional, experienced former quarterback. Most of the heck he's
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  Speaker 1: doing and knows that when rough waters come, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to be even more calm. And that transmits itself to
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  Speaker 1: this team. And I think he saw that on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night Mictko with us. Well, A lot of that comes
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  Speaker 1: from Andy Reid to Obviously, the connection of these two
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  Speaker 1: goes back to the mid nineties in Green Bay. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it week ten obviously, but here they are
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  Speaker 1: again matching what's in the playoffs. It's the best, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing. Yeah, you know this guy played for him,
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  Speaker 1: he coached on his staff. That's cool, It's great. This
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  Speaker 1: is so real And I'll tell you why. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's more real than most of these nice stories JP
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it. Andy Reid became head coach
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL for the first time. Who did he
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  Speaker 1: trust to be his quarterback and to get his system going?
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  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. Andy Reid comes to Kansas City. Who's the
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  Speaker 1: one guy and all the assistance he had through all
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  Speaker 1: those places, Who's the one guy he trusted to be
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator? Doug Peterson. So the most important positions
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  Speaker 1: for a head coach. When you talk about offense, quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Both times Andy Reid's gotten a head coaching job,
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  Speaker 1: He's chosen Doug Peterson. And you think Andy Reid's good.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped five all time and wins in history of
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  Speaker 1: the league. Guy knows what he's doing. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty three, twenty four years of a relationship. But
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  Speaker 1: it's also a long term trust pattern that is similar
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  Speaker 1: when you look at each guy for how they treat
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  Speaker 1: their players, how they go about their job, what their
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  Speaker 1: teams do on the field. It's one of the better
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  Speaker 1: teacher pupil deals that we've had in quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike, this is the kind of the front end
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  Speaker 1: of what could be a golden era of quarterback play
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And all these guys in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: are twenty nine years older, younger, all eight of them.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like Patrick Mahomes about forty years old already.
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  Speaker 1: But he's right, right, right, He's not going on anytime soon. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried that Patrick's and be able to make it
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  Speaker 1: through the game at his advanced stage. You know, I hope,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that they're able to kind of go easy
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  Speaker 1: to be able to hand the ball off because I
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  Speaker 1: think can make it four quarters is the old guy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I started looking. It's the first time in twenty years
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten to this point. We always say divisional weekend
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  Speaker 1: is the best weekend of the year. The best teams
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  Speaker 1: end up here, right, either had to win your division
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  Speaker 1: or win a playoff game. No flukes get here. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you look around this weekend, for the last twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: we've had Manning or Rogers or Brady, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time we have none of them. So we
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  Speaker 1: know this generation has arrived and is coming. And this
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  Speaker 1: weekend is symbolic to me because this generation is now
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  Speaker 1: taken over the stage and Mahomes is great in so
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  Speaker 1: many ways. An m v P this year in all likelihood,
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  Speaker 1: and what you saw in Trevor's second rookie year this
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  Speaker 1: year was a guy who is figuring it out and
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  Speaker 1: learning like Josh Allen, Jo Burrow, Patrick Mahomes justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 1: You guys saw a person in the first half look great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, man, we are very fortunate the NFC. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some really, really good football with some horrific
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  Speaker 1: young quarterbacks. For many years to come. Mike Riko with
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  Speaker 1: his final thought here with you. There's been some talk
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  Speaker 1: this week, a lot of comparisons about the nineties six
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars around here, the way they rallied back and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But if they are able to pull this off in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, the nineties six team right went to Denver.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first time I think Denver had to
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  Speaker 1: defend in a long time, first time they were a
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  Speaker 1: number one seed and had to defend. They go up
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  Speaker 1: there and beat him, right. Uh, then they won the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowls after that. This kid's the city team has
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  Speaker 1: been here before. They know what it's like to be
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  Speaker 1: a number one seed in the divisional round and defend Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of ripples would this send around the NFL
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  Speaker 1: If the Jaguars can pull this off? Oh my gosh, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I just remember I remember the game, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: we go back to Doug Morone to the team to
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  Speaker 1: the conference championship game and and that second game against Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: That was like because the first game against Buffalo was
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst playoff games. So the mad bad
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. They're ugly, they're good, you win, and it
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  Speaker 1: was one of the worst games you'll ever see in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and there was no way this team was
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  Speaker 1: going to go back and win. And that Pittsburgh game
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  Speaker 1: was ah wow, and we're all still like, canch me,
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  Speaker 1: is this real in the third quarter of the game
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  Speaker 1: in Foxborough the next weekend, so it can be done.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about the Jaguars championship game appearances and
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  Speaker 1: they look back at the three and what's the common thread? Man?
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  Speaker 1: There were teams that had a real tight confidence with
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  Speaker 1: the group and a grip to them that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're Jacksonville. You're not one of the longtime powers of
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  Speaker 1: the league. The other team and this big venue where
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  Speaker 1: we're so dominant it will take over. Never happens. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. They're all different teams, all
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  Speaker 1: different areas, different coaches. Obviously with Coughlin, Maron a couple
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  Speaker 1: of sercise a Lums I'll point out real quick and
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  Speaker 1: now Doug and you lease have a sycuse guy on
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  Speaker 1: this team with Andre Cisco, so it'll count for the
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  Speaker 1: thread through it all. But you know what, there's something
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  Speaker 1: about the Jaguars when they get in the playoffs that
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  Speaker 1: there's a belief and I love that about this team
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  Speaker 1: and this franchise, and I know they're playing with quote
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  Speaker 1: house money, but this is a dangerous team to have
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  Speaker 1: all all the cards in their hand deal them all out.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited for them. If they would come in
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  Speaker 1: here and knock the Chiefs out and deny them from
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  Speaker 1: a fifth straight appearance in the NFC Championship Game, it
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  Speaker 1: will be one of the great upsets to follow one
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  Speaker 1: of the great comebacks in the NFL playoff history. And
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past past this team to have
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  Speaker 1: it happened. This is that kind of group right now.
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  Speaker 1: My great stuff, have a great call, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll be seeing a lot of you down the line here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The good the good news about this is the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: will be on the schedule a little bit more, some
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  Speaker 1: more trips down to upon a fature beach comes to
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  Speaker 1: the TPC during football season. So it's all good. We're
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. Uh, it's great to be on with
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  Speaker 1: the JP. Good luck to all the Jaguar fans and
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  Speaker 1: well we'll see all for the players in UH in March.
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  Speaker 1: Look Florid to being back down that way.