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Players to watch in Week 5 | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, October 6 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive John with Ashlyn Selli Sells, John
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Speaker 1: Oceans and Brian Session Jacks Drive. John starts right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. It's been a great place
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Speaker 1: and we did a lot of a lot of good
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Speaker 1: things there. I understand that city, I understand the passion
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Speaker 1: for for football, but but now I'm on the other side.
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Speaker 1: You hope it's a good one, obviously, but I gotta
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Speaker 1: get this team here ready to go, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to be concerned with that. Sounds of the game
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Speaker 1: it out now on Jaguars dot Com reliving that game
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Speaker 1: from last week as we look forward to this week's
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Speaker 1: game against the Houston Texans. Welcoming to Jaguars Drive time, Ashlyn,
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Speaker 1: Brian and John here with you. Are you cold and wet?
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Speaker 1: Just watching that? I almost started up again and I said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Ashland, you've done too. I think you
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Speaker 1: showed that to make your point. You've made it. I
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Speaker 1: can't talk about it again. The rain out there. If
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Speaker 1: there was rain or video. Yes, beautiful, John knock it over.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get ready for big things, shall we?
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Speaker 1: As we get ready for a home game against the
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans this week. With big thing one is a
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Speaker 1: big game, a divisional matchup this weekend in the a
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Speaker 1: f C South, but also a bounce back game for
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Speaker 1: this Jaguars team looking to get a lead in the
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Speaker 1: a f C South. One thing that will need to
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Speaker 1: greatly improve on Sunday is the run defense. There were
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Speaker 1: things there that we need to fit because I mean
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of the Washington deal kind of
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Speaker 1: raised his head a little bit. Um. All fixable, all correctable.
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Speaker 1: I'll teachable um. And that's going to be the focus
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Speaker 1: this week to make sure we stayed disciplined with and
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Speaker 1: this is a good running team, so you know, we
2:15
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we stayed disciplined in those uh in
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Speaker 1: those run lines. Big thing too is bounce back. After
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Speaker 1: last week, we now have to question are they the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars of Week one and Week four with losses to
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Speaker 1: the Commanders and the Eagles? Are are they the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: of Week two? In Week three? With very big wins
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Speaker 1: so far this season? One thing we do know on
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Speaker 1: Sunday the quarterback will have to play better. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I've made a lot of progress, especially from last
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Speaker 1: year from where I was. Um obviously didn't didn't play
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Speaker 1: well on Sunday, so that's that's not where I want
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Speaker 1: to be. But if you look at the year, you know,
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Speaker 1: as a whole, I think I've made I know I've
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Speaker 1: made a lot of steps in the right direction, and
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Speaker 1: I know I've improved a lot. So continue to build
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Speaker 1: off that. Don't let one game affect my confidence. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm still the same player that went into Philly on
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Speaker 1: Sunday and then still the same player here on on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday getting ready for the Texans, So not letting that
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Speaker 1: affect me at all. Um, Obviously I know I have
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Speaker 1: to play better. You know. That's everybody knows that you
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks gotta play well to win in this league and
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Speaker 1: especially going down the road you know, hopefully get into
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Speaker 1: the playoffs all those things. UM gotta play well. So
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Speaker 1: I mean we all understand it, but just for me, Um,
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Speaker 1: I really if I can just stay consistent, keep making progress,
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Speaker 1: and keep taking those steps, I really believe in myself
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Speaker 1: and this team. And big thing three is stop Cooks.
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Speaker 1: Texans wide receiver Brandon Cooks has been a menace for
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Speaker 1: the shot Wars team to handle the past couple of seasons,
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Speaker 1: and really this Texans team has been very difficult to handle.
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Speaker 1: We call it a rivalry, but it really hasn't been
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Speaker 1: and has been very one sided towards the Houston Texans
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Speaker 1: since two thousand and seventeen, eight straight wins for the Texans,
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Speaker 1: and guys in the locker room didn't even know about
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Speaker 1: that streak, and I genuinely don't think about it too much,
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Speaker 1: um until somebody mentioned, just like today, I didn't not
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Speaker 1: that we hadn't. I didn't know it had been a
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Speaker 1: longstan be use, So I mean, you don't it's not
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Speaker 1: on my man, and now you have it. Those are
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Speaker 1: big things, funny enough. Talking to Cam Robinson, he said
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Speaker 1: he spoke to general manager Trent Bulky that morning about
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Speaker 1: this streak and Trent mentioned, hey, you know, we haven't
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Speaker 1: been the Texans since two thousand seventeen. Was like, what, No,
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Speaker 1: that can't be right, and he went back and checked
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Speaker 1: and it's it's right. It's worse than that. They have
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Speaker 1: lost fourteen of the last sixteen dating back to They
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Speaker 1: have lost nineteen of the last twenty two. So I
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Speaker 1: mean for the team and the coaches, doesn't matter at all,
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Speaker 1: But for the organization, here's the bottom line. This team,
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Speaker 1: since the onset of the a f C South has
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Speaker 1: been horrid. They have never performed well in the South.
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Speaker 1: The Titans, the Texans until Peyton Manning left and they
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Speaker 1: even things out with the Colts. They weren't competitive against
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Speaker 1: the Colts. And the storyline is an eight in a
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Speaker 1: row because they've lost eight in a row. The storyline is,
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Speaker 1: if you want to make the playoffs, you gotta win
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Speaker 1: the division. And you want to win the division, you
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Speaker 1: gotta start beating the Texans. Gonna start beating both the Texans.
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Speaker 1: They haven't won an a f C South game against
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Speaker 1: e team other than the Colts since September of nineteen,
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Speaker 1: the Gardner Minshew game against the Titans. Um, this big
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Speaker 1: thing one was big game. Uh, you guys know me,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately for you, but UM, I'm not big on regular
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Speaker 1: season big game hype. I think generally speaking, one game
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Speaker 1: isn't meant to similar the next, and and and we
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Speaker 1: hype up games too much during the season, and then
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Speaker 1: and then the next one is also the biggest game.
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Speaker 1: But this I've said all week has some very subtle
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Speaker 1: big things about it. Winning out here and establishing under
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson that you are a good team at home.
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Speaker 1: I think it's important if you do it now you've
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Speaker 1: won two in the division at home to start this
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Speaker 1: thing off. I think that's very important for the psyche
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Speaker 1: of this team and for them to show people we
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Speaker 1: are we think we are. The biggest thing, though, is
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Speaker 1: you go out against a team you're quote supposed to
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Speaker 1: be in the division. To me, you established so much
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Speaker 1: by winning this game. It's not even stuff that they'll
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Speaker 1: sit there in the locker room and sort of beat
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Speaker 1: their chest about. It's just stuff you'll know of. Hey,
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Speaker 1: these guys are going in the right direction and they're
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Speaker 1: not just talking, they're playing in their winning Well. If
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Speaker 1: you don't think this, I guess you do think it's
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Speaker 1: a big game. But this is a big stretch because
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Speaker 1: you beat these guys this week, then you go to Indie.
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Speaker 1: Now there's your chance to go three and oh in
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Speaker 1: the division, to knock them out of the division race
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Speaker 1: and set it up for you and the Titans, who
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Speaker 1: played twice in the last six weeks of the season.
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Speaker 1: So you talk about being the team that you you
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Speaker 1: claim to be, a team on the rise, a team
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Speaker 1: that's about to contend for division titles. Well, this is
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Speaker 1: your chance. I mean now you might as well do
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Speaker 1: it now, um, And I want to skip to Big
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Speaker 1: Thing three to kind of play on that. UM. Brandon
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Speaker 1: Cooks has killed the Jaguars, and it's not just a
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Speaker 1: big catch here or there. He's played this franchise seven
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Speaker 1: times since coming into the league in New Orleans, uh,
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Speaker 1: in the a f C Championship game in and then
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Speaker 1: obviously four times with the With the Texans, he averages
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Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty yards per game. He has three
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Speaker 1: straight hundred yard games and in seven appearances against this
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Speaker 1: franchise he has six and five touchdowns. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: guy has just been unstoppable. Um. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: Texans have a lot of weapons, but this guy, man,
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Speaker 1: he is really deadly against this franchise. It's a he's
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Speaker 1: not big, he's lightning quick, he's fast. But I think
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Speaker 1: more than anything, talking to people who know him, he's smart.
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Speaker 1: He is a really smart receiver who understands how to
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Speaker 1: get open. They played against this team every week. You
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Speaker 1: have a gold jacket. I mean, he's he's been outstanding
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Speaker 1: against these guys. And it's the old NFL thing. As
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Speaker 1: soon as you think that you are overwhelming a team,
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Speaker 1: are you that much better than the team, Brandon because
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Speaker 1: comes out of it really touchdown your seven nothing and
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Speaker 1: you're saying, uh, this is a dangerous game for on
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Speaker 1: a lot of fronts because the Texans have played well
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Speaker 1: this season to get themselves into games at the end.
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Speaker 1: I've been saying all week, this is a game where
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Speaker 1: you want to get a lead, you want to play
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Speaker 1: well early. You don't want to be down ten three
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Speaker 1: at halftime on something flukey, because then they start believing
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Speaker 1: that you're not as good as you think you are.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's a big one. I think it's tricky,
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Speaker 1: it's important. It is, and talking all week to coach
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Speaker 1: Peterson are the players and the press conferences, they keep
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Speaker 1: mentioning that the Texans are a team that just doesn't
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Speaker 1: go away. They're playing hard. The record doesn't indicate how
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Speaker 1: hard they're playing, and they're just that that annoying team
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Speaker 1: when just when you think you beat them, they come
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Speaker 1: back in a game. And that started the fourth course.
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Speaker 1: Smith is a really good coach. People forget that he
8:45
Speaker 1: got fired by the Bears, but most coaches end up
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Speaker 1: leaving getting fired. Uh. He is a very very good
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Speaker 1: coach and he will have this team schematically ready to
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Speaker 1: play against Doug Peterson's final thing for me, move on.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big belief ever in I want to and
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Speaker 1: a half too for a team. Uh, the texts. Until
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Speaker 1: a team believes it's out of it, they're always dangerous
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Speaker 1: in this league. As sometimes at the end of the
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Speaker 1: season when teams are if you give them a gut
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Speaker 1: punch early in the game, they'll go away. Texans are
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Speaker 1: O three and one. It's truly in the season to
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Speaker 1: think that they're done. They also know if they win
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Speaker 1: in the texts and the Titans lose their half game
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Speaker 1: out so they don't have any reason to believe that
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Speaker 1: they're still not in it. So in the first quarter,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna see a beaten team. You've got to
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Speaker 1: go beat them if you're the Jags, and that is
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Speaker 1: big things. When we come back on Jaguars Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: we go around the locker room on the Jaguars Digital Network.
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Speaker 1: Say morning, getting ready for a home game this Sunday.
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Speaker 1: A lot going on in the same today. It is
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Speaker 1: all Tony Boselli as we get ready for his big
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Speaker 1: weekend here in jackson as well and celebrating with him.
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the locker room. What the
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Speaker 1: players are talking about about this Texans team. Why receiver
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Speaker 1: Marvin Jones on getting back to the way he foresees
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Speaker 1: this team and what they're known for. It's always like that,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um, just you know us as receivers, you know,
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Speaker 1: regardless of anything, we're always supposed to be there for him.
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Speaker 1: And you know, make make a test a test catch.
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Speaker 1: You know, every every throw isn't gonna be perfect, but um,
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Speaker 1: that's why you have a good quarterback and you have
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Speaker 1: good receivers and you know, so, um, it's a balance,
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Speaker 1: you know, So he neither he throws it up and
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Speaker 1: testing that we come and to come down to get
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Speaker 1: it and we'll get it in vice versa. You know
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Speaker 1: he's gonna put it, you know, where where he needs
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Speaker 1: to be, where it needs to be. So um, I
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Speaker 1: think that's the nation tip that we have um and
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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna continue to show them. Marvin Jones
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Speaker 1: and supporting Trevor Lawrence. And the question was asked, you
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Speaker 1: do you feel like you need to lift him up
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Speaker 1: this week? And and all the receivers said, no, he's fine.
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Speaker 1: He had one bad game. We don't need to lift
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Speaker 1: him up. But yeah, we're gonna be there for him regardless.
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Speaker 1: We'll lift him up on Sunday by catching the ball.
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Speaker 1: You know. I mean, he's getting a lot of heat
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Speaker 1: for the performance, and rightfully so with the four fumbles,
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Speaker 1: right holding the ball too long, letting it go through
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Speaker 1: his grasp on the snap um. But there were plenty
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Speaker 1: of times where Marvin or Christian Kirk could have caught
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Speaker 1: an easy pass. And I know because you've told me
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Speaker 1: it was wet, But the other guys did a j
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Speaker 1: brown cat passes. So catch the ball for him and
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Speaker 1: help him out, lift him up on Sunday. You wanted
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Speaker 1: to worry about him Monday through Saturday. Yeah, I go
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Speaker 1: back to this with Trevor. There's been so much talk
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Speaker 1: and I've gotten questions in the inbox about was this
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Speaker 1: a regression? Are you worried about it. He didn't throw
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Speaker 1: four picks. He had four fumbles in tricky situations. I
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Speaker 1: will worry, and I say worry, but it will be
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Speaker 1: a storyline next time he plays in a driving rain
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Speaker 1: or in a cold rain. Whatever it was, lynn Um,
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Speaker 1: But I don't worry about him at this point in
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Speaker 1: his career. Here, he's twenty one games in. He's seeing
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Speaker 1: it better. He knows what he's seeing out there. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't flinging the ball Willie nailor at the place. He
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Speaker 1: had one bad pick, but that happens occasionally. He's fine.
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Speaker 1: The receivers know that he's seeing it and he's getting
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Speaker 1: the ball where it's supposed to be. They weren't, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't sense also that the receivers were as open
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Speaker 1: as on Sunday as they had been in the first four.
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Speaker 1: I mean in the first three. May be seeing that wrong.
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Speaker 1: Is it was just sort of a gut feeling from
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Speaker 1: watching the game from upstairs in the in the warm
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Speaker 1: press box, but it uh. I think they also know
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Speaker 1: that overall, whether it was rain, whether it was whatever,
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Speaker 1: they just weren't quite as a team as in sync.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just the four fumbles. It bears repeating one
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Speaker 1: more time. Mark Brunel through five interceptions in a game,
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Speaker 1: and he never did it again. You learned from it.
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Speaker 1: You move on, all right, Let's stick with wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: A Jones on why it is obvious this team's confidence
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Speaker 1: is growing week tweak. I think that everything is kind
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Speaker 1: of settled in when we know our roles, we know
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Speaker 1: we know what it can be as well, like we've
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Speaker 1: seen it. We know how we are when we we
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Speaker 1: play efficiently, when we were able to establish the run
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Speaker 1: and we're able to throw the ball and everything comes together.
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Speaker 1: So just having that experience now as a group, there's
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Speaker 1: no excuse for us not to be able to think
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Speaker 1: that we can't do this. So I think just the
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Speaker 1: compass has grown from putting it out there on the field,
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Speaker 1: making the plays and looking actually like we're a good
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Speaker 1: football team. It's you know, we said it before, but
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Speaker 1: like we've seen the proof that we're a good football team.
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Speaker 1: I would say that's the major difference. You hear an
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Speaker 1: intense game of ping pong going on behind Z Jones,
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Speaker 1: But that is a guy that's going to be back
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Speaker 1: on the field most likely on Sunday. He practiced in
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Speaker 1: a limited fashion yesterday and they saw the absence of
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Speaker 1: Z Jones. Yes, Jamal Agnew came in and filled the role,
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Speaker 1: but this offense works best when Z Jones on the field.
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Speaker 1: I don't doubt that at all. Um. You know, we
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Speaker 1: talked about Doug being calm and and his demeanor of
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Speaker 1: professional Z is so calm as well. He's one of
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Speaker 1: those guys as they brought in. His father was Robert Jones,
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Speaker 1: who was a three times Super Bowl winner with the Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: so he grew up in the Cowboys locker room. His uncle,
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Speaker 1: Jeff Blake, was the quarterback for many years for the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, so he's been around this. He understands what
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Speaker 1: winning is, he understands what losing is, and he understands
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Speaker 1: from week to week you just have to put it
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Speaker 1: away and move on to the next thing. It's valuable
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Speaker 1: to have a guy like that in your locker room.
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Speaker 1: I agree, you agree, and I love that every time
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Speaker 1: you asked a question, he really he stops, he thinks
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Speaker 1: about it, and then he answers. He's incredibly insightful as well,
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Speaker 1: and he wants to give you the best answer possible.
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Speaker 1: It's very important. Yeah, absolutely, all right, let's go to
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball to want smoots on.
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Speaker 1: Was it surprising the run defense fell off so drastically
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Speaker 1: from week three to week four? I wouldn't necessarily. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to explain. I mean, they get paid too, you know,
14:49
Speaker 1: that's the that's the crazy thing about the team teams,
14:52
Speaker 1: they get paid too. That just as good as we
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Speaker 1: are as well. So I mean people have good days,
14:56
Speaker 1: have bad days, just about getting back to the basis
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Speaker 1: and getting back to the things that you did and
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Speaker 1: just within those things betweeks. And that was something I
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Speaker 1: was curious and wanted to ask to once mood Is
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Speaker 1: watching it, Why did the run defense change so drastically
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Speaker 1: in a week? And trying to get the answer. A
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Speaker 1: lot of guys just said, yeah, it was just a
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Speaker 1: bad day. There wasn't this one reason why we all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden couldn't stop the run. Well, they run
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Speaker 1: a different offense up there with that quarterback, and and
15:20
Speaker 1: they create some misdirection plays. Look, when you run the
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Speaker 1: ball fifty times two ten yards is probably close to
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get. I mean, that's the most rushing
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Speaker 1: attempts any franchise has ever had against this franchise. But
15:32
Speaker 1: there were three drives in the second quarter to be
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Speaker 1: concerned about right where they went right down their throat,
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Speaker 1: and the second touchdown drive in particular where they had
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Speaker 1: it third down I think second and goal from the
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Speaker 1: sixteen and then third and goal from the eleven and
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Speaker 1: you couldn't stop what you knew was coming. Um, they
15:49
Speaker 1: got to clean some of that stuff up. Yeah, they
15:53
Speaker 1: played an RPO offense that believes it's an RPO offense.
15:57
Speaker 1: This offense, for example, the jar was they have RPO elements,
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Speaker 1: but teams don't have to go in playing the Jai
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Speaker 1: Wars thinking that Trevor is going to run fifteen or
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Speaker 1: twenty times. You don't want him doing that. That was
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Speaker 1: their first time as a unit with Devin Lloyd and
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker and a lot of new guys on the
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Speaker 1: field together playing an offense like that. It is a
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Speaker 1: trickier thing than what they're gonna face this time when
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Speaker 1: they play this kind offense again and they play the
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Speaker 1: Ravens in a couple of weeks. This is a very
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Speaker 1: serious topic because they struggled with that. I think they
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Speaker 1: will get better against that front, and I know The
16:29
Speaker 1: guys weren't really talking about that this week, but that's
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Speaker 1: why they struggled against the run last week. UM, they
16:34
Speaker 1: will need to get better with that because had some
16:38
Speaker 1: fundamental things that they missed the other day. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that will happen again to that degree. It's those
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Speaker 1: particular quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson's the Jalen hurts. The very few
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Speaker 1: in the league that can do that and have that
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Speaker 1: option and that scheme. Because we talked last week, it
16:51
Speaker 1: gives an extra runner that you have to account for,
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Speaker 1: and then there's gaps that the rookie linebackers are trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out on the fly. They haven't seen it before. UM.
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Speaker 1: I think the players well will are good enough players
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Speaker 1: and they care enough about it, and they will figure
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Speaker 1: out what they did wrong in that game and we
17:10
Speaker 1: get better against it. There's no rule it says you
17:12
Speaker 1: can't play better against that than they did on The
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Speaker 1: people think, oh, they just got overwhelmed. They got out man.
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Speaker 1: Kelsey is really good and he did out man them
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Speaker 1: at times, but overall it was more about a gap
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Speaker 1: fit situation. I think they'll get better at it, and
17:26
Speaker 1: it bears repeating that the best run defense is putting
17:31
Speaker 1: up points on the board. And that's what happened week one,
17:34
Speaker 1: two and three. I mean, the Colts had to abandon
17:36
Speaker 1: the run with Jonathan Taylor, they had to leave it behind.
17:38
Speaker 1: Charge the same thing with Austin Ekeler with a hurting quarterback.
17:41
Speaker 1: They had to leave it behind because they fell behind,
17:44
Speaker 1: you know. And and the Eagles are that one team
17:46
Speaker 1: that's never going to give up the run because as
17:47
Speaker 1: John said, that's who they are, that's what they do.
17:50
Speaker 1: Maybe the Browns or the other team in the league
17:52
Speaker 1: that will do that, But if you get up on
17:54
Speaker 1: these guys this week, they're not gonna run the ball.
17:56
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw the ball. The morning. Well, the run
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Speaker 1: is a little bit a part of their passing game too,
18:03
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks so involved that it's almost like you
18:07
Speaker 1: have to termine something different. There's the passing game a
18:09
Speaker 1: lot of teams have, there's a running game, and then
18:12
Speaker 1: the teams that run the r p oh. It's almost
18:14
Speaker 1: a different thing that you're trying to stop in a
18:16
Speaker 1: conventional running game. So it's tricky. You could see how
18:18
Speaker 1: it'll be overwhelming, especially in the rain that's is around
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Speaker 1: morning time. Where he will he won't? He might. As
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Speaker 1: we get ready for the Jaguars game on Sunday, it's
18:59
Speaker 1: the Houston Xen's a home game, I'll take Andre Cisco.
19:04
Speaker 1: Remember a year ago when it was where are we're
19:05
Speaker 1: going to see Andre Cisco? Let's see Andre Cisco. Um,
19:09
Speaker 1: andre Cisco will make quarterbacks. I think twice about throwing
19:13
Speaker 1: where he's at. Remember the word on this guy was
19:16
Speaker 1: interception turnover machine. He had thirteen takeaways in two seasons
19:21
Speaker 1: at Syracuse. Um, John, that's a lot. And he fell
19:25
Speaker 1: in the draft because of an a c L he
19:26
Speaker 1: suffered his third year. There might have been the bottom
19:29
Speaker 1: of the first round pick, but came with the Jags
19:32
Speaker 1: in the third round. He has back to back games
19:34
Speaker 1: with an interception, and you can see when you watch
19:37
Speaker 1: him he's getting it. He's starting to figure this thing out. Um,
19:40
Speaker 1: he will not take offensive quarterbacks throw the other way.
19:42
Speaker 1: He told me the other day in the locker room
19:43
Speaker 1: that it's a point of pride for a defensive back
19:46
Speaker 1: to know that a quarterback wants nothing to do with you.
19:49
Speaker 1: He's not there yet. He wants to get there. Um
19:52
Speaker 1: And and he might make it three in a row
19:53
Speaker 1: this week. Davis Mills has in a couple of games
19:57
Speaker 1: Um made inopportune throws, and if he puts a couple
20:00
Speaker 1: of those up, this safety will be looking for them.
20:04
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, it's crazy to think how far
20:06
Speaker 1: he's coming. A year when he wasn't even seeing the field.
20:08
Speaker 1: We were begging for him to get some playing time.
20:10
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said last week that after there was the
20:13
Speaker 1: mistake obviously on the long touchdown in Washington, but since
20:16
Speaker 1: that moment, the Safeties have really improved their play. The
20:19
Speaker 1: last three weeks got well. I don't know if you
20:22
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be mad at me, but I know
20:23
Speaker 1: Pique Evan David Mag's been switching up. I know we
20:26
Speaker 1: have a graphic of Evan Ingram. I love Evan Ingram.
20:29
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be key this week, and I
20:31
Speaker 1: like the way he's playing. I love the way Evan
20:33
Speaker 1: caught the ball the other day in the rain securing it.
20:37
Speaker 1: I think he's improving his hands, and I love that.
20:40
Speaker 1: I'm going with a Jones Shelyn because when I saw
20:42
Speaker 1: him on the graphic, I said, this is a better
20:44
Speaker 1: he will he will. I don't want to cheat the viewers, Brian,
20:48
Speaker 1: so I need to give them a better he will
20:50
Speaker 1: he will, he might, he will play. I'm convinced he's
20:52
Speaker 1: gonna play this week, and I think he's gonna be fine.
20:54
Speaker 1: In terms of that ankle he won't have. I'm saying
20:58
Speaker 1: easy time. I think after the game yet he had
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Speaker 1: the other day. I think defensive are gonna to be
21:04
Speaker 1: concerned about both he and Christian Kirk. I don't think
21:06
Speaker 1: they're going to be automatically just gearing towards Christian Kirk.
21:09
Speaker 1: So I think Zay Jones he is played well enough
21:13
Speaker 1: in his last game out that he's going to have
21:15
Speaker 1: to deal with some double coverage, some people looking the
21:18
Speaker 1: other way. He might. I know right now Christian Kirk
21:23
Speaker 1: is the best receiver on this team. You just have
21:25
Speaker 1: a feeling. I don't want to compare to Jimmy Smith
21:29
Speaker 1: because Jimmy Smith is other worldly good to me. And
21:32
Speaker 1: but remember when it started off, it was Keenan and
21:37
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and Jimmy by the end of the year
21:40
Speaker 1: was clearly the best receiver. And the I say clearly,
21:45
Speaker 1: but he was playing at a Pro Bowl. He was
21:47
Speaker 1: the most coming along. I don't know that these two
21:49
Speaker 1: are Keenan and Jimmy because those guys, to me are icons.
21:52
Speaker 1: But my point is every tithing about Christian right now,
21:55
Speaker 1: I wonder if by the end of the season Zay
21:57
Speaker 1: Jones won't be a real impact kind of player that
22:01
Speaker 1: people are noticing around the league. If you were calling
22:03
Speaker 1: in the top three were Andre Riisen, Keena McCardell, and
22:08
Speaker 1: Willie Jackson. It wasn't until Andre Riisen got cut and
22:12
Speaker 1: an opportunity arose that Jimmy went storming through and of course,
22:16
Speaker 1: over the next six years had as good at season
22:18
Speaker 1: as any quarterback and wide receiver have ever had. Fu
22:20
Speaker 1: anything is that Keena made the Pro Bowl that year,
22:22
Speaker 1: deservedly so by the end of the season, Jimmy was
22:24
Speaker 1: leading receiver. Well this just leads fabulously into myke he
22:28
Speaker 1: will he won't r We love to set you up. Yes,
22:30
Speaker 1: that's what John said. He you know he's a producer.
22:33
Speaker 1: He saw it on the sheet and I'm gonna share this. Yes,
22:36
Speaker 1: all right, Mikey will he won't be my is Christian Kirk.
22:38
Speaker 1: He will be the guy that we saw a week two.
22:40
Speaker 1: In week three, he starts this offense and when he
22:43
Speaker 1: couldn't get going last week, we saw how much this
22:45
Speaker 1: offense suffered and how much Trevor Lawrence suffered when Kurt
22:48
Speaker 1: couldn't get going. He will get going because A Jones
22:52
Speaker 1: will be on the field. This offense works best when
22:55
Speaker 1: those two are on the field together. Say Jon is
22:57
Speaker 1: going to be back on this field, And like we
22:58
Speaker 1: said with John, Jones is clearly the reason that Christian
23:02
Speaker 1: Kirk can have the success he has when I interviewed
23:03
Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks ago, that's that unselfish receiver
23:06
Speaker 1: played we talk about with day Jones going and taking
23:09
Speaker 1: that safety, Christian Kirk can succeed. I think Christian Kirk
23:12
Speaker 1: might score another touchdown this week. And like John said,
23:16
Speaker 1: this is something we'll talk about all season long. As
23:18
Speaker 1: we see both these receivers improve, We're always gonna say, Okay,
23:21
Speaker 1: who's the number one receiver, who's the best guy. I
23:23
Speaker 1: don't think you have to say who's the best guy,
23:25
Speaker 1: because if these two are working the way they're supposed to,
23:27
Speaker 1: they're both supposed to be very successful. Yeah, they're an
23:30
Speaker 1: interesting tandon to me. Brian and I there they're coming along. Um,
23:37
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Morvin Jones get more involved. Uh.
23:40
Speaker 1: You wonder about the big time depth at this position
23:45
Speaker 1: if somebody gets hurt. Um, I think it's a it's
23:48
Speaker 1: a good intriguing wide receiver Cord. I think is a
23:51
Speaker 1: lot better than fans thought it was going to be. Uh,
23:54
Speaker 1: And I'm curious to see where it goes because it
23:57
Speaker 1: feels like it could have a really big year. And
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how that looks because it's gonna
24:02
Speaker 1: be a unique look with Christian the way he plays
24:05
Speaker 1: Z Jones, it's not your prototypical receiving core. I think
24:08
Speaker 1: it's got a chance to be a really good core. Well,
24:10
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I know he plays for Richard and Gulo,
24:12
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna call Evan Ingram a big wide receive.
24:15
Speaker 1: I mean, I really he'll block. He's That's not a
24:17
Speaker 1: slight on him whatsoever. He'll do anything you want him
24:21
Speaker 1: to do. But if Evan Ingram is more involved early on,
24:23
Speaker 1: especially in the middle of the field. Well, that opens
24:26
Speaker 1: everything up, right when you've got to have a safety
24:28
Speaker 1: who's got his eyes on where Evan Ingram is because
24:30
Speaker 1: he's a favorite target. Then they can't always watch christian
24:34
Speaker 1: Za and morphn. I just me right, and they're smart guys.
24:38
Speaker 1: On the other side. We've talked about how good that
24:40
Speaker 1: offensive staff is. Get Angram involved more and watch this
24:44
Speaker 1: wide receiving group go to a different level. He'd be
24:46
Speaker 1: a good topic for he will, he will? He might? Yeah,
24:49
Speaker 1: maybe next week John all Right does he will? He wont?
24:51
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25:19
Speaker 1: predict the outcome of Sunday's game against the Texans, Brian,
25:22
Speaker 1: what are we thinking? Brandom contenders right, playoff the old
25:26
Speaker 1: brand and steer right there. But I think when the
25:28
Speaker 1: Jaguars went on Sunday and or two and oh in
25:31
Speaker 1: the division, they can start talking about contending for the
25:34
Speaker 1: division title. They won't. We will? We might? Um, we will,
25:38
Speaker 1: we won't, we might? Brandom contenders is what I'm going with.
25:42
Speaker 1: I like it. They were already honestly talking about that
25:44
Speaker 1: yesterday in the locker room. Cam Robinson said, it's very
25:46
Speaker 1: clear if we win the division, we take our fate
25:48
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, that that is being talked about. And
25:50
Speaker 1: there's no reason why they shouldn't talk about it amongst themselves, right,
25:54
Speaker 1: I mean they and they are probably that's the equation there.
25:56
Speaker 1: But we're going to be, you know, contrite and humble
25:58
Speaker 1: on camera and say all the right things because that's
26:00
Speaker 1: what pro athletes do these days for the most part.
26:02
Speaker 1: But you win this one now, and and you're sending
26:05
Speaker 1: a loud and clear message we're coming for it. In
26:08
Speaker 1: the old days of newspapers, they did headlines sometimes where
26:12
Speaker 1: you would have like a big word here, and you
26:15
Speaker 1: play it off of the other words. I'm gonna say no, no,
26:18
Speaker 1: no no frills, no fumbles, no problem, because I don't
26:24
Speaker 1: think that you're gonna have the headline. I don't know
26:29
Speaker 1: that it's going to be a game where there's magnificent,
26:32
Speaker 1: big play. I don't I don't necessarily care about that
26:34
Speaker 1: with this game. What I'd like to see is sort
26:37
Speaker 1: of a workman light game from the Jaguars, where you
26:39
Speaker 1: see sometimes when they're playing a team that you know
26:42
Speaker 1: you should beat, you know you're better than when at
26:44
Speaker 1: twenty four seventeen, I feel like you're in control in
26:48
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, no fumbles is kind of obvious, and
26:52
Speaker 1: then no problem. I think they win the game, and
26:55
Speaker 1: I think they show what we've been talking about all week.
26:57
Speaker 1: I believe that they'll show that they are professional team,
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Speaker 1: ready to beat teams that you feel like they ought
27:03
Speaker 1: to beat. Won't be easy, won't be a blowout. It
27:07
Speaker 1: might be a game or people today and say, oh,
27:08
Speaker 1: they should have been a Texas bade more point. Yeah,
27:10
Speaker 1: so you might feel some of that, but I don't
27:13
Speaker 1: think it would be a problem. I think they win
27:15
Speaker 1: the game, and I think they were doing what Brian's
27:16
Speaker 1: talking about. I think there. I feel like a team
27:20
Speaker 1: that's going to contend in being that conversation until December.
27:23
Speaker 1: I like it's my Monday's headlines today is not to fear.
27:27
Speaker 1: Doug is here. I like it. I told him in
27:30
Speaker 1: a commercial break they were gonna love this point. Well,
27:31
Speaker 1: I do like it. Here's why because last year this
27:34
Speaker 1: Texans game here where they lost was was that game
27:38
Speaker 1: where the most novice of football fans right could sit
27:42
Speaker 1: there and go, well, that guy is a much better
27:43
Speaker 1: coach than this guy, remember, because what's his face was
27:46
Speaker 1: still on this sideline over here, and and the guy
27:49
Speaker 1: over in the other side out coached him twice. And
27:52
Speaker 1: so when you say, never fear Doug is here, this
27:55
Speaker 1: is that game to me where he goes, yeah, yeah,
27:57
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing because I thought that the
27:59
Speaker 1: jag Wars have won that game last year. I thought
28:02
Speaker 1: they were even with all of that, that they were
28:03
Speaker 1: better roster, but they got thoroughly out coached. This year,
28:06
Speaker 1: they will not get out coached. Will just they're there,
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