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Jags HQ | Boselli & Gladstone on Jaguars' Preparation for Texans in Week 6 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jags HQ. Brian Sexton and former Jaguar Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Loggeman sit down each week with the decision makers of
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  Speaker 1: your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to bring you a product that you all
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  Speaker 2: can be proud of.
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  Speaker 3: With that, game on.
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  Speaker 1: Jags HQ starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: And welcome into what I have taken to calling the
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  Speaker 4: Hyundai Library, right? We're not in the Hyundai studios yet.
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  Speaker 4: Come on in, right? I was just wondering if James
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  Speaker 4: Gladstone and Tony Buscelli would be able to find the door.
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  Speaker 4: This is like real-life folks' clue. We're trying to decide
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  Speaker 4: whether it was Mrs. Green with the candlestick here in
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  Speaker 4: the library or perhaps Professor Plum with the pipe wrench.
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  Speaker 4: But we know something happened here in this library. Brian, Jeff,
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  Speaker 4: you see the back of the young general manager, James Gladstone,
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  Speaker 4: who just walked in. And he's about to sit down.
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  Speaker 4: And here comes Tony Buscelli.
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  Speaker 5: Give him some room here.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me for my long legs there, James.
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  Speaker 3: We've got the best setting in the building. We do.
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  Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty nice.
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  Speaker 6: We enjoy being in here. You guys look all cozy
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  Speaker 6: on the couch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Couldn't have the two of you guys sitting side by side.
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  Speaker 5: I just put my pipe away. I figured that you
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  Speaker 5: guys would not like the smoke, so I put my
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  Speaker 5: pipe away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that might have been tough on Tony's nostrils.
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  Speaker 6: Pass the cigars around. What did they drink over here? Scotch?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Is that right? I don't know. I mean, that's... Gin?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Gin is English, isn't it? Gin is English. Scotch.
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  Speaker 4: Not too far away from it.
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  Speaker 6: Scotland? Yeah. You're a big Scotch guy, Logs.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not much of a Scotch guy anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you changed.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Evolution.
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  Speaker 7: That was like heyday.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not much of an anything guy anymore, to be
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  Speaker 5: honest with you, the older I get.
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  Speaker 6: Brad?
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  Speaker 4: How's your week been?
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 6: It's been good.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, really, I give the staff and all the
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  Speaker 7: department leaders a ton of credit for how they operate
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  Speaker 7: and how they make this seamless. I mean, the same
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  Speaker 7: schedule we have and the way we operate in the
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  Speaker 7: MEC is really no different.
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  Speaker 6: Now, different settings.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Miller Electric Center.
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  Speaker 6: Miller Electric Center.
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  Speaker 5: People that don't know what the MEC is.
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  Speaker 6: Our office is.
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  Speaker 7: The biggest difference is James and I share an office
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  Speaker 7: this week. So instead of having to walk to each
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  Speaker 7: other's offices, we're just there together all day.
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  Speaker 4: Is that why you thought it was a good question?
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  Speaker 5: Do you need some counseling now? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: After having him in your office all week?
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely getting my steps in. Time out. Got to
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  Speaker 3: take some walks here and there.
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  Speaker 7: He's in my office.
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  Speaker 3: Good reframe.
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  Speaker 6: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the eye of the beholder.
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  Speaker 7: Well, based on the rankings that we did this week,
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  Speaker 7: I had to say that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did some good rankings.
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  Speaker 5: I went to the room that you guys were in,
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  Speaker 5: and it says the water cooler. So, in reality, it's
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  Speaker 5: neither one of yours.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 5: It's a collaborative space.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a collaborative space.
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  Speaker 6: We have a water cooler.
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  Speaker 7: At the office right outside James' office. We spend a
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  Speaker 7: lot of time there as well.
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  Speaker 6: But back to the question. Listen, it's always better when
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  Speaker 6: you win. Sure. And, boy.
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  Speaker 7: We took all the time we could possibly take to
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  Speaker 7: win that game. And, and so this week's been great.
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  Speaker 7: And it's a, you know, I think anytime you win
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  Speaker 7: a game the way we did, and I think the
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  Speaker 7: way I've kind of characterized it, it's this game. We
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  Speaker 7: had no business winning and no business losing. It was
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  Speaker 7: one of those games. You're like, Oh my gosh, how
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  Speaker 7: like with eight seconds left, like how did we get
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  Speaker 7: to this point? And then after those eight seconds, it's like,
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  Speaker 7: how did we get to this point? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 7: one of those types of games and give the Eagles
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  Speaker 7: a ton of credit. That defense was outstanding. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they have some of the best players in the NFL
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  Speaker 7: on that defense, and they showed up and played at
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  Speaker 7: a high level. But in those moments, you also have
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  Speaker 7: so many learnings. You know, a lot of times you
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  Speaker 7: lose and you focus on the things you have to
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  Speaker 7: get better at, and there's like an intensity about it.
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  Speaker 7: And Liam does a great job, win or lose, of
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  Speaker 7: celebrating the good, but say, hey, we have to get
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  Speaker 7: better here. And I think a lot of our fans
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  Speaker 7: see it in the postgame comments, and he does such
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  Speaker 7: a great job with the press of starting with himself
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  Speaker 7: and taking the accountability and saying, hey, where he wants
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  Speaker 7: to get better, he does it with our players. Our
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  Speaker 7: players are very accountable. And so that's the positive. Now,
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  Speaker 7: I think we had a good week, but time will tell.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Sunday's coming, and we're playing against a really good,
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  Speaker 7: throw out their record. I mean, you look at all
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  Speaker 7: the advanced metrics, you watch the tape. I mean, this
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  Speaker 7: is one of the best one-in-four teams in the history
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  Speaker 7: of the NFL. It's a really good football team, and
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  Speaker 7: it's a division rival, and it's going to be quite
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  Speaker 7: a matchup.
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  Speaker 4: And since you went there, I'll go right to it.
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  Speaker 4: They're coming here with the idea that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: get back in this thing if they can take the
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  Speaker 4: number one team in the division and shorten... If they
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  Speaker 4: can get to two-in-four and make you four-in-two, they feel
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  Speaker 4: like their season's.
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  Speaker 6: Back on track. Well, I would say regardless. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: obviously that's how they're thinking. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: But I know the way we talk and the way
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  Speaker 7: we think, and I think it's a good level set
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  Speaker 7: for everybody. Last year after nine games, the Indianapolis Colts
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  Speaker 7: were 8-1. And they had a multiple game lead over
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  Speaker 7: everybody else. And everyone talked about their playoff percentage and
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  Speaker 7: this and the number one seed and everything else. And
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  Speaker 7: they didn't win another game for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 7: And so the last thing you can do in the
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  Speaker 7: NFL is to get comfortable at any moment. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: division games, I don't care who we're playing, are tough
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  Speaker 7: physical matchups.
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  Speaker 6: That team that.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to play Sunday, who we have the utmost
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  Speaker 7: respect for, we split with last year. We felt like
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  Speaker 7: we let one get away in their place. They're coming in.
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  Speaker 7: They think they let one get away at our place.
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  Speaker 7: And so it's two teams that have a lot on
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  Speaker 7: the line, and it's going to be a great game
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  Speaker 7: at Wembley.
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  Speaker 5: I would say that looking back on last year, James,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there was any game or games that
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  Speaker 5: were more physical than the Texans games. There's a certain
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  Speaker 5: level of pads that you hear when these two teams
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  Speaker 5: get together.
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  Speaker 3: It's a body blow kind of boxing match.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly ahead of that first of the two games
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  Speaker 2: had labeled it as such and sort of framed our
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  Speaker 2: minds for that. I think it showed itself as much.
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  Speaker 2: The second game was a little bit different. You end
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  Speaker 2: up getting a pretty significant and sizable lead. And we
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  Speaker 2: had to go through a pretty painful experience. Ultimately, what
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  Speaker 2: I think was probably a pretty painful gift to reconcile
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  Speaker 2: with a few different elements, uh, that were maybe humming
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  Speaker 2: beneath the surface and being able to overcome that obstacle, uh,
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of it, really feeling like we
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  Speaker 2: were able to respond in all the right ways or
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  Speaker 2: the ways that you would like. Uh, that was a,
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  Speaker 2: painful moment, but a necessary and meaningful moment in the
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  Speaker 2: growth of our team a year ago and certainly in
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  Speaker 2: the framework of the organization as it stood. I think
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  Speaker 2: we experienced something a little bit similar in Denver this year.
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  Speaker 2: That was another chance for us to press pause, address
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  Speaker 2: a few things, and keep it pushing. I think that
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be the last time that we
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  Speaker 2: face some version of a hurdle, but when you step
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  Speaker 2: into the the ring like you are on Sunday against
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  Speaker 2: this team in particular, it's going to be a body
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  Speaker 2: blow kind of battle.
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  Speaker 4: A British writer last Friday at Liam's news conference asked
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  Speaker 4: him about defining games. And he went to the Houston
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  Speaker 4: game last year as being that game where it felt
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  Speaker 4: like it defined his team, your team. Do you see
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  Speaker 4: that game as being that pivotal in last season?
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  Speaker 2: I rarely think that there are singular moments that you
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  Speaker 2: can point to as it or anything along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: I think in a build, it tends to be more gradual.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some version of a breakthrough you can point to,
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  Speaker 2: but when it's adverse, it's interesting. You can label it
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  Speaker 2: as defining more than breakthrough or something positive. I do
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  Speaker 2: think that meant something significant, but I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: there was a singular instance that you could draw from
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  Speaker 2: to say that that was it.
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  Speaker 5: So you look at what the Texans have done this year.
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  Speaker 5: They started out 0-4, then all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 5: go into last week, and D'Amico Ryan takes over the
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  Speaker 5: play-calling duties as a defense, and now you've got two
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  Speaker 5: head coaches kind of matching wits this week. And I
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  Speaker 5: think really two head coaches that really, I guess, celebrate
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  Speaker 5: the rivalry.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And they completely are 100% in on it.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's a blast.
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  Speaker 2: That's a part of the game itself. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: want that stuff to– to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think that it'll be a test more
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  Speaker 2: just beyond the divisional matchup. I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of layers to it that say, hey, this is a
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  Speaker 2: really good piece to their team. This is a really
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  Speaker 2: good piece to our team. Let's see how they stand
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  Speaker 2: up against each other. And in particular on offense and defense,
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  Speaker 2: specifically to the callers on each side of those head coaches.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be a great example of where things stand.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to see it come to life.
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  Speaker 2: But ultimately it's a much different scenario than we were
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  Speaker 2: looking at a year ago. This is an entirely new
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  Speaker 2: team that we have, and same for them. And in
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  Speaker 2: the games that they played prior to this one that
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  Speaker 2: we will on Sunday, I mean, they've been in control
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of multiple and just let it
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  Speaker 2: slip through the cracks. And I think the record itself
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  Speaker 2: isn't a reflection of how good that team actually is.
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  Speaker 2: So we can't take anything lightly.
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  Speaker 5: I think it just adds to the whole rivalry thing
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  Speaker 5: when you've got, for the very first time, Liam and
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  Speaker 5: D'Amico squaring off. his play callers, because D'Amico didn't have
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  Speaker 5: that for the last year anyway. So I think it's
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  Speaker 5: going to amp it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: When we come back from the break, can we talk
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  Speaker 4: about the offensive line?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: You want him? Talk about the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: Just letting him know I'm coming right to him when
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  Speaker 4: we get back.
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  Speaker 5: You ready to take a break?
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  Speaker 6: If I have to.
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  Speaker 4: This is Jags HQ from London. Brian Sexton along with
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Logum and Tony Buscelli and James Gladstone are here.
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  Speaker 4: We're glad you're with us. And come back on the
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  Speaker 4: other side of this on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
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  Speaker 6: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Jags HQ from London. Jags and Texans Sunday, 9.32 kickoff.
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  Speaker 4: For those of you back home in Jacksonville, it's a
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  Speaker 4: mid-afternoon kickoff at Wembley Stadium. And you're facing a terrific defense,
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  Speaker 4: and you're having to make an adjustment to your offensive
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  Speaker 4: line this week. Tell us how that's gone with Walker
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  Speaker 4: Little getting back into the line-up And what can you
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  Speaker 4: tell us about Anton?
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  Speaker 3: How's he?
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  Speaker 7: Well, first thing, I mean, what a fun time to
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  Speaker 7: be an offensive lineman as a Jaguar. The last three weeks,
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  Speaker 7: arguably played one of the best one techniques in all football,
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  Speaker 7: played the best three technique in football last week.
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  Speaker 6: He decided to show up and play every snap like
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  Speaker 6: a wild man.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he did.
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  Speaker 7: And now this week, arguably playing one of the best
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  Speaker 7: pair of rushers. And right now, you have to say
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  Speaker 7: the best defensive end in football in Will Anderson.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And so what an opportunity for this group to go
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  Speaker 7: out and say, all right, here we go again. It's
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  Speaker 7: a tough matchup in this front. The whole defense is
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  Speaker 7: outstanding for the Texans, but it starts with that front
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  Speaker 7: and their ability to get after the quarterback and create chaos.
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  Speaker 6: They're very good players. They're violent. They're physical.
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  Speaker 7: They play the game the way you are supposed to
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  Speaker 7: play the game of football. We had, obviously, Anton get
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  Speaker 7: hurt last week. Right now, we'll find out more as
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  Speaker 7: we get back to Jacksonville. We're hoping for the best.
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  Speaker 7: We'll see how that goes. This is the Benefit we have,
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  Speaker 7: and I give James a ton of credit, the way
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  Speaker 7: he's constructed the roster and thought about the offensive line
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  Speaker 7: as a group, not just five, but looking at really
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  Speaker 7: eight to nine guys and making sure that we're stable
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  Speaker 7: there and understanding that that's the one group in the
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  Speaker 7: game of football that if you don't have depth and
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  Speaker 7: you can't operate, it's impossible to play offense. You can
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  Speaker 7: have all the skills, you can have the greatest quarterback,
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  Speaker 7: all those fancy toys, but if you don't have the
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  Speaker 7: nuts and bolts, the foundation of that offensive line, doing
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  Speaker 7: their job it's it's almost impossible to operate and we
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  Speaker 7: have the fortune having a guy come in and walker
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  Speaker 7: little who we have a ton of confidence in and
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  Speaker 7: a guy who started a lot of football games at
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  Speaker 7: a lot of different positions on the offensive line and
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  Speaker 7: primary at left tackle and he's played these guys multiple
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  Speaker 7: times and he's had success against these guys multiple times
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  Speaker 7: and so obviously we'd love to have anton out there
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  Speaker 7: we thought he was really trending and really having a
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  Speaker 7: especially you look at the last three weeks and his
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  Speaker 7: play and his physicality, his toughness, the way he was
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  Speaker 7: playing the game, man, he was taking one step after
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  Speaker 7: another and doing a great job. So feel bad for him.
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  Speaker 7: Tough situation for Anton.
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  Speaker 6: We hated it.
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  Speaker 7: Anytime a guy gets hurt, but we're playing the game
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  Speaker 7: this weekend. There's no, no one's going to feel sorry
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  Speaker 7: for that group. You know, Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter, they're
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  Speaker 7: not taking, they're not saying, Hey, we'll give you a break.
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  Speaker 7: They're coming like they come. And, Walker Little will step up.
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  Speaker 7: We have a ton of confidence, and we think he'll
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  Speaker 7: do a great job.
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  Speaker 5: I think the interesting thing about the Texans, and Brian
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  Speaker 5: and I had touched on this a little bit before,
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  Speaker 5: is that when you turn on the film, they played nickel.
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  Speaker 5: They played nickel, and they played nickel, and they played nickel.
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  Speaker 5: Every now and again, they'll mix in like a five-man front, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is very challenging.
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  Speaker 5: And there's not many teams that do that. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: is that something that's unique to them? And how can
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  Speaker 5: they do that and play– at such a high level
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  Speaker 5: against the run, being a top-five run defense in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think you've got to know the answer to that
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  Speaker 2: off the top of your head. It's because they've got
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  Speaker 2: some special dudes up on that front. In the end,
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  Speaker 2: they switched it up a little bit to start the
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  Speaker 2: game against Tennessee, threw a little wrinkle out there. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what will happen this time of year is you've
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  Speaker 2: got tendencies that are starting to build, and you work
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  Speaker 2: in those tendency breakers intentionally. And you build up those
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  Speaker 2: tendencies intentionally just to break them. So that will be
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  Speaker 2: an interesting piece, and it's the in-game dynamic that you've
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  Speaker 2: got to– You've got to work through and you've got
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  Speaker 2: to build off of, adjust to. But nonetheless, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a lot about us. Can we continue to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to focus on the execution of what we
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  Speaker 2: do best and being able to do that at the
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  Speaker 2: highest level we can? And ultimately, it's just playing football.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's interesting, too, when you watch those two
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  Speaker 5: guys that we're focusing on, Will Anderson Jr. and Daniil Hunter,
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  Speaker 5: when you watch them, they do a great job of
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  Speaker 5: moving both of those guys around. Whether it's in a
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  Speaker 5: spinner package or flipping sides, they do that obviously so
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  Speaker 5: you don't get a beat on them. But Tony, if
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  Speaker 5: you were getting ready to block these two guys individually,
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  Speaker 5: how would you approach that as an offensive lineman?
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  Speaker 7: I think they're a little bit different, but both great
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  Speaker 7: in their own right. I think starting with Will Anderson,
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  Speaker 7: he's an every down guy from the standpoint. He can
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  Speaker 7: play the run just as effective as he does the
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  Speaker 7: pass because he's so physical. He's so He's very strong.
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: He has great length. And everything with him in the
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: pass rush starts off the power.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: And he's not that big, by the way.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: No, he's not that big.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: And so I think it's, you know, anytime you play
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: a guy who's going to start with power and work,
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: you know, hands and speed off of it, and a
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: lot of it is speed to power, but he wants
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: to test you, you just got to be disciplined. And
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: at the end of the day, it all starts with
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: you as an individual. It's the proper kicks. Should have
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: no issues with the silent count at Wembley. And so
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: you have the advantage of the snap count. Making sure
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: you're getting off the count and changing up your sets.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Because the worst thing you can do against a great
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: pass rusher, no different than a great hitter in baseball.
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: I don't care how fast you throw the ball. A
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: great hitter, if he times you up, that thing's going.
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: Same way as an offensive tackle. If I set the
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: same way every single time, I might have success and
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: feel pretty good that I got a beat on him.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: But all of a sudden, he's timing up my And
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: he's getting a rhythm of what I'm doing. And so
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: changing it up, giving them different looks, I think that's
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: the key. And any time I played a guy like,
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: you know, Will Anderson, I go back to Jeff, you'll
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: remember this name, and Brian, Michael McCrary.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Very physical, started everything with power, worked off of that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: Well, if I'm going to play a guy like that,
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: Will Anderson, better, you know, probably more talented athletically, but
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: same style, is I have to bring the fight to him.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: and say, okay, you want to fight, you want to
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: play physical, I have to match that and say, we're
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: going to get into a fight here. This is going
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: to be a brawl today. Because otherwise, if you try
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: to finesse a guy like that, it's going to be
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: a real long day. Daniil's a little bit different. He
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: has power, but he wants to work edges. He has
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: a very effective spin move. He's very good with the
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: hand chop, getting the edge. And so I'm playing him different.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: I'm going to make sure I understand what he wants
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: to do. He'll try to set it up with power.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: He wants to test you, and he has the ability
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: to do that. But you also got to understand what
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: he's trying to do. Same strategy, no different, is changing
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: up sets and giving them little different looks because if
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: I can get, because they want to do a move
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: on the third step, if I can get there early,
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: get to the point, now all of a sudden they're
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: out of whack. And so it's the physical game, especially
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: with Will, where you have to say, dude, we are
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: going to fight today. This is going to be a brawl.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: It's also a mental game. Start working different techniques. Take
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: advantage when we can be physical and play action. Pass
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: in the run game. Make him feel you. And that's
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: the only way you.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Can play a guy like that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: The great players, if you sit back and respect them
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: too much, you respect the player. You respect what he
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: can do. Once you get that ball kicked off, the
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: respect has to go out the door and say, now
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: you're going to feel me as an offensive lineman.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I love watching videos of police dogs when they get
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: taken off that leash and they're told, go get them.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Can we get Laquan Allen Jr. off the leash a
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: little bit?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You know, it was, it was, uh, probably about the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: same week last year, right? We were playing the ramps
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: in Wembley and, uh, uh, it wasn't a great performance
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: from us overall, but Laquan certainly made his mark in
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: that setting. You know, he came and he, he didn't
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: just bark. He was biting, you know? So, uh, I
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: think it was around the same time that he was
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: starting to catch stride. So don't be surprised.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: And I think the other thing along those points and
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: whether it's LaQuint, whether it's our tight ends, whether it's
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: the play call, this is the great thing about Liam
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: and how he, and our coaches, as they think about it, listen,
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: everyone knows that they got two great pass rushers. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: the other thing that you can do to help out
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: any offense line, it's a group effort. It is not
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: like the old days where it's like, Hey, we're just
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: man blocking. It's like one-on-one and, Go figure it out.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: It's a group effort when you go play. No different
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: than playing Jalen Carter, playing Dexter Lawrence, playing the great
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: players of this league. They're great for a reason. It
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: takes a coordinated effort to have a game plan and
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: think about it. And everyone has to do it. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: the best thing you can do against any great defense alignment,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: any great defense player in that in my mind is
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: go right at him and run the ball be physical
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: this is a physical matchup they're they're going to make
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: plays they're a great defense they're a great back half
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: we feel pretty good about ourselves too and james said
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: it best it is about us more than about them
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: and so we got to show up play our style
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: of football and our brand, and you know what? At
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: the end of the day, play for 60 minutes. We
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: respect those guys, and we'll find out what happens.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: All right, we've got another break to take. One more
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: segment with James and Tony. When we come back, we'll
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: flip it, and we'll talk about C.J. Stroud and how
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: you guys get to him and disrupt the Texans' offense.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: This is Jags HQ, and you're listening to Jaguars Radio.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: About seven, eight minutes left with Tony Buscelli and James
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Gladstone here on Jags HQ from London. We're glad you're
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: with us. As we mentioned going to the break, we're
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: going to talk about CJ Stroud. I thought the numbers
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: were really interesting with him. And that is, is if
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you blitz him, he has great success. His completion percentage
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: is over 70 and his yards per attempt is almost nine.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But if you rush four against him, His completion percentage
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: is in the low 40s, and his yards per attempt
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: is not even 6. So, seems like a pretty obvious
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: way to go, but normally you think about quarterbacks attacking
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: with more gets you better results, but not with this guy, huh?
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He's getting blitzed at a really low rate this season,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and obviously he's doing a good job despite that being
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: something that he can already cope with if he is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: getting blitzed, but he's.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Got a ton of poise. You don't see it even
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: on his face.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: You don't see it in his reactions he's not going
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to get all that stressed when more bodies are coming
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: at him necessarily but he's not getting blitz at a
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: high rate and he's taking advantage of it you know
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: he's seeing the field very cleanly at this stage he
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: hasn't turned the ball over he's really protecting it and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: obviously that was a big point of emphasis for him
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: coming into the season and uh you know he's really
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: doing a good job of making sure that that's not
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: standing in their way uh because right now they are
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: pushing the ball down the field they're having success through
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the air and deep deep down the field in particular.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So that's going to be a real test for our
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: defense as a whole to make sure that the coverage
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: matches with the rush and is able to have some
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: role in stressing him, speeding him up so that our
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: back end can get their hand on the ball for
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the first time this season facing C.J.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Stroud. He hadn't put one in the hand of the defense.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: 185 dropbacks, no interceptions.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, give him a lot of credit because he was
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: criticized after last year in the playoffs.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Four picks in New England, yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: All offseason, I give him a lot.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: Of credit because of the tough, the mental toughness and
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: the perseverance is that it just put his head down and,
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: and continuing to do the work that he knows he
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: had to do. And, and he has come out and
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: played at a high level for them. This, this season,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: he's James said it, he's seeing it. He's not throwing,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: he's thrown to the right guy. He has weapons outside.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Got Nico Collins back. He had a big week and
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: he's a guy who's played very well against us.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Five straight hundred yard games for Nico Collins.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: He's a big physical receiver.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: He's one of those guys that, in my opinion, is
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: never covered because he's a great 50-50 guy. He's not
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: afraid to go up and put his body in harm's
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: way and take big shots. We saw it last week
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: against the Titans, and so that combination, and when you
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: have a quarterback feeling it the way C.J. Stroud is
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: feeling it right now, playing at a high level, doing
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: a great job, the onus is on the defense, both
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: rush coverage, as James just mentioned, and It's quite a challenge.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: It seems almost like CJ plays better when it's just
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: instinctual instead of by design. And speaking of instinctual, one
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: of his old cohorts, Marvin Harrison Jr., is coming back
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: into the fold in his world. What does that do
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: for the Texans, and were you a player on that trade?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: No is the answer to the back half of that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: But I think that chemistry matters, and in particular with– CJ,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I think that matters even more. I think it's clear
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: they had a connection back in college, and I think
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: that'll be a relatively seamless jump up where we'll see
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Marvin this weekend. We're going to have to prepare for him,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and how they choose to deploy him or use him
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I think will be limited just because of the time
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on task, but nonetheless that chemistry, once you build off
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: of that, it's hard to see that evaporate unless it's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a significant stretch of time, and I think that'll That'll
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: be something that shows itself early in the down.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: And I won't be surprised if they get Tank Dale
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: back as well, coming off the injury, a devastating knee.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Injury two years ago, two seasons ago.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: And he's a guy we know well who can absolutely
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: go and is a big play threat.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: And when he gets the ball in his hand, he's
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: hard to get to the ground.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: He's shifty.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: He's very explosive and full participant of practice yesterday. And so,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: He's just getting more weapons. Marvin Harrison Jr., Tank Dell,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: got Nico, got Noel. They got really good skill guys.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Schultz is the tight end. And then when you've got
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: a quarterback playing well, our secondary, our rush, linebackers and
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: coverage all have a big challenge in front of them,
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: and it's going to be fun to watch.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: And To'o To'o, the linebacker, may be coming back as well.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: But going back to Marvin Harrison Jr. just for a minute,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, only like five catches on the year because
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: there's obviously not a lot of film to look at
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: of him. What does he do best from a scouting
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: standpoint that they may try to utilize?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I think for a guy his stature, he's a very
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: smooth mover and can track the ball with real clarity.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I think some of the means of how to activate
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: that skill set could show up in some really specific
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: instances and see that stuff jump out really more so
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: in red zone areas and things of that nature knowing
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: that By default, he's not some sudden separator, but going
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to be somebody that, you know, if given a little
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: pocket over the shoulder, can go ahead and reel one in.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So I think that those are the things that also
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: are rooted in a sense, a feel, an instinct, a
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: connection like that of one between CJ and Marvin that
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: they have from their past. Rather than, hey, we're going
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to have you work a route concept that requires timing
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: with another player alongside you or things of that nature
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that can require a little bit more of a runway
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to get right.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Before you guys leave, could you just touch on, going
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: back a little bit to last Sunday's game, just the
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: work that is put in during the week on clock management,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: game management, that kind of preparation? Because I'm not sure
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: if people realize you have a coach that's dedicated to that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Someone on your staff.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Who's completely dedicated to that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Significant amount of work that It goes back to the offseason,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and Liam puts an extreme emphasis on it and spends
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a ton of time with both Shane Waldron, John Dykema,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Brian Zanders gets involved in that as well. And just
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to work through all the different scenarios that could present themselves,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: how we would prefer to respond to those depending on
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the dynamics at work, and then weekly updating that as
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the season goes along with real-life examples and to sort
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: of play those out. on our own to see how
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: we would check ourselves. Each Friday, Shane gets up in
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: front of the team and delivers a walkthrough of some
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: of the stuff around the league just to keep them
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: well informed and in tune. You could really get lost
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: in the sauce, so to speak, and give way too
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: much information, but Shane does such a great job of
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: delivering that stuff very clearly, very concise, so that our
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: players are well informed and have a good grip on
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: really what to be aware of in certain Instances, you
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: saw our guys right off the jump, right? When there's
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: eight seconds on the clock and that ball ends up
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: getting kicked for a return, Amir, Josh Cameron, the first
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: two there, they're already holding the one up to say, hey,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: there's one second still.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: On the clock.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: They knew that they needed, if they were having a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: return and it wasn't a clear touchdown, that you got
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to get down before that buzzer. That's a good indication,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a good sign of just in that moment when emotions
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: are high, right? That stuff is happening so fast. But
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: their minds were operating really slow, and that's a good thing.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was cool to watch. And, I mean,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: it's always awesome when you've got a coach who says, hey, look,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I'm going to bring a team in to help manage
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: situations like that in a game because, I mean, it
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: makes the difference between winning and losing. Look what happened
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: to Washington Commanders, for heaven's sakes, with their game against
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: the New York Giants. So it's cool to see. But
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: real quick on Cam Little. You've got a different snapper.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: You've got the snaps that were all over the place.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Logan Cook as well handling them. I mean, holy cow.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I've got to start with Logan. Obviously, D-Ham is cool.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: That is not easy to do what he was doing.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Logan was operating at a level that I don't think
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: gets enough attention. The way he was controlling, I mean,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the athleticism that it takes to get up from your knee,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: snag a high snap, Set it down. Make sure laces
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: are in a correct place. Oh, by the way, your
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: foot had moved when you went up for the ball.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Now you got to just go on your heel, raise
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: your toe so that Cam doesn't kick your foot. I mean,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: there's got to be some still shots out there of
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Logan's left foot off the ground. Heel's the only thing
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that touching Cam's foot coming right underneath of it I
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: mean there was some really really high level stuff going
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: on from him and I don't I don't think that
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: there's been enough mention of that up to this point
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: but Cam obviously having you know a moment in time
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: that he would love to be able to experience one
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: game after the other he lives for that moment I
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: think that that was one where he did not flinch,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: he did not blink, neither did anybody else that was watching.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: The protection in that instance was awesome, everybody locking in,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: because that's a front across from him that's blocked plenty
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of field goals, plenty of extra points.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Especially long ones.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Especially long ones. A year ago, Rams had one blocked
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: against them in Philadelphia for the win, and they had
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: a walk-off touchdown. I mean, that was not an easy
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: group to do that against. A ton of credit to
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: really those three for the execution. Obviously, after having a
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: moment where they missed one just before. So being able
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to respond to that and not be too nervous about
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: it all, I mean, it says a lot about what
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the special teams coaches do in the lead-up to those
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: moments and then the players themselves coming through in the clutch.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Great story to tell.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Guys, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Great to be here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Best of luck on Sunday. Looking forward to it.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: So are we. And we'll be.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Back with more here on Jags HQ right after this
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Normally we would have the UF Health injury report for
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: you in this segment. UF Health is the official health
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: care provider of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: However.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Because of rules and where the Texans are and when
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: they'll release theirs, we don't have it this week.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: There will be one.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: You can look for it on social media a little
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: bit later. But the Texans don't have to release it
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: until 3.30 Central Time today. We're going to be on
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: the air for that one. As Tony and James were leaving,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: you said something interesting, that you were making marks on
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: your iPad.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Marks on your iPad.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Well, when you watch film, and what James was explaining
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: there about Logan Cook and his left foot, so when
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Logan is getting ready to set up camp for a
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: field goal, he has his left foot in the ground,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: the knee is up, and then he's on his right knee.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: And he's marked a spot in front of his left toe.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: And so when he catches it, he comes down and
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: holds it out in front of his toe. Well, when
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: he had to go get the air and snaps up high...
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: He is completely losing where his left foot is at.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: It's up in the air. And so when he comes down,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: he is literally finding the exact spot somehow. It's not
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: like he has a little mini can of spray paint
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: and he marks a little dot on the field. Hey,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: the ball goes here. And when he comes back down,
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: he's like, oh, there's that little spray paint spot. He's
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: got a kind of marking in his mind, and he
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: literally got it right back where it was.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Supposed to be at. You think he made that mark
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: in his mind before the snap of the ball.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Realizing, okay.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, because, you know, he's sitting there thinking, I've
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: got to go on Hamilton here. So, you know, there's
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: no telling where the snap's going to go.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: But, I mean, what James talked about, about his holding
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: ability and going back to– We talked about this earlier
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: in the week, and that Joe DiCamillis, who is one
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: of the great special teams coordinator coaches. He's the Raiders
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: special teams coordinator now.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: He's with the Raiders.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Okay. Said to me years ago, said that Logan Cook
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: is the best holder in the National Football League.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: And people take that. He's a holder. Three, four, five
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: plays a game.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Big deal, right? Right, absolutely.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: It won him a game. Yeah.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: And losing Ross Matysik, your old pro long snapper, could
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: have cost him the game. They were two of three.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Two of three with Devon Hamilton. That's outstanding.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: I just wish that Devon Hamilton had some more opportunities
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: at snapping in that game. Right. Wink, wink. Come on, coach,
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: go for the three.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're staying in the red zone. The coach didn't
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: want to do it because he was worried about this.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Well, he was worried about it, and I get it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: But at the same token, I felt like you've got
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: to get the points in those situations.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: But you know what?
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: It worked out.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Who else do you think could be a long snapper?
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: On this team?
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, typically most teams have a tight end
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: or a linebacker that is a backup long snapper.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Can I interrupt you? Someone asked me this this week
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and I didn't have an answer. Why isn't Robert Hainsey
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: the backup?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: It's a great question. A lot of times the center is.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, Brad Meester was the backup long snapper, I believe,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: back in the day.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I don't recall whether he was or wasn't, but it
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: just makes sense, right?
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I remember when I was a second-year player in the league,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: the head coach told me, he said, learn the long snap.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I want you to be our backup long snap.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I said, what?
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I've never snapped in my life. He said, I don't care, learn.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: 16, 17-year career as a long snapper, making over a
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: million dollars a year. Sign me up.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: That's pretty good living, right?
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Please don't sign me up. All right, let's take a break.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: We'll come back. We have got more of this fine
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: program right after this on Jaguars Radio.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: More Jags HQ for you from the Hyundai Library in
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: the Grove in London. Brian Sexton along with Jeff Lagerman.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: We haven't hardly touched on perhaps the most important player
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: on Sunday against the Texans defense, and that is quarterback
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence, who's playing really good football and needs to
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: have his best game ready for this defense.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: He's a little unimportant.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say so.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: I was looking at some numbers this week and was
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: just kind of adding up because we were talking earlier
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: about the front guys with obviously Will Anderson Jr. and
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: then Daniil Hunter. And then, of course, they've got Jadavion Clowney.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: I forgot about that.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, he's a good football player. So he's
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: in that rotation. And they can actually get– they have
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: packages where they get all three of those guys on
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: the field at the same time. And Will is that
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: stand-up Lawrence Taylor spinner package guy. And it's impressive to watch.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: And I was looking at the numbers. You know, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: always look at the career sack numbers of everybody. And
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Daniel Hunter is phenomenal. He's got 117.5 career sacks, which
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: is crazy. I mean, you're 100 sacks. I mean, you're
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: a Hall of Famer, and Will has 37.5, but he's
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: only in his fourth year. And Jadavion Clowney has 68
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: in his career. So the three of them combined, 223
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: career sacks. But here's the challenge for Trevor Lawrence. First
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: of all, you've got to make sure that you manage
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: the pocket with those guys. And then the five starting
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: defensive backs that the Houston Texans have, they're all in
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: year three to year five. Okay, so give me a
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: guess of how many interceptions you think those five guys
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: might have, and they're only, again, in years three to
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: year five.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: We're talking about cumulative?
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, cumulative.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: 24.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Okay, so I'm going to give them to you individually,
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: and then I'll add them up. Kamari Lasseter has seven,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: and he's only in year three. Kalen Bullock at safety
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: has nine. He's in year three.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: 16.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, Reid Blankenship in year five has ten. Jalen Petrie
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: has 10. He's in year five. And then Daryl Stingley
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: has 15.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Are you kidding?
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: No.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: He has 15.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: 51. 51.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Between those five guys, and they're all in years three
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: to five. That's a crazy number.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: You talk about Russian cover. That is the epitome of.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: So people wonder why that defense is so good. Look
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: at those two numbers that they have from up front
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: and in the back end.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: And the quarterback has to have a big day against that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: On Sunday, we'll come back and talk more about Trevor
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Lawrence right after this. This is Jags HQ, and you're
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: listening on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: All right, we're reaching the end of this fine radio program,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: but we can still talk about the quarterback on Jags HQ.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: We mentioned what he's looking at, right? A secondary that
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: has 51 interceptions, career combined, and a front that has
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: three guys who have about 200 sacks combined. So it's
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: a tall order.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: But the quarterback is undaunted. He said, yep, they're good.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: So are we.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Well, and I think you've got to give him as
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: much help as you can, so you want to have
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: the protection be there. But, again, I'm going to go
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: back to that thing about that if you are playing
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: a defense that's going to play you nickel and you
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: can go to 13 and 12 personnel with just two
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: and three tight ends on the field, you've got to
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: be able to run the ball into that. And I
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: believe the Jaguars can because I think the tight ends
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: are good blockers that the Jaguars have. That will help
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Trevor out immensely. And Trevor's got to be on his game.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: His decision's got to be, you know, and I didn't
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: snap my fingers. If anybody could hear it, you know,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I would do it real hard. But that's the kind
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: of decision-making that he has to have in this game.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: And it's not that the ball needs to come out
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: fast all the time. That's not what it's about. It's
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: just his decision-making has to be clear and crisp.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Do you see a weakness on this defense? And there's
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: one in particular.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: No.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: They have given up. They have three players in that
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: secondary that have given up at least eight explosive plays
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: through the first five weeks of the season. They're Reed
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Blankenship and Lassiter, and there's one other whose name escapes me.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: They're the only team in the league that has three
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: defenders who have given up each eight explosive plays.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: I don't look at that as a weakness just because
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: I think that if you look at that unit from
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: last year, there was zero weakness. I think that this year,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: sometimes when you get a little bit busy reading your
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: press clippings about how good you are, sometimes you can
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: be a little off track.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: And I think that this defense is back on track
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: right now. So I don't go into this saying, hey, look,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: they gave up explosive.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: There's not a place you can attack necessarily.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: I think you just got to be able to do
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: your thing. Sometimes it's not about game planning specifically. Hey,
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: we're going to attack this guy and this guy and
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: this guy. I think so much as it is about
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: doing what you do and doing it at a high level.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: So the running game in 12 and 13 personnel.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: And I think that's what the Jaguars have been doing.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, they have been doing that. We've seen Borkasher
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: and Brenton Strange on the field at the same time.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: We've even seen Colesio get some snaps and Quentin Morris
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: get some snaps and three tight ends. So I think
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: you've just got to continue to do that and wear
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: them out.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: We talk so much about the front and the back end.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: What about the guys in the middle, the linebacking group?
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Well, Zero's pretty good now. He's physical, and that's the
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: thing that is impressive about him. Now, Toto's been a
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: very good player for them at the other linebacking position,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: but he has been hurt. Jake Hansen's been playing a
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: bunch of snaps, and he's okay.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: He's made better by the surroundings.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: He's not as good as Toto, and obviously not as
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: good as Zero. Zero's a special player now. I mean,
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: he is their... emotional leader in a lot of different ways.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I have a different name for him, but I won't
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: say it on the air.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I would love to see 85 tangle up with 0
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: and block his rear end into the you-know-what.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: And let's leave for our final break on that. His
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: rear end going into you-know-what, courtesy of Brenton Strange. We'll
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: take a break.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Lots of grass stains on the back end.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: We're back after this on Jaguars Radio.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jags HQ continues right now.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: We are just about done on a Thursday in London.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Jaguars play Sunday. 9.32 kickoff. For those of you listening
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: in Jacksonville on 1010XL and 92.5 FM, we will start
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: with the Publix tailgate show at the early hour of 6.30.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Mike Dempsey is thrilled.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: Football for breakfast.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we go all the way through the postgame show,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: so we'll have all the coverage for you as well,
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: including the play-by-play, of which Jeff Loggin will be there.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: So here's my question to wrap this up. The Texans
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: are coming in, as we talked about. I mean, you
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: just have to assume the tough team, tough-minded, knowing that
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: their season might rest on this game. You've got a
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Jaguars team that's coming off of an emotional win. I mean,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: they were at the highest of highs. Do the Jaguars
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: have to work to match the intensity level here this week?
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: I think the Jaguars have done a great job under
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Liam Cohn of being ready to play every game. It's
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: not that the results have been awesome, but they have
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: been ready to play every game. I expect nothing less
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: this week. And I think having a division rival come in,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: it's not very difficult to remember what happened last year,
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: and it's not very difficult to get ready for that matchup.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Do you think... Can you... Does Liam mention, hey, we
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: blew a 19-point lead? He might say it differently than that,
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: but are you playing that card? We gave up 19
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: fourth-quarter points. We had these guys, and we had a
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: chance to kick them when they were down, and instead
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: we gave them a hand up.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: I think you just go back to what he established
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: last year in that, look, this is our rival, and
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: treating it as such. And you really don't have to
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: do anything else. I mean, a lot of times when
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: you have a team like the Texans, which... were the
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: only formidable opponent that the Jaguars had last year in
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: the division. I get the Colts were great at first,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: but they faded off. But down the stretch, it was
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: the Texans.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: It was the Texans.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: And so sometimes things don't need to be said. They're
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: just understood. And the Jaguars players know about this Texans team,
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: and I guarantee you they are going to treat them
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: as if they are a 4-1 team and not a
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: 1-4 team.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: They, the football people, can't think this way, but you've
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: got a division opponent Sunday. Then you get your bye week,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: and then you get another division opponent with the Colts.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, you have an opportunity here if you play
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: your best football the next couple weeks to really have
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: your arms wrapped around this division.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: It's ours.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: And you get to go home to the friendly confines
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: of your home stadium, and you get to wear some
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: really cool jerseys.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's right.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: I like those, by the way. I know some people
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: are kind of mixed on them. I think they're fantastic.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: In fact, it's this script right here that you can
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: probably see on this shirt. You look good in one.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: I meant the jersey, big fella.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: No, too old for that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: All right. That'll do it. Thanks for joining us here
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: on 1010XL 92.5 and all the Jags channels. We'll talk
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: to you Sunday from the pitch at Wembley Stadium in London.