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What Fred Taylor wants to see from the Jags in the HOF Game | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly visit with Pride of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor and yes, host of the Pivot podcast,
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  Speaker 1: which is blowing up on social media. Fred, it is
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  Speaker 1: great to see you again and here we are back
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  Speaker 1: to football. Back to football and g in d J
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  Speaker 1: p Uh. Appreciate the plug right there. Man to pivot
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  Speaker 1: A lot of work. Give me a linebackers. The same
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  Speaker 1: thing I said about golf is I really have a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker in front of me and that little white ball.
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  Speaker 1: Linebackers are easy. This pivot, this media stuff can be challenging,
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  Speaker 1: but I can I can say this I created you
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  Speaker 1: guys or even giving me a confidence to think I
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  Speaker 1: can be a part of, you know, the media space.
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  Speaker 1: So without that in the last several years that we've
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  Speaker 1: been doing pre postgame radio in bowl analysis, game day,
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  Speaker 1: without that, it wouldn't be no Pivot. So I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you all. Man. We Fred. It's it's a two way straight.
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  Speaker 1: We're glad to have You're what you say matters, it
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  Speaker 1: carries weight, and I think you've really developed over the
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  Speaker 1: last few years the way to get that across to
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  Speaker 1: people in a positive way. And it takes work, and
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  Speaker 1: you've done the work and you continue to do the work,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about, right. But people think
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  Speaker 1: we're just talking sometimes. I think we're just putting stuff
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  Speaker 1: out of our you know what, if Channing Crowder was
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  Speaker 1: on here, he would actually say it. But I'm not Channing.
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  Speaker 1: But we try to. You know, we gotta be fair,
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  Speaker 1: but we also gotta, you know, be truthful and transparent.
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  Speaker 1: And I've learned that you guys also have taught me that.
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  Speaker 1: Um So, man again, I appreciate y'all for making me
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  Speaker 1: better at this. Fred Taylor with us, we're back to football, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: It's Hall of Fame game week. The Jaguars will have
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  Speaker 1: had eleven days of training camp, I think only eight
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  Speaker 1: practices before they suit up tonight against the Raiders. That
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  Speaker 1: is a quick turnaround from from zero to sixty in
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  Speaker 1: less than two Yeah, indeed. You know, but those guys,
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  Speaker 1: they've had some O T A times. Those guys they
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  Speaker 1: knew this was coming. Their coaches knew this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure in a in a legal way, they were
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate that to those guys. And if it matters,
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  Speaker 1: if it's important to the guys that are currently on
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  Speaker 1: the roster, the guys who are gonna make their appearances,
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  Speaker 1: uh in this game. Then they did some extra studying.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing some extra studying throughout the week to make
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  Speaker 1: sure they get there. And uh, I know in my
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  Speaker 1: days of training cam JP, the one thing I hated
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  Speaker 1: the most, if anything other than that a hundred plus
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  Speaker 1: degree uh heat there in Jacksonville, I hated too many practices.
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  Speaker 1: So this for this is right up some guy's alley,
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  Speaker 1: because they're gonna get better as they go. The worst
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  Speaker 1: thing you can do is just hit on your teammates
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  Speaker 1: for too long. Now they get an opportunity to go
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  Speaker 1: hit someone else. Fredd Is. The years have going on,
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  Speaker 1: the philosophy has changed a bit of playing time in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, and th Peters should have that. Hey, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna play. Some of the defensive guys, especially even the
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  Speaker 1: secondary will start, maybe not play long the offense. Those
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  Speaker 1: a different animal. Top receivers aren't going. Of course, Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence will touch the field. E TN is not gonna play.
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  Speaker 1: That's the idea. Uh, there's a balance there. You want
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  Speaker 1: to see everybody's new around here. You want to see
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  Speaker 1: some of your guys play, But hey, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football to be played between now and opening day
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  Speaker 1: September eleven. Yeah, coaches coach players played. The coach's job
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  Speaker 1: is to put those guys in the best position possible
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  Speaker 1: so that the team has success. You know, I remember
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  Speaker 1: that Jack del Rio days a lot of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times we felt like this step child
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  Speaker 1: because Jack was such a defensive minded guys. He took
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  Speaker 1: care of his defense. Coach Peterson is an offensive mindy guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking care of his offense, but he also wants
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  Speaker 1: to see the young, talented guys that are there on
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  Speaker 1: the defense get out there and see how they respond.
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  Speaker 1: And and a lot of times these moments can be tests,
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  Speaker 1: a character test of nothing else, because I'm sure for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, they know what they have in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of players, but they want to see how they
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  Speaker 1: respond to react to having to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: play so early. Uh. And again, I think they're all
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  Speaker 1: gonna make smart decisions with the rep count who's out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Andrews that that might present themselves this early
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  Speaker 1: in the season. So you know, I trust coach Peterson.
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  Speaker 1: He's been there, he's you know, he's one on the
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  Speaker 1: highest level, having won the Super Bowl there in Philly,
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  Speaker 1: so I trust his decisions. Fred Taylor with US Pride
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  Speaker 1: of the Jaguars, running back Travis c g N's out
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  Speaker 1: is not gonna play in this game. At least season
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  Speaker 1: have been practicing though, which is good, and he looks great. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll see some young running backs tonight, including a
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  Speaker 1: draft pick from this year, Snoop Conner from Old Miss.
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  Speaker 1: And I must say, Fred, he has a little more
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  Speaker 1: speed than you think once he's out there in the open.
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  Speaker 1: He's a guy that had a physical kind of nature
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  Speaker 1: at Old Miss. I don't know how much you know
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  Speaker 1: about Snoop Conner, but it'll be exciting to see a
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  Speaker 1: young running back of the field. Of course, I mean
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  Speaker 1: if you, if you if what gets me excited as
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, he has more you know, more juice, more
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  Speaker 1: speed when he's out there. One guy who comes to
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  Speaker 1: mind is Jimmy Smith on clock. Jimmy wasn't a fast guy,
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  Speaker 1: but when you put the ball in the air, he's
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  Speaker 1: faster than anybody on the field. You see what he
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  Speaker 1: did with me in that Dolphins playoff game when he
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  Speaker 1: ran me down on a ninety yard Uh So with that,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's about game time, what you can do
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and having a young guy out there getting reps,
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  Speaker 1: you know, growing, going through the process, learning and speed
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL game. That's what you want to see.
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  Speaker 1: So again, he'll take bulk of the carries. Give him
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  Speaker 1: a chance to grow in that position because they're looking
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  Speaker 1: for him to, you know, be a key addition to
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  Speaker 1: this team, whether this year at some point and also
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  Speaker 1: going forward. Fred a lot of eyeballs tonight on Trayvon Walker,
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  Speaker 1: the number one overall pick, expected to get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of time the game. I didn't realize how tall
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  Speaker 1: he was until I walked up beside him. He's about
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  Speaker 1: six ft six. He's all that, he's all the two
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  Speaker 1: seventy year whatever they say is listed long arms. He's
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  Speaker 1: got everything you want and has flashed that athleticism early
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  Speaker 1: in training camp. You want to see the big guy
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  Speaker 1: play and stand out. I think in the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame game, oh, without a doubt, and we all know
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  Speaker 1: it's early, so whatever, you know, whatever happens in this game, No,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna look, the fans are gonna respond. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: react certain types of ways and say, Okay, we made
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  Speaker 1: the right pick, or maybe we need to see more,
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  Speaker 1: or oh it's early. There's gonna be so many opinions
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  Speaker 1: for him by however many players he played. The good
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  Speaker 1: thing is what I want to see most JP is
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  Speaker 1: for him to get out there just excited, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some high energy running around. Obviously, I want to see
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  Speaker 1: him make it out of the game healthy, so we
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  Speaker 1: can see a lot more of them. But when it
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  Speaker 1: really matters. So wait, you're saying fans are gonna have
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  Speaker 1: an opinion one way or another. That's that's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: That's what that's what that's what we do. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we do. If he you know, if there's
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  Speaker 1: a pancake or if there's a sack, there's a just
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  Speaker 1: a stell mate. If he plays five plays, twenty plays,
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  Speaker 1: someone's gonna have something to say. That's that's just what
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  Speaker 1: we do. Especially in the media and the fans that
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  Speaker 1: are secondary media with their family members, they'll also have
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  Speaker 1: opinions and they'll tweet it, you know, they'll repost clips,
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  Speaker 1: isolation clips, whatever it may be. We're all opinionated, and
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  Speaker 1: one thing we aren't doing, we aren't taking those snaps.
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  Speaker 1: So we know nothing. So we leave it up to
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  Speaker 1: those guys to go out there, get excited about being back,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready, uh to play football, and get ready to
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  Speaker 1: have the best season, um of their career. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you gotta look at it. Every year, JP, this year
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be the best of my career. Don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about the next one, or this game is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: be the best game my career. He's stacking together and
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  Speaker 1: it starts, you know here today and hopefully, uh we
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to see some good plays out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with his final thought, whether the Jags were
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game because Tony Basselli was
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  Speaker 1: elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and trying
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  Speaker 1: and ceremony coming up Saturday. I know you've been asked
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  Speaker 1: about this throughout the off season, but this is a
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  Speaker 1: huge moment for the Jaguars organization to finally have somebody
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  Speaker 1: in Canton, and I must say, your next freend, how
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  Speaker 1: about that? You know, JP is certainly a huge moment.
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  Speaker 1: I will be there during the enshrinement. I will also
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  Speaker 1: be there for the private party. I'm not missing it
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  Speaker 1: for for the world talked to be selling we were
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas some time ago, a few months back, doing
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  Speaker 1: a bold city brigade or deal. And he's excited. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. He's so excited. Um, I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit back and count the amount of drinks he
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  Speaker 1: flushed down. I don't know if that you know if
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  Speaker 1: I should, but I want to, you know, cheer and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate with the big fellow man well deserved. Uh. What
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  Speaker 1: I don't want JP is for the uh the I
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  Speaker 1: might have to count the amount of your next comments
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  Speaker 1: that I expect to get. I don't. I'm not looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to that part of it, but I am looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to celebrateing with Tony and however the chips fall,
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  Speaker 1: they will Coach Coughlin should be in that equation as
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguar myself and uh, Jimmy Smith as well. Red
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  Speaker 1: great stuff. As always, We'll see you this weekend and camp.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to a JP