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Jaguars Reporters: Monday, February 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Dabos Meeny told like Peterson, look out for Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be something really big in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: and I definitely want you to pay attention to him.
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Speaker 1: And Trevor was laughing like, now this guy's my head coach.
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Speaker 1: Welcome the Jaguars Reporters presented by t I A A
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Speaker 1: Bank with Brian Sexton, John Osher, Ashlyn Sullivan, and J. P. Shadrick.
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Speaker 1: Presended by t I A A Bank starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Reporters podcast. Today is Monday, February seventh.
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Speaker 1: JP Shadrick, John Oser, Ashlyn Sullivan, Brian Sexton reacting to
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Speaker 1: the hiring and announcement and introduction of Doug Peterson's the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach. We've got confidence, You've got some calm
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Speaker 1: demeanor about him. He's been there, done that, but it
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Speaker 1: really doesn't rub it in your face too much. It
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Speaker 1: feels like, and yes, he's driven to do it again,
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Speaker 1: go win another Lombardi Trophy. And and Brian, that's a
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Speaker 1: good tone at least to get things started, you know. JP.
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Speaker 1: The thing that start out to me the most was
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Speaker 1: that he sounded like a professional football coach right, none
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Speaker 1: of this plus two and all the stuff that you
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Speaker 1: put up on billboards around your your building. Just a
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Speaker 1: straight out football coach. And after a year of a
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Speaker 1: college guy running the show, it's refreshing to have someone
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Speaker 1: like Doug Peterson who played the position UH for thirteen years,
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Speaker 1: right played in the NFL, and then his coach for
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Speaker 1: more than a decade, a dozen years. It's it feels
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Speaker 1: like the right fit, the right guy. And I know
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Speaker 1: he was on a lot of lists early. John and
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I talked about him a drive time. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you talked about him with John and Bucky on
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Speaker 1: the Huddle Up podcast. This one was always near the
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Speaker 1: top of the list, Ashlyn, this one just sounded different
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Speaker 1: in the press conference the other day, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what the word is. You think, Okay, hi are good people? Yeah, great,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty easy to do, but in the NFL that
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Speaker 1: that's not as easy to do. And I thought it
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Speaker 1: was cool when he was talking about bringing assistant coach
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Speaker 1: since the building. He said, you want to bring in
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Speaker 1: people that you want to work with that are good people.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think it should be overlooked. Everything we've
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Speaker 1: heard about Doug Peterson. The amount of texting calls we've
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Speaker 1: gotten saying you're gonna love this guy. He's in a
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Speaker 1: fit in so well, he's just a good person and
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Speaker 1: especially after the year we just had, that is definitely
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Speaker 1: something that can't be overlooked. And John, he's got that
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Speaker 1: track record of success obviously to go with it as
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Speaker 1: an assistant coach went on to Kansas City comes Back.
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Speaker 1: Of course has a Lombardi Trophy and Mr Common said
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Speaker 1: that in the statement the other night during the announcement
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Speaker 1: Championship credentials, Well, he's got a skin on the wall.
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Speaker 1: That's a big deal when you're trying to stand in
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Speaker 1: front of a room. Well, there's only eight people involved
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Speaker 1: with the NFL who as a head coach had held
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Speaker 1: up the Lombardi and he's one of them. So that
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Speaker 1: matters a lot. And we've talked some and Brian touched
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Speaker 1: on it about how it just feels right and about
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Speaker 1: having a professional coach read in a college coach, and
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Speaker 1: usually organization ations who hired head coaches tend to go
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Speaker 1: the opposite, especially after they fired a head coach, because
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of your instinct. Okay, we didn't want that,
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Speaker 1: but now we want this. You can overdo that sometimes,
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Speaker 1: but on those fronts, meaning a guy who has been there,
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Speaker 1: who stood at the front of the room in the
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Speaker 1: NFL before, who knows how to lead professional athletes. UM,
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Speaker 1: I guess you can overdo the opposite thing, but this
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Speaker 1: time you felt like you needed the opposite thing. And
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Speaker 1: but it also feels like they didn't just go for Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go and find the opposite. They went out
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Speaker 1: and found the right version of that, because you guys
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Speaker 1: talked to him and heard him on Saturday. UM. Very impressive,
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Speaker 1: and I liked what JP said at the top. There's
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Speaker 1: sort of an inner confidence that he doesn't feel like
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Speaker 1: he has to go prove it to you in an interview.
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Speaker 1: He sort of knows I've got to prove this with
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Speaker 1: my daily talk every day. I guess I'm laughing. It's
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Speaker 1: just so refreshing after what we've been through, you know,
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Speaker 1: j P. I can I point out real quick. I
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Speaker 1: was in Kansas City for the a f C Championship
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Speaker 1: game about ten days ago and talk to some friends
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Speaker 1: in the Chiefs organization and some folks in the media
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Speaker 1: out there who all said that he has this calming
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Speaker 1: presence about him like Andy Reid does, and that he
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Speaker 1: professionally wants to be the kind of man and coach
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Speaker 1: that Andy Reid is. And I just can't help but
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Speaker 1: think over the last year how much this organization needs,
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Speaker 1: you know, a big brother to put its arm around
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Speaker 1: him and say, hey, it's gonna be all right. You know,
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Speaker 1: we we know what it takes. Come on, let's get
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Speaker 1: you where we need to go. And that's kind of
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Speaker 1: what it felt like on on Saturday afternoon. To me,
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Speaker 1: what do you think Ashton about that? It's it's something
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Speaker 1: that's been missing around here for a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I like what you guys say about It's
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Speaker 1: not cockiness, it's confidence. And I think it's because he
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily need this. He talked about the year off
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Speaker 1: he had living in South Florida, Gulf things, spending time
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Speaker 1: with his family. This isn't a pressurized situation where he
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Speaker 1: had to get a job right away. This was what
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Speaker 1: he said was the right fit for him. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's where we find that that confidence that this
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Speaker 1: is something that Jaguars approached him. He doesn't feel the
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Speaker 1: pressure that he had to go get this coaching job
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Speaker 1: right away. He had options, and he felt like this
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Speaker 1: was the right option. Can't you guys visualize? And again,
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Speaker 1: we're not behind the scenes to be in coaching meetings
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Speaker 1: or players meetings, But Doug Peterson strikes me as the
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Speaker 1: kind of guy who if there's a crisis and there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of people coming in that out of the
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Speaker 1: room saying how we gonna do this? How are we
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Speaker 1: gonna do this, that he's sort of the guy stepping
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Speaker 1: back and after a few minutes said, Okay, everybody, let's
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Speaker 1: just take a breath, let's figure out where we're going
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Speaker 1: with this. Here's what we're gonna do. And everybody sort
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Speaker 1: of looks at him and says, okay, Well, if he's
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Speaker 1: saying it, I believe it. Yeah, that's sort of a
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Speaker 1: vague description, but again I was around that for seven
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Speaker 1: or eight years with Tony Dungey who sort of lad
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Speaker 1: that way. There's something to that in NFL, as a
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Speaker 1: guy who can sort of look at you and say,
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Speaker 1: I've seen this before, this is gonna be okay, we
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Speaker 1: just have to take a deep breath and calm down.
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Speaker 1: And that's what he feels like. He's giving the entire
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Speaker 1: organization and I know it's a generality, but it sort
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Speaker 1: of feels that way. No more deep dives. The deep
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Speaker 1: dives have been done years ago with Doug Peterson. We'll
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Speaker 1: take our first time out or return with Ashland's thoughts
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Speaker 1: on player reaction to the hiring. And this is the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Reporters Podcast. Welcome back to the Jaguars Reporters Podcast.
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, Ashland Sullivan, Brian Sexton, John Osier reaction
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Speaker 1: to the hiring of Doug Peterson as head coach for
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Well, there was some player reaction as well, Ashlan.
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Speaker 1: There were a handful of players that came into the
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Speaker 1: building early on Saturday to meet with their new head
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Speaker 1: coach for the first time. We've seen some of your
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Speaker 1: interviews on social media the last couple of days. Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence was Saturday. That's gone all over the place, which
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Speaker 1: is great. And we saw Josh Allen earlier on Monday.
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Speaker 1: I go out on the Jaguar social media pages. What
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Speaker 1: was the prevailing theme from those guys, and obviously it's
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Speaker 1: important to have those guys on board. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: something kind of truthfully, we ran into it. We were
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Speaker 1: doing a behind the scenes tour which you're gonna see
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Speaker 1: in the first episode of The Hunts in the next
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and Doug Peterson's first day, following him
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Speaker 1: around and as we were in the hallway, we started
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Speaker 1: seeing players coming to meet coach Peterson and and for
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Speaker 1: some reason, I I don't know why, I didn't think
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Speaker 1: that would happen. Maybe it's the off season or being
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Speaker 1: the week, and I didn't think there'd be a lot
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Speaker 1: of player interaction that day. I figured out the next week,
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Speaker 1: when the next Monday starts, they'll all come meet him.
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Speaker 1: And I was kind of surprised to see it was
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Speaker 1: a line out the door to meet their new head coach.
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Speaker 1: And we joked the first person was Tyler Shatley with
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Speaker 1: his two kids, and we were laughing, like, what better
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Speaker 1: person to meet the new head coach than Tyler Shatley
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Speaker 1: being the first one, just because he's so likable. But
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Speaker 1: James Robinson, that was the first time we saw him
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Speaker 1: with crutches and the boot healing. He said he's feeling
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Speaker 1: good at Trevor Lawrence. Of of course, uh laviska channel
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, multit of players coming and meeting their coach,
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Speaker 1: and John, I don't think that should be overlooked. I
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Speaker 1: know it's the right thing to do, but we know
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Speaker 1: players this is their one chance to travel, their one
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Speaker 1: chance to get out of town, and many players made
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Speaker 1: it a priority to meet their coach within the first
8:21
Speaker 1: hour of him being in the building. Yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: a February fifth or six, so it's obviously they travel time. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty smart. I mean I think I would do
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Speaker 1: it too, because you want to make sure you you
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Speaker 1: meet this guy, you get in front of him. I
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Speaker 1: think the list that you mentioned is significant because it's
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys who should be core guys. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And certainly the high profile is Trevor, but Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: as well coming in and saying, hey, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this. I want
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Speaker 1: to make sure this guy knows I'm on board. Um.
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Speaker 1: I'm not overly surprised, because if you're in down, why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't you get there? But I do think it's significant
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Speaker 1: and I liked what I heard from Trevor and Josh
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Speaker 1: in terms of, uh, how it's gonna be easy to
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Speaker 1: get on board with this guy. It's all first day
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Speaker 1: stuff that you'd expect to hear, but there's a there's
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Speaker 1: a sincerity to it as well, Brian. You know, it
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Speaker 1: stuck out to me was how quickly those guys were there.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was a rough season last year, but
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Speaker 1: it ended on a high note. But it showed you that,
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Speaker 1: you know, the stink of last season, that that that
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Speaker 1: beat down that you know, the feeling that guys have
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Speaker 1: had around here in you know, in the in January
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Speaker 1: and February and in there. I mean, these guys are
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Speaker 1: generally excited to get back to it, and you would
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Speaker 1: think they would be wanting to get far away from it,
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Speaker 1: not be here again until the end of March or
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Speaker 1: early April. But you know, there was an enthusiasm at
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Speaker 1: the end of the year for what this team thought
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Speaker 1: it could become. And you saw that was genuine because
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Speaker 1: they were here showing it again to their new coach. Um.
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Speaker 1: We've all seen how players kind of drag out of
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Speaker 1: here after the last interviews and can't wait to not
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Speaker 1: come back for a time. So it told me a
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Speaker 1: lot when they were there and they were there with
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Speaker 1: some energy, with smiles on their faces. You know, after
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Speaker 1: the year they went through maybe they just wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure that it was real and sort of touching
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Speaker 1: themselves and say, like when good point, like when you're
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Speaker 1: in a desert and you and you think you see
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Speaker 1: water and you go up and it's not there. They
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Speaker 1: just want to make sure that it's real. Please tell
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Speaker 1: me this is true. Yeah, not a mirrage, fellas. This
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Speaker 1: is actually the oasis in the desert, or at least
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Speaker 1: we believes it's. Take a drink because it's been a
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Speaker 1: long time. We've been thirsty for a while. Ashlan, What
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Speaker 1: was the best thing you heard out of Trevor when
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Speaker 1: you spoke with him the other day? We saw the interview,
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Speaker 1: but what was your highlight? Yeah, I thought the coolest
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Speaker 1: thing was we told the story on Twitter and within
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Speaker 1: the interview, but it was just cool. We were talking
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Speaker 1: about that phone call that was reported when Peterson finally
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Speaker 1: got the news, and the first thing he did was
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Speaker 1: called Trevor late Thursday night and he said that Trevor
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Speaker 1: said that during the phone call, Doug Peterson shared a
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Speaker 1: story when he was a guest with Dabo Sweeney at Clemson.
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Speaker 1: The two of them had a conversation and Dabbo Sweeney
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Speaker 1: told Doug Peterson, look out for Trevor Lawrence. He's going
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Speaker 1: to be something really big in the NFL, and I
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Speaker 1: definitely want you to pay attention to him. And Trevor
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Speaker 1: was laughing, like, now this guy is my head coach.
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Speaker 1: Like you always hear like it's a small world in
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Speaker 1: the NFL and life comes full circle. But Trevor was saying,
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Speaker 1: this is like his first real example of that coming
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Speaker 1: full circle from college to the NFL. So it was
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Speaker 1: cool to hear that. He's really optimistic. And he did
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Speaker 1: mention Doug Peterson playing college are playing quarterback in the
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Speaker 1: NFL was huge and should not be overlooked. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I think the next steps should not be overlooked either.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson told John you and I in the post
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Speaker 1: game show the other day on Saturday. The first order
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Speaker 1: of business the assistant coaches, the offensive coordinator, and building
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Speaker 1: that staff around Trevor Lawrence. We're seeing all the reports.
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Speaker 1: Everybody sees Twitter, right guys, So John that that's priority
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Speaker 1: number one is get that right? Yeah? It really is.
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Speaker 1: And I would think with this um it sounds like Doug.
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Speaker 1: I think Bucky Brooks mentioned this, but it's what you
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Speaker 1: read about Doug that he's very offensive centric. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: be involved with it. It's gonna look like what it's
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Speaker 1: looked like when he was in Kansas City. In Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor is the name you keep here. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he'll eventually be the guy Zach Taylor,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals coaches brother he is. He is a Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Tree guy, if you will, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: trust there. I thought it was interesting the other day
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Speaker 1: when Doug said he definitely plans to call the plays. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that's not unusual right now. Hackett and the floor did
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Speaker 1: it that way in Green Bay to a lot of success.
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Speaker 1: You can do that very well. And I thought it
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Speaker 1: was also interesting when Doug sort of went quickly on
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Speaker 1: Saturday towards if it's not right, I'll give the play
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Speaker 1: calling over. Briefly, I was a thing in Philly. He's
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Speaker 1: clearly thought about that concept some. And if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: do that, you want a coordinator who you're in lockstep with,
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Speaker 1: who you know is going to be philosophically in step. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who it will be, but it certainly
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Speaker 1: stands to reason that it's gonna be a Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: offense with the coordinator working in lockstep, Ryan, what do
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Speaker 1: you think of that? That's you know that that's one
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Speaker 1: name that has been a warter. Pep Hamilton's was another,
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Speaker 1: but he's been linked to the Texans as well. The
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Speaker 1: possible changes coming down there, But uh, with with the
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Speaker 1: head coach dialing it up and actually calling it, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's more about I think the offensive coordinator in that
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Speaker 1: role would be Hey, get the scripts right, get everything
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Speaker 1: during the week done, get everybody on the right page,
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Speaker 1: and then the head coach comes in and dials it
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Speaker 1: up on Sunday. Well, I called a buddy of mine
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Speaker 1: who was on that staff in Philadelphia with him for
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Speaker 1: a time and said, look, think I really is about collaboration.
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Speaker 1: I mean he really He had Frank Wright, he had
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Speaker 1: john D. Philippo, he had guy who had done it before,
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Speaker 1: so it was easy for him to go down the
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Speaker 1: hallway or have them come down the hallway with plays
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Speaker 1: and to be able to talk about what they wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. JP. To be honest with you, I'm more
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Speaker 1: interested in what he does on the defensive side, because
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Speaker 1: I mean his success on offensive Frank Wright and Johnny
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Speaker 1: Pilippo these guys who have been through, um, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they'll get that part of it right. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: the name Press Taylor was thrown to be on Thursday
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Speaker 1: night Friday morning, and really, I mean a guy, it's
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Speaker 1: exciting to see some of these hot young names be
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Speaker 1: affiliated with his franchise. But the defensive side is where
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in because by all accounts, he turns that
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Speaker 1: over to someone else, he steps aside. Jim Schwartz had
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Speaker 1: it and was the captain of that ship in in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: So if he's going to do that, uh, you would
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Speaker 1: think it would be somebody who had done it before.
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Speaker 1: I hadn't seen many names I saw I might called, well,
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Speaker 1: a long time linebacker in the NFL and a guy
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Speaker 1: who's on that staff over there with Todd Bowles in Tampa.
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Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see what he does on that
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Speaker 1: side of the ball because that's gonna be just as important,
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Speaker 1: especially his fingerprints aren't all over it. And Ashley, that
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Speaker 1: you spoke with Josh Allen, you probably didn't get that
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Speaker 1: deep and what kind of defense you want to run,
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Speaker 1: But his excitement level, he's at cornerstone piece of that defense.
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Speaker 1: Miles Jack another question mark, Hey, where is he going
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Speaker 1: to be playing? What kind of defense? We'll have all
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Speaker 1: those questions for whoever this new coordinator is. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think it's interesting when you hear the names right now
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Speaker 1: with the Texans because we're seeing what's going on there.
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Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of decisions, so you see
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Speaker 1: those names. But that makes me question everything what happens
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Speaker 1: with the Texans and is that first priority when those
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Speaker 1: names are getting thrown out. So that's that's my biggest
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Speaker 1: question when we see those two names being reported out
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Speaker 1: of Houston. But I totally agree with Brian. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think Joe Collin did an awesome, awesome job this
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Speaker 1: year's defensive coordinator. But I would think would be most
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Speaker 1: likely someone who's already been a coordinator in coming to
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Speaker 1: this team. I wouldn't see it being a defensive line
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Speaker 1: coach being promoted. I agree with Brian that the defense
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Speaker 1: has to be so on its own that you want
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Speaker 1: a guy that's been there, done that before. And I
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Speaker 1: had to sit down with Doug Peterson. I think it's
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Speaker 1: coming out in two or three days, and I wanted
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Speaker 1: to tell you what I was most I wanted to
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Speaker 1: tell you it's not just shameless self promotion, but I
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Speaker 1: do want to just point out this one thing. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell what I was most excited about. Doug and I
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Speaker 1: were having this conversation and he got it before I did.
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Speaker 1: He said, this is a lot like Green Bay. And
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Speaker 1: I started nodding my head. I said, if you turn
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Speaker 1: this thing on, this could be the Green Bay of
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Speaker 1: the South. And he started nodding his head. He gets
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Speaker 1: what this is because he was in Green Bay. This
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Speaker 1: is a market that it's got one horse and it
16:31
Speaker 1: is going to cheer for that horse, or it's going
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Speaker 1: to be really unhappy with that horse, depending on how
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Speaker 1: it's running. And he sees how this can be just
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Speaker 1: like Green Bay. And I've said it for years. I
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Speaker 1: believe this could be the Green Bay of the South.
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Speaker 1: I was thrilled, excited that Doug not only saw that,
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Speaker 1: but really he wants that. He wants to be the guy,
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Speaker 1: the spark that takes this and makes it the Green
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Speaker 1: Bay in the South. That is what in the business
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Speaker 1: we call a tease. And we're back in a moment.
16:57
Speaker 1: Tony Vaselli is up for the Hall of Fame. We'll
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Speaker 1: get some final thoughts about that Super Bowl Picks is
17:04
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters Podcast. Welcome back to the Jaguars Reporters Podcast.
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, John Osian, Brian Sexton, Ashelan Sullivan. We've
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Speaker 1: recapped our thoughts about Doug Peterson's hiring, an announcement on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and the next steps moving ahead, player reaction as well.
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Speaker 1: A number of those guys caught up with Ashland over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. But now we move forward to the week ahead. Well,
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame announcement comes on Thursday night during
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Speaker 1: the NFL Honors Show. It's a nine pm Eastern time
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Speaker 1: start for the show. John, You're head in the l a, right,
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Speaker 1: so you're gonna kind of feel this out with Tony
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Speaker 1: and you know this is as good a years any right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I have lost count of how many
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Speaker 1: Super Bowls that I've walked around the press rooms beforehand
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Speaker 1: asking people about to Selly. So I feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: a immersed in this. I think about it. I talked
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Speaker 1: about it with Tony, I talked about with people who
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Speaker 1: are close to the process, and there's been sort of
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Speaker 1: a collective eye roll among the fans sometimes when you
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Speaker 1: tell them that Tony is eventually going to get in.
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Speaker 1: And I have felt that in my heart from the start.
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Speaker 1: And when I say the start, I mean four or
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Speaker 1: five years ago, when this sort of started getting going
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Speaker 1: and he started making making finalists lists. Um, I've never
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Speaker 1: said this before. I would be stunned if I'm flying
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Speaker 1: back from l A on Friday and he and he's
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Speaker 1: not in the Hall of Fame. I've always felt like
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Speaker 1: he had a good chance. This year. It all lines
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Speaker 1: up the three offensive lineman that needed to get in
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Speaker 1: to clear that roadblock or gone. It is a year
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Speaker 1: without any dead, solid locks walk ins. Every voter, you,
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Speaker 1: everybody I've talked to over the past four or five
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Speaker 1: years and said all four of those linemen will eventually
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Speaker 1: get in. They firmly believe that three of them are in.
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Speaker 1: I'd be stunned if you his in Tony's year. Bryan. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we we all have talked through his candidacy over the years,
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Speaker 1: but to have it this close and on the doorstep seemingly,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it would be a huge step for this
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Speaker 1: organization to have somebody with a bust in camp. That's
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Speaker 1: absolutely right, and I'm not sure if enough people see
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Speaker 1: what it means to the franchise at marge. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: Tony does National Games of the Week, as you guys know,
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Speaker 1: on CBS Radio, and he's out and about. People know
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Speaker 1: who he is. I think sometimes we we take it
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Speaker 1: for granted because we see him so much. But of
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Speaker 1: all the offensive lineman that John was talking about, none
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Speaker 1: were better than Tony Misselli. I mean he he was
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Speaker 1: the best left tackle in football. And Anthony Moodio's at
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Speaker 1: the Jazz for Awards, the Old Florida Sports Awards, right
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Speaker 1: after Tony retired, was there to be a presenter, and
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Speaker 1: he looked at me. He goes, you know, Basselli was
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Speaker 1: the best. And I said, but they say you're the best,
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Speaker 1: and he said, no, no, I think Passelli is the
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Speaker 1: best who ever played the game. Well, look, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I won't even pretend to know the voting criteria and
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Speaker 1: how they stack it and all of that stuff. But
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Speaker 1: I know what a Hall of Fame player looks like
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Speaker 1: because I watched Tony Boselli every play of his career.
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Speaker 1: He absolutely should get in. We should throw a hell
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Speaker 1: of the party for him. When he first brings that
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Speaker 1: that gold jacket back to Jacksonville and we should make
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Speaker 1: sure that everybody's invited. It's really it's a big, big
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Speaker 1: deal Ashland. It will be the largest jacket in town.
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Speaker 1: I think the thing is huge and the biggest bust
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Speaker 1: in camp. I know that. Yeah, I would say, so
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Speaker 1: it is it is time, It is absolutely time. I
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Speaker 1: remember two years ago, John and I were down in
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Speaker 1: Miami and that was my first time experiencing the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl and of course Tony's Hall of Fame um working
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Speaker 1: to get in and and just the the disappointment when
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Speaker 1: you hear it's not going to happen, and it's the
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Speaker 1: build up all week and you're waiting, waiting, waiting, hoping,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, it was a disappointment and you could just
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Speaker 1: feel it in the room. So definitely hope he gets
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Speaker 1: in because he's been through it enough. Man, Just put
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Speaker 1: him in and don't put through the disappointment any longer.
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Speaker 1: They probably better get him two or three jackets because
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Speaker 1: he's never gonna take it off if he gets it.
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Speaker 1: He said, the biggest busting camp. And some people would argue,
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Speaker 1: you see that big bust every day and let's seriously,
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Speaker 1: seriously hope it happens. Because as much as we tease
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Speaker 1: Tony is meant to be left. He absolutely deserves it.
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Speaker 1: It's time and here's hoping. Final thought today on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: reporter of Super Bowl fifty six coming up at SOFI Stadium,
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the Bengals and the Rams, Brian, who you like?
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Speaker 1: I'm going with the Bengals because of the quarterback. I
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Speaker 1: was at field level at the a f C Championship
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Speaker 1: game and I looked in that guy's eyes. I watched
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Speaker 1: the way that he dealt with his team and his coaches.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he is a cold blooded killer on
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Speaker 1: the football field. I think he's got Tom Brady Part
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Speaker 1: two written all over him. Maybe he doesn't win seven championships,
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Speaker 1: but when the big moments come, he rises to them
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Speaker 1: as he's proved to do. Watch this year. I think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Bengals in an upset. I want
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Speaker 1: the Bengals swim because I think they are so easy
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Speaker 1: to root for. They are the Cinderella story. And Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 1: my gosh, they were talking about on National TV this morning.
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Speaker 1: If Joe Burrow wins the Super Bowl, is he considered
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Speaker 1: a superstar? And a superstar is different like for my mom,
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Speaker 1: for example, she knows who Tom Brady is, she knows
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Speaker 1: who the superstars are. But if you don't watch football,
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Speaker 1: would you know Joe Burrow's name right now? And they
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Speaker 1: thought the answer was no. But if he wins the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they think the answer is yes. And he's
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Speaker 1: so easy to root for. I just think the Rams
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Speaker 1: have a more talented roster. I would think they win,
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Speaker 1: but I'm hoping the Bengals win because they're just so
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Speaker 1: easy to root for. John. Yeah, I'm kind of with Schlann.
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Speaker 1: I My instinct tells me the Rams are gonna win
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Speaker 1: because I think their defense is going to be too
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Speaker 1: much for the Bengals, and I think they're going to
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Speaker 1: force some mistakes. But as soon as I say that,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen a quarterback quite like
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Speaker 1: Burrow in terms of what Brian talked about, the cold bloodedness.
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Speaker 1: This kid is a star and he the unbelievable confidence.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of special at the quarterback position right now.
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Speaker 1: You know mahomes Herbert. Let's hope Trevor fits into that.
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Speaker 1: But there's something about Burrow that is a little different.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I'm with Slynn. I guess I'm long past
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Speaker 1: feeling like a fan. But if I was unaffiliated with
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Speaker 1: the NFL, I think I would follow the Bengals because
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Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow. He's a fun kid to watch and
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a rock star for two decades.
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Speaker 1: If you I have to jump in here real quick. Look,
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Speaker 1: you've been to Arrowhead Stadium, all of you have, and
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Speaker 1: you know how loud it is. It is a circuits atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: And when the Chiefs were up twenty one to three
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Speaker 1: in the second quarter, the place was coming apart at
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Speaker 1: the seams. It would have been so easy for Burrowing
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Speaker 1: the Bengals to just go, well, I mean, this is Arrowhead,
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Speaker 1: this is Patrick Mahomes and it's only our second year together.
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Speaker 1: But they didn't. They fought through it, and in the
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Speaker 1: second half he took a part of Kansas City defense
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Speaker 1: that didn't have any answer. So I just think he's
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Speaker 1: up to the challenge of the biggest moments. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: He's not intimidated at all by environment or opponent or
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Speaker 1: what's happening on the defensive line or any coin like
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Speaker 1: he's He's had that at least in his final year
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Speaker 1: or so of college that we saw and now going
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Speaker 1: into year two of the National Football League. I'm with you, John,
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Speaker 1: I think the Rams are the better team. But the
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Speaker 1: better team doesn't always win in a single game format,
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Speaker 1: right The better team over a seven game series would
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Speaker 1: be a different thing. Um, it's sixty minutes of football.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Rams though, because Stafford's finally
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Speaker 1: in it. He's finally gotten to that point. It's taking
24:36
Speaker 1: a long career to get there. He finally got that
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Speaker 1: first playoff when off his back earlier in this playoffs,
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Speaker 1: and he's got that defense to go with it. I
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Speaker 1: think this is the sixty minutes though. The Rams get
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Speaker 1: it done in their home stadium, so that's my pick.
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Speaker 1: Remember it was those it was those Rams that played
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Speaker 1: against young Tom Brady. Hurt Warner in those Rams against
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Speaker 1: a very young Tom Brady, his first stable. The parallels,
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Speaker 1: the parallels are right there. I can't wait. Thanks to
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Speaker 1: good point. Should be a good one. Thanks everybody, Brian
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Speaker 1: Sexton as from Sullivan, John Osier, I'm j P. Shadrick
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