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Countdown to Kickoff | Can the Jaguars Pull of a Throwback Week Win? · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time part weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. Week fifteen, Jets Jaguars. You know, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: if the Jaguars win two straight games, that's what they
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  Speaker 1: call a winning streak.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine that. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you'll take it how you can take
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  Speaker 3: it right, take it as it comes.
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  Speaker 2: Man, win pretty ugly, it does not matter.
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  Speaker 3: A win is a win, especially for all Jaguars fans
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  Speaker 3: around the world. Last week wasn't pretty, but they found
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  Speaker 3: a way to get it done. This week, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not the ideal matchup we all anticipated or in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the Jets were considered a playoff team. The
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars was considered a team that had potential to bounce
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  Speaker 3: back from a year ago. We all thought that was
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  Speaker 3: the case for both teams, and neither team has shown up.
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  Speaker 3: And but you still have a matchup. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: we go back to what is it four years ago,
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  Speaker 3: this was a matchup that they the team that at
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  Speaker 3: one and lost it would get the first pick. And
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  Speaker 3: here we are again with those same potential implications.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: We will see. Last week, the Jaguars defense played well
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  Speaker 1: to give up some yards. But then I had three
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  Speaker 1: fourth down stops. That's a good step in the right direction. See,
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  Speaker 1: young guys played well, that's promising, like Jarion Jones who
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  Speaker 1: had the sack. So that's a good thing on defense.
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  Speaker 1: But this week they're going up against Aaron Rodgers, only
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  Speaker 1: the all time greats, eighth of the all time passing lists.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Davonte Adams, they got Garrett Wilson, They've got
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  Speaker 1: they've got parts. They might not be playing well in
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  Speaker 1: New York on offense overall, but this is still a
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  Speaker 1: group that has the pieces to hurt you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the more I see a Rod, the more I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, pro, you know, come on, go go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and retire, you know, just just shut it down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I love him as a as a player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I haven't had a chance to really, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have an extensive conversation with him, but you know, on
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  Speaker 3: the field, I thought that he was always one of
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  Speaker 3: the best to ever played the position. Again these last
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  Speaker 3: two years, well you know, fairness, this year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't look great. It doesn't look like the a
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  Speaker 3: Rod that I'm used to see, but he does have
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  Speaker 3: some pieces around him, you know, and young Wilson right there.
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  Speaker 3: He has Davante Adams, some guys who can get it done.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it has a couple of running backs in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield as well. You got Hall and Allen who
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  Speaker 3: also can get it done. Big big backs, strong running backs,
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  Speaker 3: strong downhill type running back. So again, offensively, they have weapons,
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  Speaker 3: they can get it done. The protection has always been
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  Speaker 3: an issue. Can they protect long enough to you know,
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  Speaker 3: allow a rod to feel comfortable. I ain't a many
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  Speaker 3: forty year olds want to get hit JP. So trust me,
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  Speaker 3: you can hit him once and he'll start looking around,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's gonna be the key. Pressure Josh
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  Speaker 3: Heines Allen has been more probably one of the most
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  Speaker 3: consistent players on the team this year, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: take him travon the d li getting after room and
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  Speaker 3: playing good defense, starlid defense throughout the game. The Jets defense,
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  Speaker 3: on the other hand, JP still a pretty solid Grook group.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they saws guard and saw.
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  Speaker 3: They have some guys that can get it done. So offensively,
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  Speaker 3: we have to protect. They have to protect Matt. Matt
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  Speaker 3: has to protect the ball and not have those multiple
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  Speaker 3: turnovers as he did a week ago. So he has
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  Speaker 3: to find a way to protect the ball. And how
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  Speaker 3: do you do that? You run it tank out eighteen carres.
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  Speaker 3: I like to see, you know, Travis et and to
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  Speaker 3: get a few more opportunities to sort of help both
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  Speaker 3: their his confidence, but running the ball to help you
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  Speaker 3: win this game.
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  Speaker 1: Brett Taylor with us. You got to do that early though.
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  Speaker 1: They had nine runs to the first half last week
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  Speaker 1: and we can't do that. They threw the ball twice
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of Brian Thomas Junior in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: no catches. All that came in the second half. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get the Texans whoever they played last week was
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  Speaker 1: on the field forever. But I mean when you have
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  Speaker 1: your opportunities, you got to strike the you know, hit
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  Speaker 1: those players earlier in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been the thing for this team this entire season,
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  Speaker 3: is their first quarter, first half offensive woes. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't recall to date of record actually an NFL
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  Speaker 3: team that sort of had these sorts of dismal starts,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to to the ball games throughout the entire
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  Speaker 3: It's been this way the entire season. You know, like
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  Speaker 3: if you're not gonna get out there, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: start fast. You're not gonna create this momentum. You're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna win ball games. It's a lot of knots and
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  Speaker 3: that's what happens in the NFL. So if they can
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  Speaker 3: get out there, try to find some sort of big
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  Speaker 3: play early in the game. We've been saying this for
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  Speaker 3: the longest day. Peak just just throw a deep fifty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty ball to Brian thumbas we're seeing that he's capable.
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  Speaker 3: These other teams are doing it. You look around the league,
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  Speaker 3: like Cincinnati is doing it. The Cowboys find a way
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  Speaker 3: to do it. Like these teams haven't played great, but
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  Speaker 3: these teams are finding a way to get their playmakers
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  Speaker 3: the ball. And sometimes it's simply just manufacturing the force
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  Speaker 3: of issue. Play a fifty to fifty gamble play. Hell,
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  Speaker 3: if it doesn't work, put your defense out there and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully they hold up. But sometimes the methodical coach can
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  Speaker 3: be coaching, or approach can be overthinking. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I digress. I'm not in the building coaching. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what's going on behind the scenes. I just want
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  Speaker 3: these guys to go out there and be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Jaguars played the Titans last week at
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  Speaker 1: the three and ten, they kind of all run together
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Fred Taylor was proud of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back. You know, there's outside of the building, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fans are like, oh, you mess up the
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  Speaker 1: draft status for next year with a win last week. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's the fan A lot of fan perspective're not
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  Speaker 1: going to speak for everybody right inside the building. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a coach or a player, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're not caring about that because this goes on your
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  Speaker 1: permanent record. These the last four games moving ahead, and
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  Speaker 1: a player I'm guessing right Fred, from your perspective, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: care what the draft stock is next year because that
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  Speaker 1: player might take their job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody cares about the draft position.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's thinking about players coming out of college.
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  Speaker 2: I would like this guy or this guy. I've never
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  Speaker 2: thought that way.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard the locker room whispers, you know, anything
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  Speaker 3: to that extent.
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  Speaker 2: In my entire thirteen years.
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  Speaker 3: It's about the guys that are in the locker room,
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  Speaker 3: you know, who can help us now. It's always about now.
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  Speaker 3: We have never had conversations about you know, the future.
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  Speaker 3: You know, And again, I don't know how much the
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  Speaker 3: game has evolved guys in the locker room anticipating these
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  Speaker 3: picks or these positions, or wanting the guy from college
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  Speaker 3: to be on his team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I still believe that the best players in the world
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  Speaker 3: are the best players in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: On the NFL level.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there are some amazing college talent out there, but
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  Speaker 3: they have yet to prove what they can do on
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  Speaker 3: that level. It's still all potential based hoping that these
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  Speaker 3: guys can reach the next level and be you know,
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  Speaker 3: All Stars or you know, all Pro eventually Pro Bowls,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. So no one, no one cares. You want
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  Speaker 3: to win the ball game. I mean, you have incentives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's so many reasons to want to win right now.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't look forward, but I understand the fans.
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  Speaker 3: But what they don't look at all the time is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, draft position, you want to get your player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if there's not a going number one, who
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  Speaker 3: are you going to pick? Fans, who are you going
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  Speaker 3: to pick? If you have the number one pick. We've
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  Speaker 3: had the number one pick two times in the past
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  Speaker 3: four years. No, who are we gonna pick? So you know,
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  Speaker 3: even if it's three or four I tease Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 3: on the podcast we dropped Tuesday on the pivot, I said,
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  Speaker 3: do ball. I said, you need to learn how to
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  Speaker 3: say that now, and he was like, I would love
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  Speaker 3: to throw to Jacksonville. But again I said, jokingly, but who, Like,
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  Speaker 3: there's so much that goes into it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we do we need a dB? Do we
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  Speaker 2: need a receiver? Like? What position is he gonna play? Like?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is yes to both?
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  Speaker 3: But yes, well if that's if that's the case, JP,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they can take one player and get a two
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  Speaker 3: for one because he's shown that he can play both.
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  Speaker 3: But again, I like to digress these days.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, well we got all off season to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, and that's another part. So let's just focus on now.
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  Speaker 3: Let's focus on this Jets team and a team that
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  Speaker 3: hopefully well that they need to be and hopefully that'll
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  Speaker 3: be the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Red great stuff is always pleasure each and every week.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see you in the postgame coming ye.
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  Speaker 3: I will be in the post game, and I'll make
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  Speaker 3: sure not to eat any bad Dominican Republic food.
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  Speaker 1: Got you last week.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean all the food is bad. So for
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  Speaker 2: anyone that thinks I'm talking about all the food. No,
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  Speaker 2: it was just something that upset I had stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Bikers, we don't need all the details. Leave the gory
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  Speaker 1: details out, Fred, We're good.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Sit in the post game, all right. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be in the post game.