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Publix Tailgate Show: FOX Sports analyst Brock Huard · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Good to see a brock hut up. Yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be back with you. I didn't bring you good
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  Speaker 1: luck last time, so hopefully, hopefully this time and the frozen,
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  Speaker 1: windy tundra, we can be a little better luck for
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  Speaker 1: the Jags. You know, the weather forecast is quite interesting
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  Speaker 1: in the right around thirty nine forty little wetness when gosh,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that man, that is it's it's brutal. I
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  Speaker 1: was out at packer practice on Friday and it was
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  Speaker 1: a low forties, upper thirties dry, but man, when that
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  Speaker 1: wind comes, it just carves you up. And yes, the
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  Speaker 1: weather is going to be just brutal. I think the
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  Speaker 1: worst weather environment I ever played in was in college
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  Speaker 1: with these kind of conditions. We played San Jose State.
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  Speaker 1: It was upper thirties, it was raining, it was so windy,
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  Speaker 1: and Husky Stadium back in the day there was an
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  Speaker 1: open end and the rain was coming off the water.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even look up. My face was just getting
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  Speaker 1: pelted with the wind and the rain. So I had
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  Speaker 1: my head down making the calls. And thankfully, I think
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  Speaker 1: Corey Dillon ran for like you can look it up.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had two hundred and ninety yards of
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  Speaker 1: offense in the first quarter. I couldn't feel my hands
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  Speaker 1: if we had to throw, if we were playing anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it would have been just a disaster. So
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  Speaker 1: the good news is obviously Jake grew up about an
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  Speaker 1: hour north of Seattle, UM and and so he's dealt
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  Speaker 1: with the Pineapple Express of wind and rain. But this
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  Speaker 1: just cutting cold here in Green May. It's absolutely going
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  Speaker 1: to be a factor. Rock Heward with us from Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember a bigger difference in NFL experience in
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in a game. I mean, Jake Lewton's played sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine snaps in one game, never played in the preseason ever,
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers is in the league until five, and
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  Speaker 1: the two time MVP and a Super Bowl champion and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I mean, it's a huge difference easy an experience.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with Jake and what did you see out
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  Speaker 1: of his performance last week? What did you hear from
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  Speaker 1: him this week? And you know, it feels like but
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  Speaker 1: things went pretty well considering everything last week. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, And I watched Jacob Bunch in college. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I did not have any of his games last year
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  Speaker 1: in Oregon State with Fox, But I certainly watched him
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  Speaker 1: and just a six year journey, right that you guys
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  Speaker 1: know better than anybody on a national broadcast going to
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  Speaker 1: tune in. It was never easy for him to three
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  Speaker 1: touchdown the interception his final year Corvallis and Corvallis was real.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that that doesn't just happen. That's a
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  Speaker 1: nine to one touchdown the interception. Now, he was fortunate
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have about four interceptions in the game last
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  Speaker 1: week because there were certainly some some passes that got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit away from him, and and you know
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  Speaker 1: that he's got to be a little bit more accurate.
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  Speaker 1: On the two point conversion. I just felt so bad
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  Speaker 1: for him. He makes an incredible play, right, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he ever did that in college in the Pact twelve,
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  Speaker 1: let alone the NFL. And you could see him trying,
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  Speaker 1: and I was almost like, Okay, settle down, settle down.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome, but you know, you got to make
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  Speaker 1: the next play or that one really doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, and then obviously he dirted the two point
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  Speaker 1: conversion on a play I think if he throws it
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  Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers throws it, that game is tied going
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  Speaker 1: over time, so to be expected. As you said with
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine snaps, he's not Aaron Rodgers. I would say
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  Speaker 1: what stood out to me most encouraging was I thought
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  Speaker 1: his movement was better than expected. You know, I did
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  Speaker 1: not think that, you know, at either in Oregon State
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  Speaker 1: or in Idaho or through his career, he's been so
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  Speaker 1: beat up that I didn't think that he could even
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  Speaker 1: run for that seventeen yard touchdown or thirteen or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and with a stiff arm. You know, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: any any of us ever saw that. Um So, I
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  Speaker 1: thought his movement was good. His movement in the pocket
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  Speaker 1: was good. His arm strength is his his plus arm strength.
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  Speaker 1: But the big key is going to be accuracy. The
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  Speaker 1: weather conditions will be terrible, and in talking to Mike
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  Speaker 1: Petton on Friday, they're going to throw everything and I
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  Speaker 1: mean everything at number six, from personnel from Blitz to
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  Speaker 1: to make him uncomfortable, to try to get his eyes everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just watching his feet. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I think the first fifteen minutes is going
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  Speaker 1: to tell us a lot about his comfort level. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have to face a lot of that pressure
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  Speaker 1: last week. Really at all, And yeah, certainly a different look.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Betton, known for that throughout his career, brought you
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  Speaker 1: with us from Fox Sports. Aaron Rodgers on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: has a full arsenal weapons, He's at his prime, he's
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  Speaker 1: locked in. It feels like this team is one of
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  Speaker 1: the elite that I've seen teams and has a chance
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  Speaker 1: to make a deep run this year. And because Aaron
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  Speaker 1: is still playing at and Aaron Rodgers type level. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I would say his old line, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get Botri back and that makes a huge difference in
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  Speaker 1: that offensive line when he is in there at left tackle. Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a better old line in
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  Speaker 1: the league, to be honest with you. Every thing that
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  Speaker 1: they do, all the communication, all the check with me,
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  Speaker 1: all the double cadence. Those guys the left the left
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  Speaker 1: guard is one of the young phenomen offensive lineman in
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  Speaker 1: this league, Elton Jenkins. It plays everywhere. So that's where
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  Speaker 1: it starts to me. To me, that's where they're different
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  Speaker 1: in year two. It's not just oh, Aaron's comfort, Oh
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  Speaker 1: you know Ian and and the fleur on the same page. No,
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  Speaker 1: when you've got an elite offensive line. It makes just
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  Speaker 1: look at the college game that you call, look at
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones and and look at Justin Fields and and
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  Speaker 1: and even Kyle Trash down there in Florida where you're familiar,
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  Speaker 1: when you get a time and you're comfortable, and then
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  Speaker 1: when you're erring with you know, just a skill set
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  Speaker 1: that's just so unique with his arm, his movement still
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  Speaker 1: Davante Adams. My guy Greg Jennings who's in the booth
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  Speaker 1: with me from from game one this year. We had
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  Speaker 1: them game one and Greg said, DeVante to me, is
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  Speaker 1: the best receiver in the game. I know there's Julio Jones,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's lots of stars, but DeVante is the best.
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  Speaker 1: And and Aaron certainly feels that way as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they got their full stable running back back. They can
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  Speaker 1: run it, they can throw it, and yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a handful for Jacksonville to handle. Defensively. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Davante Adams. Do you just throw C. J. Henderson
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  Speaker 1: on him and say good luck? Do you give him
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  Speaker 1: double coverage? Slide a guy, how do you cover about it? Well? Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, is a three deep scheme that tries
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  Speaker 1: to stay on top and and c J couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: that a couple of times a week ago with the
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  Speaker 1: with both the touchdown and the p I. So I
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  Speaker 1: am sure that that was beat into his head over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. Is to just
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  Speaker 1: simply stay on top as much as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's probably the the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first big key is to make sure that both he
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  Speaker 1: and Sydney and whoever, and they move DeVante around everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: so you're not gonna just be able to to double
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  Speaker 1: or roll someone over the top. And that really isn't
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  Speaker 1: the essence of Todd Washer's defense anyway. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: play man, he wants to play three deep. I think
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  Speaker 1: it will be much more in the in the inclement weather.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to Aaron and trying to pressure
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  Speaker 1: him as they've done the last four weeks, and just
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  Speaker 1: make sure he can't sit back there in pat pat pat,
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  Speaker 1: and let Devonte do his thing. Pro With this final
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  Speaker 1: thought here, Packers are about two touchdown favorites in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's captain the Jaguars out that they don't have a
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  Speaker 1: chance in this game. Is there a blueprint to win
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  Speaker 1: this game for the Jags. What would it be? What
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  Speaker 1: would be an ideal game plan scenario? Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: look back at the spread when the five and one
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  Speaker 1: Packers took on the one in five Vikings, but I
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  Speaker 1: I bet you that spread was close to double digits.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know Kirk Cousins and Dalvin Cook, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't too nearly fourteen points? Is this one is?
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  Speaker 1: But that is absolutely the blueprint. And you know what, Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville has some of the pieces their offensive line and
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  Speaker 1: their two tackles. We talked about this when I was
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  Speaker 1: on with you a month ago. I loved you know
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  Speaker 1: what I saw through stretches with both cam and which
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  Speaker 1: which you want? So they've got to own the edge
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  Speaker 1: against the Smith brothers. Uh, Minnesota went a ton of
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  Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, Dalvin back there with three tight ends. You
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  Speaker 1: saw Jay Gruden do some of that last week. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to run the football a little bit, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of tight ends that are physical
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  Speaker 1: guys that that that that are capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So I would expect to see a bunch of that
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  Speaker 1: if I'm the coordinator in this game. Depending on how
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  Speaker 1: nasty these conditions do end up being. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that that old line and those tight ends. No,
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  Speaker 1: And you can watch that Minnesota game. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: what they did. They hit green Bay right in the mouth.
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  Speaker 1: If you can handle the big man inside and make
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  Speaker 1: sure Kenny Clark doesn't totally destroy it from the inside,
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  Speaker 1: you've got good enough tackles and tight ends to get
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  Speaker 1: on some edges and just try to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: And so Minnesota did effectively. They match score for score
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  Speaker 1: with them early, which will be key not to get
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  Speaker 1: down too big. And then you know, on a on
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  Speaker 1: a wet, windy, cold, nasty day, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: more physical that That's the challenge for Jacksonville and that
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  Speaker 1: has to add absolutely, I think be the messaging with
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  Speaker 1: both Marone with j with that oldline and a little
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  Speaker 1: running back that wants to show he belongs to great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the time again and hopefully we'll see
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  Speaker 1: you down the line again here soon. Brock. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's I think there's a chance in the second half
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  Speaker 1: we'll bump into each other again, and if so, I
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  Speaker 1: always look forward to doing this. Thanks for having me