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Jags HQ | Jaguars Injury Updates, Players to Watch vs. Chargers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 3: Jeff Logman, the Chargers in the Jaguars Week eleven. It's
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Speaker 3: delivered by CSX and EVP. Tony Boselli joins us in studio.
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Speaker 3: GM's right behind me here, Oh here he comes, Hey, goodt.
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Speaker 4: I got our questions for him.
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Speaker 3: James Gladstone is here, General landon.
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Speaker 4: Questions being JP. We're just having a conversation James about
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Speaker 4: practice squad and can you protect players because you guys
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Speaker 4: had transaction where Colin Sunders was released Branson Combs was
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Speaker 4: elevated off of the practice squad to the active roster,
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Speaker 4: and was were you out of elevations opportunities with Branson
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Speaker 4: Combs at this point?
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Speaker 2: You know what we So each player is allotted three
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Speaker 2: different standard elevations from the practice squad before you're forced
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Speaker 2: to move them up to the fifty three man Act
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Speaker 2: one roster if you want them active for a fourth time.
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Speaker 2: So Branson had been elevated two times prior to this
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Speaker 2: week one left. Yeah, but what you end up doing
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Speaker 2: in those instances is guys go have an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: not only perform for their team, but also showcase their
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Speaker 2: skill set for the other thirty one teams to consider
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Speaker 2: coaching them off of your practice squad, which leads to
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Speaker 2: my next by signing them to their active roster.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so can you protect guys on your practice squad
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Speaker 4: from other teams poaching them and signing them to their
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Speaker 4: active roster.
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Speaker 2: There's no protection mechanism. What you would be forced to
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Speaker 2: do in that situation is make a decision on whether
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Speaker 2: or not you say, hey, you're more than welcome to
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Speaker 2: remain on.
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Speaker 4: Our practice squad.
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Speaker 2: You can pursue the opportunity that you may have elsewhere,
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Speaker 2: or hey, you know what, we would actually like to
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Speaker 2: sign you to our fifty three rand roster knowing that
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Speaker 2: you have that opportunity.
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Speaker 4: Because the difference I mean, I brought this up to JP.
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Speaker 4: You can't protect guys because that's money, right, you know,
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Speaker 4: I mean the difference of a guy on a practice
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Speaker 4: squad he makes what ballpark. Give people an idea it made.
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Speaker 4: It's different twenty thousand a week versus the NFL minimum,
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Speaker 4: which is what.
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Speaker 3: Quite a bit higher, a lot higher.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, triple that triple that is sixty grand a week.
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Speaker 4: It's a lot of money, you know. So that's what
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Speaker 4: I'm saying that you can't You can't keep a guy
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Speaker 4: from making money, you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean some players will opt, based off of situation dynamics,
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Speaker 2: personal life, to remain in the situation that they're in
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Speaker 2: because it's what they know as opposed to entering the unknown.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: So there are some times where guys will say, I
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Speaker 2: appreciate you guys considering me for a proach, but I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and remain here because I see a
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Speaker 2: vision for the future, or I like the system better
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Speaker 2: than the system might be entering all those different types.
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Speaker 4: Of things, and then I El's got to have had
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Speaker 4: an impact on that, because I mean, I mean nowadays,
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Speaker 4: some guys that might be on a practice squad got
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Speaker 4: a little a little bit of cash, you know, where
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Speaker 4: some guys that came to the league, you and Tony's
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Speaker 4: yer ain't got no cash, no cash coming in from
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Speaker 4: college other than maybe some debt. And you know, of
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Speaker 4: course at Clemson, guys that went to Clemson got paid.
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Speaker 5: Back in the day pre n il earlier.
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Speaker 4: It was a secret out.
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Speaker 3: Of McDonald's bags.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I will say this, Branson combs more than deserving
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Speaker 2: of a place of the fifty three man roster. Obviously
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Speaker 2: elevated twice so far this season from our practice squad,
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Speaker 2: had a really stable sound, performing throughout training camp in
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Speaker 2: the preseason, really impactful two games on special teams. For
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Speaker 2: see a future for him, and didn't want to didn't
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Speaker 2: want to break from that, you know, wanted to maintain
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Speaker 2: the course and see that through. He is a meaningful
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Speaker 2: piece to the puzzle and the larger scheme of things,
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Speaker 2: and so I wanted to make sure that we kept
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Speaker 2: a good thing going.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: Jaguars Chargers this week how was the vibe in the
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Speaker 3: building coming out of that Texans game? Obviously had to
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Speaker 3: be a tough Monday around here, certainly, Jimmy, what do
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Speaker 3: you think that.
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Speaker 5: That's a great question, that's the dumbest question you've ever asked.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing that wow, I'll label that is
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Speaker 2: you can I'm joking. Look, we're we're all humans, right,
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Speaker 2: So you're gonna you're gonna feel some type of way
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Speaker 2: about having started the game the way that we wanted
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Speaker 2: to right. We wanted to make sure that we were
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Speaker 2: felt right from the jump and we're able to see
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Speaker 2: that come to fruition. As a part of that, we
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Speaker 2: let it slip in the fourth quarter and that's painful
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Speaker 2: to sit with. But we can't let it beat us twice.
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Speaker 2: And you know, that's been a theme as a part
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Speaker 2: of this week's work, as a part of the return
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Speaker 2: to office next day, is this is not a game
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Speaker 2: that will beat us twice. We got to move forward.
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Speaker 2: We got to continue to find ways for growth and
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Speaker 2: different modes of earning an edge because we lost our
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Speaker 2: edge in the fourth quarter. And you know, got to
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Speaker 2: give the Houston Texans a lot of credit for their
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Speaker 2: their fight their will because that's not easy to do
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Speaker 2: what they did, and you know, it's it's certainly something
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Speaker 2: that's challenging to palate. But we got to move forward
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Speaker 2: and that's what we're looking to do.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think confident that will happen. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's stings, so all joking aside. I mean, it's miserable
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Speaker 5: to lose any game, but giving up a lead like
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Speaker 5: we had, but it's not you know, you go back
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Speaker 5: to early season in Cincinnati is a game we controlled
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Speaker 5: the entire game and we're only down for what twenty seconds?
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Speaker 5: Twenty nine seconds in the entire game. Felt like we
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Speaker 5: gave one away there as well. The response coming back
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Speaker 5: out of Cincinnati was a really good one. Played the
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Speaker 5: Texas next week, came out, we're physical and got to win,
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Speaker 5: and so have a lot of confidence in this group
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Speaker 5: to respond. I think William's done a great job of
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Speaker 5: the communication postgame on Monday, expectations, how where we need
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Speaker 5: to improve, what we can learn from it, and then
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Speaker 5: washing it starting Wednesday and looking towards the Chargers, because
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Speaker 5: that's all you can really do. And Liam said in
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Speaker 5: the team meeting with James, just said, here is a
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Speaker 5: great way to think about. You don't want to get
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Speaker 5: beat twice by the same team. And if you hang
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Speaker 5: on to it, Jeff, you remember this as a player,
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Speaker 5: you start thinking about what happened the week before on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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Speaker 5: You're not getting ready, you're not focused on the game plan,
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Speaker 5: your mind's distracted, and you're just not giving your best
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Speaker 5: performance to prepare for the game coming up.
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Speaker 4: Because you can use it as motivation.
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Speaker 5: The motivation is fine. The anger, the you know, disappointment,
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Speaker 5: the wanting to get that bad taste out of your mouth,
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Speaker 5: those are all positives that you can use. But we
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Speaker 5: can't do is dwell on the missed opportunity, or dwell
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Speaker 5: on the mistake, or dwell on man, if we had
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Speaker 5: just done X, Y or Z, we would have won
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Speaker 5: the game. Those are fruitless conversations because they don't it's
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Speaker 5: not going to change what happened this past weekend. We
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Speaker 5: lost the football game they deserve to win. They played
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Speaker 5: four quarters, we played three. That's what happens, and we
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Speaker 5: got to you know, rebound from it. And I got
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Speaker 5: a lot of confidence in the organization, players, coaches, everyone
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Speaker 5: involved to be ready to go and play a really
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Speaker 5: good Los Angeles Chargers team.
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Speaker 3: That's fine.
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Speaker 4: Times I did it. I did it with the Raiders.
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Speaker 4: I was like Oakland Raiders. You know, part of you know,
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Speaker 4: part of the fabric, but part of this past game
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Speaker 4: is not necessarily what you didn't do, but it's also
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Speaker 4: part of what they did. Absolutely, I gotta say Danil
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Speaker 4: Hunter is an exceptional football player. Will Anderson junior exceptional
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Speaker 4: football player. If those two guys aren't on the field
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Speaker 4: for the Houston Texans, that doesn't happen. They're great players
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Speaker 4: playing themself.
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Speaker 5: And if you look at the whole defense and what
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Speaker 5: they did and how they play, they came out from
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Speaker 5: the start and they played their style football. There's a
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Speaker 5: reason why they're the number one defense in the league.
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Speaker 5: Giving up I think fourteen maybe fifteen. Now we scored
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Speaker 5: twenty nine. You think, man, that's a lot of points.
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Speaker 5: And then offensively, give them a lot of credit. They
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Speaker 5: were punching the mouth early. They struggled. It would have
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Speaker 5: been very easy with Davis Mills backup getting first start
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Speaker 5: in a long time out a couple offensive linemen to say, hey,
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Speaker 5: just not our day and give them, give their staff
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Speaker 5: and give their players on offense a ton of credit
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Speaker 5: because that's the group that came back. Defense you know,
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Speaker 5: got stops late when they needed to, but really that
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Speaker 5: offense did a great job. And it's sometimes all you
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Speaker 5: can do is tip your hat and say, Okay, you know,
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Speaker 5: they beat us, and we could sit here and say, man,
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Speaker 5: if we've done this or that or this, well that's
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Speaker 5: didn't happen. So now you've got to take that energy,
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Speaker 5: focus on the Chargers and get ready to have a
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Speaker 5: good week of practice, which we've had two good, very
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Speaker 5: good days. Guys are walked in ready to go and
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Speaker 5: uh and then get ready to play ball on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: All right, it's not fun to dwell on the negatives
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Speaker 4: so much the positive in that game. Parker Washington's just fantastic.
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Speaker 4: Can can you extend us contract right now? James?
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Speaker 2: No, you can't. So there's a you know, a three
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Speaker 2: year runway before you can have any of those conversations.
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Speaker 2: So the earliest that we can do that extend the
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Speaker 2: new new league year kicks off.
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Speaker 5: Okay in March, you know the second Yeah, okay, but
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Speaker 5: he's to your point.
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Speaker 2: He is showing us so many positive signs and contributing
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Speaker 2: in so many different ways and at so many critical moments, right,
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Speaker 2: He's doing everything that we need from and I think
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of the message that you know, myself,
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Speaker 2: Liam Tony wanted to share with anybody that was in
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Speaker 2: this organization, this football team, to be nothing more than
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Speaker 2: who they are. And I think that's exactly what Parker's
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Speaker 2: leaning into. He's not stretching to be more than that,
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Speaker 2: and it's really paying dividends, right, And when you're not
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Speaker 2: trying to play some version of hero ball, but just
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Speaker 2: ball the way, you know, I think it can be
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Speaker 2: very productive. And I think he's a very clear sign
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Speaker 2: to that because coming into the season, it's not like
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Speaker 2: he was a topic of conversation across the wide landscape, right,
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Speaker 2: But now there's been attrition over the course of the season,
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Speaker 2: and he's been given an opportunity to shine. He's stepped
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Speaker 2: in and you know, even when he's not returning punts
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Speaker 2: for touchdowns, he's gaining good ground on a number of them.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: We get two.
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Speaker 2: Punts punp return opportunities in that Houston game, both of
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Speaker 2: which were very effective. Right.
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Speaker 4: So the one return, though, you got five guys that
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Speaker 4: he made miss Oh yeah, he.
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Speaker 5: Broke You watched the poor long snapper coming down there,
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Speaker 5: and I thought he was still going to be an
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Speaker 5: ir the way. But I'll say this about just add
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Speaker 5: one thing to Park because I think what our fancy
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Speaker 5: and the public scene and everyone covering him is see
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Speaker 5: the production that he's had this year in special teams,
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Speaker 5: opportunities getting as a wide receiver, and how he's taking
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Speaker 5: advantage of it. I'll go back to how he moves
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Speaker 5: in this building all the way back to the off season.
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Speaker 5: You get here to come work out us old guys,
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Speaker 5: get here early to work out, call five thirty whatever
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Speaker 5: time in the morning off season, Park or Washington in
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Speaker 5: the weight room, work in his body, working on flexibility,
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Speaker 5: working on you know, hand eye, all the different things.
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Speaker 5: And that continued throughout the entire offseason. Come into camp.
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Speaker 5: How he approached camp, taking the extensive playbook that you know,
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Speaker 5: we put a lot on them. Mentally this offseason took
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Speaker 5: a huge jump on the mental side from end of
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Speaker 5: OTAs shows up the training camp ready to go, not
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Speaker 5: just physically but mentally. And so you've seen a guy
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Speaker 5: that the output the outcome has been very positive. But
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Speaker 5: I go back to the process that we take ask
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Speaker 5: these players to do, but then him doing the extra
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Speaker 5: work to be a real pro. And I think he's
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Speaker 5: seen the dividends and it's showing up, and he's a
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Speaker 5: big part.
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Speaker 2: Of what we do what doesn't show up on the
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Speaker 2: stat sheet. All right, Let's rewind to the Las Vegas
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Speaker 2: Raiders game.
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Speaker 3: Right end a half.
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Speaker 2: He ends up up catching a very challenging contested op
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Speaker 2: that puts us into field goal range that allows then
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Speaker 2: us to try what would become a historic kick. Fast
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Speaker 2: forward now to our final drive of the game. Same
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Speaker 2: thing occurs. It gets called back for a penalty on
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Speaker 2: the offensive line, but nonetheless put us in an opportunity to,
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Speaker 2: let's call it, win the game. And so those critical moments,
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Speaker 2: while again one of those is in on the stat sheet,
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Speaker 2: are really what can be attention grabbing right. Who is
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Speaker 2: their best when their best is required? He certainly has
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Speaker 2: shown that a couple different times now over the course
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Speaker 2: of the season, and something that, as Tony alluded to,
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Speaker 2: is by no mistake, he's putting in the necessary time
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Speaker 2: and effort in order to ensure that when he has
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Speaker 2: the opt to do so, he sees it come to life.
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Speaker 3: Let's return and we'll look forward to the seven in
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Speaker 3: three LA Chargers coming to the bank. Jags haven't been
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Speaker 3: at home in forever. It feels like what thirty something
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Speaker 3: days been awhile, we'll need that fan support this week.
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Speaker 3: We'll get into the Chargers when we come back. It's
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Speaker 3: Jags HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh from Florida. Continues
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back. It is Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh from Florida,
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Speaker 3: JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman from Undai Studios at the Miller
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Speaker 3: Electric Center, Tony Vaselli, James Gladstone in with us as well.
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Speaker 3: Ahead of this Chargers Jaguars matchup delivered by CSX, first
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Speaker 3: meeting between the teams since the twenty twenty two AFC
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Speaker 3: Wild Card playoff game. The wild comeback down twenty seven
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Speaker 3: to nothing, Trevor Lawrence with the three second half touchdown passes,
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Speaker 3: one right before halftime. It really kind of jumpstarted things
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Speaker 3: and the Jaguars won on a walk off field goal
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Speaker 3: in that game.
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Speaker 4: It's been a little while, a.
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Speaker 3: Few players from both teams still around. That's in the past, though.
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Speaker 3: We're looking aheading out of this Chargers team's now seven
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Speaker 3: and three. Justin Herbert is what like the most hit
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Speaker 3: quarterback in football, But it doesn't seem to face if
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Speaker 3: number one in completions and attempts, number two in yardage,
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Speaker 3: number three touchdowns, you can run the football. He's a
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Speaker 3: total package.
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Speaker 2: James, Oh, yeah, this is the sibling rivalry game, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Patrick versus Justin.
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Speaker 3: Patrick's on the practice squad.
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Speaker 4: Here's a tight end. And that is Patrick, the younger
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Speaker 4: brother of Justin Herbert.
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Speaker 2: That's right to my knowledge, right, yes, yes.
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Speaker 5: He's younger.
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Speaker 4: So he's on your practice squad and he's a tight end.
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Speaker 2: What's his highway that I don't know off in my head,
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Speaker 2: I'd be lying if I told you exactly.
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Speaker 5: We don't have it here.
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Speaker 4: Go to Jaguars dot com. Here in the.
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Speaker 5: Sixty three.
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Speaker 3: Six, five fifty five.
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Speaker 2: I like you got to wait, right, they look identical,
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Speaker 2: almost like their brothers or something. Yeah, it's it's.
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Speaker 4: Interesting, I mean, truly twin shocking.
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Speaker 3: But Herbert's got it all man, then the quarterbacks certainly Justin.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is doing such a phenomenal job leading that
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Speaker 2: football team. It's a it's a really stable effective operation offensively, defensively,
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Speaker 2: special teams unit is super solid. I think when you
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Speaker 2: look around the league, this is the time of year
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Speaker 2: that everyone has experienced some version of attrition at any
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Speaker 2: one given position, in particular across the team as a whole. Right,
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Speaker 2: their offensive line has gone through it. They lost both
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Speaker 2: tackles and as a part of that.
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Speaker 4: And tackles, yes, very really good.
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Speaker 2: Right, So you're talking about one of the better players
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Speaker 2: in the league, and any quarterbacks is going to feel
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Speaker 2: the pains of that. Justin's overcoming it and he's operating
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Speaker 2: that offense at a at a high tick and certainly
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Speaker 2: put them in positions to win football games consistently. And
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Speaker 2: they're coming through when it's not always clean lost running
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Speaker 2: backs and lost running backs, and they're an outfit that
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Speaker 2: wants to run the football. So you know, you got
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Speaker 2: to give everybody that goes through some high volume of
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Speaker 2: injury toll a lot of credit. But just about every
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Speaker 2: team's dealing with it to some degree at different position groups,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. And you know, I think for them, it's
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Speaker 2: it's certainly still the same philosophy, regardless of people being
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Speaker 2: out It is their DNA. They want to run the football.
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Speaker 2: They do have some guys who are very effective on
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Speaker 2: critical downs, third downs at receiver and a rookie tight
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Speaker 2: end who's really come into life. So their passing attack
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Speaker 2: is no joke. It's you know, there's some guys you
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Speaker 2: really got to account for.
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Speaker 4: That third down guy you're talking about, Keenan Allen's a
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Speaker 4: big part of that. He's pretty pretty darn good to
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Speaker 4: still good though, still can play some football.
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Speaker 2: There's no doubt getting back on track. You got Lad
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Speaker 2: mcconkeye who can dice just about anybody.
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Speaker 4: Up a football player.
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Speaker 2: Now, there's no doubt about. It's a great label to
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Speaker 2: attached to them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the question that I have is that you know
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Speaker 4: they got issues that tackle. The Texans had some issues
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Speaker 4: that tackle. How do your does your guys, you know,
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Speaker 4: your two edge guys get better to take advantage of
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Speaker 4: a situation like this? Can can they raise their level
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Speaker 4: of play in a in a in an area that
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Speaker 4: is a little concern for your defense? Now you're near
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Speaker 4: the bottom and third down production, you're at the bottom
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Speaker 4: in sacks. How do you get that? I don't want
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Speaker 4: to say flip it, because flippant would be you know,
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Speaker 4: going to the top, which is not going to happen,
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Speaker 4: but how to improve that.
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Speaker 5: We can't reach it. We can't catch the Broncos at forty.
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Speaker 5: I don't think six x in one game.
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Speaker 4: I think that's gonna lie.
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Speaker 5: I mean, listen, at the end of the day, we
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Speaker 5: just got to keep on getting better. And I think
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Speaker 5: there's nobody who wants to get to the quarterback more
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Speaker 5: than Josh and Traymont, and so they're going to have opportunities.
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Speaker 5: But then we need to put our guys in positions
18:51
Speaker 5: maybe you know, there's obviously you can do games different stunts.
18:54
Speaker 5: You know, obviously if you've watched this blitz at times,
18:58
Speaker 5: and so I think it's not just those two guys.
19:01
Speaker 5: And I think so often when you have expectations to
19:04
Speaker 5: get a bunch of sacks and it's not going, what's
19:07
Speaker 5: the natural thing to do? Start pressing. And when you
19:10
Speaker 5: start pressing, what happens? You actually start playing worse, getting
19:13
Speaker 5: out of what you're supposed to be doing and really
19:16
Speaker 5: hurting the team. So, Jeff, you know this is a
19:18
Speaker 5: defensive lineman. Sacks are a combination of both tight coverage,
19:23
Speaker 5: getting the quarterback to hold the ball, and winning upfront,
19:27
Speaker 5: and so everything needs to improve at all levels. No
19:31
Speaker 5: different than if we talk about the other side of
19:34
Speaker 5: the ball, about Trevor getting sacked last week. We put
19:37
Speaker 5: a go it's a great front. Is that all the
19:39
Speaker 5: offensive line's fault. No, it's never just the offensive line.
19:42
Speaker 5: It's the quarterback with his drops, it's the backs picking protection,
19:45
Speaker 5: it's receivers winning and running the right depths of routes.
19:49
Speaker 5: And so it's no different when you talk about sacks. Yeah, obviously, Trayvon, Josh, Eric,
19:54
Speaker 5: all those guys want to go. It's not like they're
19:56
Speaker 5: not trying well. We don't want to get into a
19:58
Speaker 5: situation where they start trying to press do more than
20:00
Speaker 5: they're being asked to do. And so it's the whole
20:03
Speaker 5: unit back half that's tighten up the coverage a little bit,
20:07
Speaker 5: take some chances as Campion has done all year, blits
20:11
Speaker 5: a Tommy downs, maybe put some more games in there. Whatever.
20:15
Speaker 5: That looks like they have a game plan, but really
20:18
Speaker 5: it's just everyone just go do your job and we'll
20:20
Speaker 5: be fine. Josh and Trayvon did not forget how to
20:24
Speaker 5: rush the passer. Eric Armistead had a good week last week,
20:27
Speaker 5: put some pressure on Davis Mills. So you have some
20:30
Speaker 5: confidence there, and so I think guys just got to
20:33
Speaker 5: keep on going and take a deep breath, because the
20:36
Speaker 5: one thing I know is the player. When you start pressing,
20:39
Speaker 5: bad things tend to happen. You don't get more productive
20:42
Speaker 5: when you relax. Go trust the call, go trust your technique,
20:46
Speaker 5: go trust your ability, and just go play. Whether it's
20:49
Speaker 5: the back half or the front. Think, good things tend
20:53
Speaker 5: to happen. I think those guys are in the right
20:55
Speaker 5: mindset and looking forward to seeing them getting after the quarterback.
20:57
Speaker 4: Part of the old cous You talk about Russian cover
21:01
Speaker 4: and obviously goes hand in hand the cover guys. Okay,
21:04
Speaker 4: Travis Hunter's gone for the year LCL surgery. I think
21:07
Speaker 4: everybody is aware of that. Jordan Lewis has a neck.
21:11
Speaker 4: Eric Murray, who is on IR, has a neck. How
21:14
Speaker 4: are those two guys doing and what's the future outlook
21:19
Speaker 4: for those two guys?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, with Eric being on IR, there's a
21:22
Speaker 2: certain threshold. He's still got a couple more weeks after
21:25
Speaker 2: this before he can actually so.
21:29
Speaker 4: Too. So he's got two more He's got a miss.
21:31
Speaker 2: That's right, in order to get to a place where
21:33
Speaker 2: we can open up his practice window. Jordan on the
21:35
Speaker 2: other hand, is at in a position where considered for
21:38
Speaker 2: this week, likely more the week after. And nonetheless, right,
21:43
Speaker 2: you think about what they meant to the back half,
21:47
Speaker 2: right from a veteran presence, from a communications standpoint, mastery
21:51
Speaker 2: of the system, all those types of things, those are
21:54
Speaker 2: hard to replicate, hard to replace, and still continuing to
21:58
Speaker 2: grow within the space without them on the grass and
22:02
Speaker 2: in particular then Travis as well, who filled a void
22:05
Speaker 2: on the outside. And so that's some waters that are
22:10
Speaker 2: being navigated and require you know, next man up mentality
22:14
Speaker 2: and continuing to try to marry both coverage and rush
22:17
Speaker 2: together and find the right balance so that we can
22:19
Speaker 2: strike not only impact on the quarterback behind the line
22:22
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, but also the turnovers that we know can
22:26
Speaker 2: generate a lot of good for our football team.
22:28
Speaker 5: And you look at that missing those veteran guys. Obviously
22:32
Speaker 5: you want all your guys out there. We just talked
22:33
Speaker 5: about the Charges with their two best tackles out part
22:37
Speaker 5: of the NFL same time, great opportunity for guys. I
22:39
Speaker 5: think you look at last week, John Jones thrown into action,
22:42
Speaker 5: big pick early, had some PBu great job, he made
22:46
Speaker 5: some very impactful plays and he's gonna get better, more reps,
22:51
Speaker 5: more opportunity, more confidence, get better, and so there's opportunities
22:54
Speaker 5: Antonio Johnson being asked to play more than he has
22:57
Speaker 5: in his career, opportunities to start play more down he
23:00
Speaker 5: So typically you can start giving these guys opportunities. Is
23:05
Speaker 5: it always gonna be perfect? Is always gonna be cleaned?
23:07
Speaker 5: We have a bunch to clean up. But at the
23:08
Speaker 5: same time, those guys are getting more and more confident,
23:11
Speaker 5: being comfortable in the situation, things they have not been
23:14
Speaker 5: asked to do in their career before. The more reps
23:16
Speaker 5: you get, so got a lot of confidence in those guys.
23:18
Speaker 5: So obviously you always want your frontline guys out there,
23:22
Speaker 5: the guys that you guys like Eric Murray and Jordan
23:26
Speaker 5: Lewis because of their experience. But at the same time,
23:28
Speaker 5: you got guys getting opportunities and looking forward to them
23:31
Speaker 5: to go make the most of it.
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Speaker 3: Let's return, we'll dig into the Chargers defense and what
23:36
Speaker 3: they have to offer at all levels.
23:38
Speaker 5: So let's go.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot.
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Speaker 5: It's it's a lot your expert opinion, Yeah, okay, thank you.
23:44
Speaker 5: I'll share that with the head coach.
23:45
Speaker 3: And it's it's a lot. It's Jagg's HQ. You're a
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Speaker 3: lot on Jaguars right now. Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: Jags HQ presented by Fresh from Florida continues right now.
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Speaker 6: J P.
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Speaker 3: Shadwick, Jeff Loglan, James Gladstone, Tony Boselli. It is jags
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Speaker 3: Radio Network. Taking a final look at the Chargers Jaguars
24:22
Speaker 3: matchup in Week eleven. Well, we went through the Chargers offense.
24:26
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at their defense, and they rank
24:28
Speaker 3: highly in a lot of categories. They are certainly in
24:30
Speaker 3: the pass rush. I think they're type for fifth in
24:33
Speaker 3: the league in saxis years to Twoey Polosu, you're a
24:36
Speaker 3: usc guy. Tony is getting after eight sacks this year,
24:39
Speaker 3: a bunch of other guys with four or more sacks,
24:41
Speaker 3: So they kind of spread the wealth defensively. Upfront.
24:44
Speaker 2: It feels like, oh they're you know what, their capacity
24:47
Speaker 2: against the pass game is really high. They do an
24:51
Speaker 2: effective job. We talk about marrying the rush and coverage.
24:55
Speaker 2: You mentioned how their sack production is sewing itself well,
24:59
Speaker 2: a lot of that has to do with the fact
25:01
Speaker 2: that their coverage is so stable and sound. They do
25:03
Speaker 2: not give up easy shots, easy looks. Guys are in
25:08
Speaker 2: the right spots at the right times, at the right depth,
25:10
Speaker 2: and it makes it hard to compete passes with you know,
25:13
Speaker 2: timing and and cadence. And so that rush has been
25:17
Speaker 2: getting off and individual effort has gone a long way
25:20
Speaker 2: across it. Khalil Mack is still doing his thing and
25:24
Speaker 2: you know, really earning every bit of what he's getting paid.
25:26
Speaker 2: And you know, it's not an easy, easy look to
25:29
Speaker 2: go against. And so the stability across both the front
25:33
Speaker 2: and the back end with linebackers that can cover, I mean,
25:35
Speaker 2: it's a it's a tough outfit.
25:37
Speaker 4: What does Derwin James do to an offensive coordinator?
25:41
Speaker 2: He forces you to get the binoculars out and try
25:44
Speaker 2: to track where the heck he's lining up, you know,
25:47
Speaker 2: because he can be in a different spot. Let's call it,
25:51
Speaker 2: three straight plays, three different looks, and you got to
25:53
Speaker 2: account for it because he's somebody that's that's a prowler.
25:57
Speaker 2: He's going to be on the hunt, and you know,
25:59
Speaker 2: you got to understand what what not to you know,
26:03
Speaker 2: activate in certain moments because he's going to be somebody
26:07
Speaker 2: that can impact it greatly.
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Speaker 4: He makes plays that are just physically otherworldly at times,
26:16
Speaker 4: the level of strength and speed that he can play
26:19
Speaker 4: the game at. And you know, I haven't seen him
26:22
Speaker 4: a lot recently, but I mean when he first came
26:24
Speaker 4: into the league, it was like, this guy is different.
26:28
Speaker 4: And I mean he probably can play safety, nickel linebackers.
26:35
Speaker 2: And does he can rush?
26:36
Speaker 4: Probably? I mean he's got eighteen and a half career sacks.
26:39
Speaker 4: Could he play corner?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
26:41
Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 2: So he certainly shows signs of it out of the slot, right,
26:46
Speaker 2: And you're you're speaking a lot to physical capabilities, and
26:51
Speaker 2: that jumps out think about what goes into being as
26:54
Speaker 2: versatile as he is Outside of the physical He is
26:58
Speaker 2: a smart player that clearly puts in a lot of
27:01
Speaker 2: time in order to be deployed in the manner that
27:04
Speaker 2: he is right moved around so frequently those types of players,
27:08
Speaker 2: they are committed to their craft, and he has certainly
27:11
Speaker 2: done his part to put himself in this position and
27:14
Speaker 2: and make it so that he's somebody that offensive coordinators,
27:17
Speaker 2: play callers have to account for in every play.
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Speaker 4: The level of strength that he has on some of
27:22
Speaker 4: his tackles.
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Speaker 5: Oh, he's physical. Now he's a football player. About Lad
27:27
Speaker 5: McConaughey being the football player. D James is a football player.
27:31
Speaker 4: Wasn't Kyle Hamilton's same kind of player with the Ravens
27:34
Speaker 4: for a little bit different.
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Speaker 5: Probably not as physical or strong, but yeah, same versatil
27:39
Speaker 5: Klin lineup, so similar genre, but probably not as physical.
27:46
Speaker 4: Cayle Hampson's got better ball skills.
27:51
Speaker 5: James, he's the expert.
27:52
Speaker 3: I'll describe the player right exactly. There you go, all right,
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Speaker 3: Jaguars Chargers at home. Only a game here at the
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Speaker 3: Bank for a long time, two more weeks away after this.
28:05
Speaker 3: Every game is certainly important, but here at home, having
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Speaker 3: that home home field advantage.
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Speaker 5: For it's the most important game in the history of
28:12
Speaker 5: the franchise. It is, yes, it is. Literally, there's not
28:16
Speaker 5: There's never been a game played more important than this
28:18
Speaker 5: one in this franchise. Coming up one o'clock, one o'clock
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Speaker 5: Sunday at the Bank, Be there, be there. It's gonna
28:27
Speaker 5: be great.
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Speaker 3: Listen.
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Speaker 5: I'm excited, excited for the guys, excited for the whole
28:31
Speaker 5: or they excited for our fans. Very confident that this
28:37
Speaker 5: group of guys, our players are going to come out
28:40
Speaker 5: ready to play right mindset. It's gonna be a great challenge.
28:44
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a like I'm not going to say
28:47
Speaker 5: anthing about the outcome, but I'll tell you this, it's
28:49
Speaker 5: going to be a game that's going to be tough,
28:51
Speaker 5: physical because both teams are coached that way. Both teams
28:54
Speaker 5: are gonna play hard, and I'm looking forward to watching
28:56
Speaker 5: our guys go.
28:57
Speaker 4: I always like when I when you put my game
28:59
Speaker 4: board together, you know he got the coaches, you know,
29:01
Speaker 4: for the opposing teams. I always like to kind of
29:03
Speaker 4: look at the names, just because you always like to
29:06
Speaker 4: see some of the former guys that played the game.
29:09
Speaker 4: Two former greats, Mike, excuse me, Nick Hardwick, who played
29:13
Speaker 4: center for the Chargers for a very long time, was
29:15
Speaker 4: a really good football player, and not necessarily with the Chargers.
29:19
Speaker 4: Here Navarro Bowman, who was a really good linebacker for
29:23
Speaker 4: the forty.
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Speaker 5: Nine Ers, is the linebacker coach Haarbar was up in
29:26
Speaker 5: the Niners. He was one of the part of that
29:28
Speaker 5: were those great defenses that the Niners had back then.
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Speaker 3: Chargers Jaguars, gentlemen, I always appreciate it. Thank you ver much.
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Speaker 5: We look forward to it every week. JP. It's our
29:38
Speaker 5: favorite half hour of the week. Just to you and Jeff.
29:42
Speaker 5: I mean, wouldn't rather be anywhere else on planning to
29:44
Speaker 5: Earth right here right now.
29:46
Speaker 3: Appreciate that. Yeah, thanks a lot, Tony Vasseli, James Gladstone
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Speaker 3: joining us in studio each and every Thursday. Plenty ahead.
29:53
Speaker 3: We're about ten minutes away from Fred Taylor joining us.
29:56
Speaker 3: And this is JAG's HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
30:02
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30:17
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30:25
Speaker 3: here on Jaggs HQ and reaction. I said, well, was
30:29
Speaker 3: the vibe in the building this week? What do you
30:31
Speaker 3: think the vibe was in the building this week?
30:33
Speaker 4: Was the answer?
30:34
Speaker 3: I guess so well.
30:35
Speaker 4: I appreciate the honesty because you know, There's been some
30:39
Speaker 4: in the past that might have oh it was great,
30:40
Speaker 4: We're outstanding, and to worry lo the reality is is
30:44
Speaker 4: the reality? Yeah? You know, so I can't expect the
30:47
Speaker 4: football team feel good after giving up that many points
30:50
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter to a division opponent and an
30:52
Speaker 4: opportunity to send them into never never land, you know,
30:56
Speaker 4: and an opportunity for you to uh pad your and
31:01
Speaker 4: get more twice as many wins as losses, and you
31:04
Speaker 4: lost it.
31:06
Speaker 3: But now it's about moving forward, and they've got to
31:08
Speaker 3: try to move forward with a long injury report here,
31:11
Speaker 3: logs and.
31:14
Speaker 4: Past. This past game had injuries, but then now it
31:18
Speaker 4: seems to be even greater, which is a challenge. Hopefully
31:23
Speaker 4: you can get some guys back, but you hope that
31:27
Speaker 4: you're not rushing guys back like Brenton Strength, because that's
31:30
Speaker 4: the one guy that you don't want to have setback with,
31:32
Speaker 4: I think, out of any I mean, you don't want
31:34
Speaker 4: to set back with anybody, but that's you know, he
31:36
Speaker 4: had a pretty significant injury to the point where they
31:38
Speaker 4: put him on IR. When you have a guy that
31:40
Speaker 4: goes on IR and now all of a sudden he's
31:43
Speaker 4: coming back from an injury and then to expect him
31:46
Speaker 4: to have two days of practice essentially because Brady's not
31:50
Speaker 4: much of a practice and to be back ready to
31:52
Speaker 4: play again. That's kind of tough to do. So definitely
31:55
Speaker 4: got something to keep an eye on.
31:57
Speaker 3: And four offensive linemen are on the injury report this week,
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Speaker 3: four stars five.
32:04
Speaker 4: Is mckerry on there too, Yeah, he'd been banged up
32:06
Speaker 4: a little bit. So is Robert Hayten to the scenes,
32:08
Speaker 4: he's got a grown yeah, growing. And what else we
32:11
Speaker 4: got Ezra Cleveland and Asra's coming back hopefully week. Maybe
32:15
Speaker 4: I don't know, we're missing a game.
32:18
Speaker 3: It's that time of year.
32:19
Speaker 4: It's that time of year. So I guess cole Van
32:23
Speaker 4: Landon will plug and play wherever he needs to.
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Speaker 3: Go again, that's what he does, no doubt about side center.
32:29
Speaker 3: I actually talked to him in the locker room today
32:31
Speaker 3: about that's just a mentality. He's got to learn all
32:33
Speaker 3: five positions every week.
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Speaker 4: Value man.
32:35
Speaker 3: I mean it's then it was one game where he's
32:37
Speaker 3: having to learn tight end and you know, and what
32:39
Speaker 3: he played pretty.
32:40
Speaker 4: Well last week, and you know, in a game that
32:42
Speaker 4: you know, you're not feeling good about a whole lot,
32:45
Speaker 4: you know, like Jarian I think played pretty well. I
32:47
Speaker 4: think Cole van Landa played pretty well.
32:49
Speaker 3: We've got plenty ahead. Will returned with Fred Taylor, proud
32:51
Speaker 3: of the Jaguars running back and get his thoughts on
32:54
Speaker 3: the week that was and the opponent ahead. And this
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Speaker 3: is Jagg's HQ on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh from Florida continues
33:09
Speaker 1: right now.
33:10
Speaker 3: Welcome back JP shatterck with you. Jeff Logman back shortly
33:13
Speaker 3: prior to the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor joins us
33:16
Speaker 3: each week on Countdown to kick Off leading into each
33:18
Speaker 3: game on the Jaguars Radio Network. Caught up with it
33:21
Speaker 3: earlier today. This week, plenty to discuss about quarterback Trevor
33:24
Speaker 3: Lawrence moving ahead, but also how the Jaguars pass rush
33:28
Speaker 3: gets jump started.
33:29
Speaker 6: So you got your two bookends. You brought in a
33:32
Speaker 6: big time free agent to shore up the middle. Again,
33:36
Speaker 6: they play well in spurts, but the consistency isn't there,
33:40
Speaker 6: you know, and then those moments when they do get sacked.
33:43
Speaker 6: Shout out to Trey Munn. It's followed up by roughing
33:47
Speaker 6: the passers. So just playing smarter, they're gonna have to
33:50
Speaker 6: If they're gonna want to play that good zone defense
33:53
Speaker 6: from behind, they're gonna have to get pressured, you know.
33:56
Speaker 6: So it may be the rotation. Addressing the rotation where
34:00
Speaker 6: everybody's fresh. You know, Josh heinz Allen, he's playing almost
34:04
Speaker 6: every snap, He's influencing plays. He's playing really well. It's
34:07
Speaker 6: just that he doesn't have the sacks to show for it.
34:10
Speaker 6: But the pressure is there, the influence is there. He's
34:13
Speaker 6: feeding the other guys, helping the other guys make plays.
34:16
Speaker 6: But they I think the consistency is the bigger concern,
34:19
Speaker 6: and addressing that by way of rotation, getting some of
34:23
Speaker 6: those young fresh legs in there at the right moments
34:26
Speaker 6: can potentially help them turn that around.
34:29
Speaker 3: Fred Taylor with us Prid of the Jaguars running back
34:31
Speaker 3: and now on the other side of the Jaguars offense
34:34
Speaker 3: against this Chargers defensive group that has some veteran players
34:38
Speaker 3: on the back end, they've got guys up front that
34:40
Speaker 3: can get after it. Of course, Khalil Mack all these
34:43
Speaker 3: guys have multiple sacks up front, so they know how
34:46
Speaker 3: to get after the passer. So as the Jaguars offense,
34:48
Speaker 3: what's the approach today is especially if it's Trevor Lawrence.
34:51
Speaker 3: They've talked this week Fred about him letting it rip,
34:55
Speaker 3: so to speak, down the stretch. Maybe that's more of
34:57
Speaker 3: a broad mentality than a game to game thing.
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Speaker 4: But what do you make of all this?
35:02
Speaker 5: On offense?
35:03
Speaker 6: I think the mindset is you want to enter the
35:05
Speaker 6: game with the thought process of running the ball, establishing
35:09
Speaker 6: the run. There's so much more efficient and their offense
35:13
Speaker 6: is a little bit more high power when they're able
35:16
Speaker 6: to run the ball because they can do so many
35:18
Speaker 6: things off of the run.
35:19
Speaker 5: You got play action.
35:20
Speaker 6: Then you also have screen game that you can implement
35:23
Speaker 6: play action screen which they've shown to work well. You know,
35:28
Speaker 6: even getting the tight ends back involved. You know, off
35:30
Speaker 6: those actions, you have some boot actions where the tight
35:34
Speaker 6: ends can seep out until the cover is late, or
35:37
Speaker 6: even crossing routes. And these are the things that we
35:41
Speaker 6: started Jags doing well the first couple of weeks of
35:44
Speaker 6: the season. And then you take pressure off the offensive
35:47
Speaker 6: line who has struggled. We could go versus the Texans.
35:50
Speaker 6: The Neil Hunter took full advantage of the offensive line
35:54
Speaker 6: and created pressures at the right time that put Houston
35:57
Speaker 6: in position to come back and win that game. So
36:00
Speaker 6: if you're running the ball, you're allowing your defense and
36:03
Speaker 6: opportunity to rest up so you can avoid those moments
36:06
Speaker 6: that happened a week ago. If you're running the ball,
36:08
Speaker 6: you're taking pressure off your offensive line. You don't give
36:12
Speaker 6: guys like Khalil Mack an opportunity to get excited and
36:16
Speaker 6: get after the quarterback. He isn't as great of a
36:19
Speaker 6: player as he was when he first came in the league,
36:22
Speaker 6: but he still has a lot of tank. He a
36:24
Speaker 6: lot in his tank. He's a savvy vet. And on
36:26
Speaker 6: the back end, Derwin James, he's their coverage leader. He's
36:30
Speaker 6: gonna blitch you. Just a great player, potential Hall of
36:35
Speaker 6: Famer in my opinion, in Derwin, one of their best
36:38
Speaker 6: players on the team. You want to influence him as
36:41
Speaker 6: well in the run game because he's going to be active.
36:43
Speaker 6: So run the ball, create some play action opportunities for yourself.
36:48
Speaker 6: Get back to the screen game, get the tight ends
36:50
Speaker 6: involved and Trevor take advantage of the checkdowns, you know,
36:54
Speaker 6: get it out to the batch early once they're at
36:57
Speaker 6: their spots. Allow the linebackers to come up and coverage
37:02
Speaker 6: to want to now defend the checkdown game and after
37:05
Speaker 6: that play action, have them draw the linebackers in then
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Speaker 6: throw the ball behind them with the crossing route game
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Speaker 6: in the past game to the receivers and hopefully they
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Speaker 6: catch the ball and then that's the formula for success.
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Speaker 3: That's Fred Taylor, of course, proud of the Jaguars running
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Speaker 3: Back to full conversation soon on the Jaguars Podcast Network
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Speaker 3: and you'll hear it again Sunday on Countdown to kick
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Speaker 3: Off ahead of the Chargers Jaguars matchup. Jeff Logoman back
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Speaker 3: when we return. It's Jaggs HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, It is Jags HQ presented by Fresh from
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Speaker 3: Florida JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman. Glad you're with US Chargers
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Speaker 3: Jaguars coming up. Well, you'll heard from Fred Taylor there.
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Speaker 3: Thanks to him each and every Thursday, have a chance
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Speaker 3: to catch up with him. We run it a lot
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Speaker 3: on the podcast network and on Countdown a kickoff. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: running the football is a mentality for the team. Fred
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Speaker 3: said it. They don't really have to say it because
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Speaker 3: that's what the Jaguars team needs to be leading with
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Speaker 3: their running back Travis etn Jr. Well, I think they
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Speaker 3: need to be that first and foremost because the quarterback
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Speaker 3: play is not where it needs to be at yet,
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Speaker 3: and so to help the quarterback make things easier for him.
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Speaker 3: Strong running game makes it a lot easier for the quarterback.
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Speaker 3: And give Eat had a lot of credit. He's averaging
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Speaker 3: I think yards per game is the highest in his career.
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Speaker 3: He is just a notch blow yards per carry, his
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Speaker 3: yards per carry best in his career.
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Speaker 4: He's doing an exceptional job. And the thing that I
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Speaker 4: think that has impressed me most about him is the
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Speaker 4: consistency week in and week out in which he's running
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Speaker 4: the ball with great authority, and that's been the impressive
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Speaker 4: part to me. And I think Baseial Tooton, I think
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Speaker 4: there's still a lot of meat left on the bone
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Speaker 4: with him for this offense and for him once he's
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Speaker 4: on the field, and also some I think some creative things.
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Speaker 4: At some point they may do even more of the
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Speaker 4: two backs on the field at the same time. The
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Speaker 4: Wildcat was kind of a little bit of a change
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Speaker 4: up pace and I got a little bit maybe too
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Speaker 4: creative a little bit on one play. But that kind
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Speaker 4: of happens when you do certain things, but give a
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Speaker 4: lot of credit to him because he is keeping this offense.
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Speaker 4: I think afloat with the chance in the passing game, though,
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Speaker 4: it needs to start finding its rhythm. You know, we're
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Speaker 4: you know, you understand that this is the first year
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Speaker 4: in the system for Trevor Lawrence. We're getting at the
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Speaker 4: point now to where you want to start seeing that
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Speaker 4: comfort and that experience start to pay off.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they've told him to let it rip this week.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Liam Cohen had that conversation with him.
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Speaker 4: Well, and he's right. I mean that's and I think
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Speaker 4: talking with Mark Duffner earlier, the definition of letter rip
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Speaker 4: means make the right decision, make it quick, and let
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Speaker 4: it go. You know, it doesn't mean just start throwing
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Speaker 4: the ball okay and the tight windows that don't exist
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Speaker 4: just to rip it. I mean, it's not about that.
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Speaker 4: It's about still being smart with the ball, but recognizing it,
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Speaker 4: having the confidence that you're seeing what you're believing, and
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Speaker 4: then not hesitating to make the throw to get Oh,
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Speaker 4: let me get a micro second of confirmation, because a
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Speaker 4: lot of times in the NFL, that microsecond of confirmation
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Speaker 4: that sometimes you feel you need as a quarterback closes
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Speaker 4: the window and then it closes the opportunity doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 4: close the window for the ball, but maybe closes the
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Speaker 4: window in the pocket. And you get sacked because you
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Speaker 4: didn't say, oh, yeah, there is Pow, it's out, instead
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Speaker 4: of your like, I think it's there. I think it's there.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm under pressure. You know you missed
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Speaker 4: your opportunity. No, it's there, Let it go.
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Speaker 3: I love the sound effects Powell. It's like the old Batman.
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Speaker 4: That's my John matt in imitation. He's the by the way,
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Speaker 4: one of the greatest announcers of all time. He made
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Speaker 4: football must see TV.
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Speaker 3: some final thoughts ahead of this Chargers Jaguars matchup. It's
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Speaker 1: Welcome BACKHQ presented by Fresh from Florida continues right now.
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Speaker 3: Final few moments of Jags HQ Week eleven. The Chargers
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Speaker 3: Jaguars in Jacksonville between October twelfth and December seventh. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's been a while since the Jags have been at
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Speaker 3: the Bank and it might it'll be a few weeks
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Speaker 3: again before they're back another time. Some backloaded home games
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Speaker 3: this year, of course, but this is a good chance
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Speaker 3: come out. Two teams in the playoff race. Chargers currently
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Speaker 3: the five seed they're chasing Denver and the AFC West
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Speaker 3: for that division, it's a really tough division, certainly, and
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Speaker 3: the Jaguar is currently the seventh seed in the AFC
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Speaker 3: playoff race.
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Speaker 4: You better play good defense in that division, do you think?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Come on Denvers really good now, yeah, and the Chiefs
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Speaker 4: are getting hot. So well, the Chiefs got Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 4: They do, It's all you need to know about. Then
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Speaker 4: they got Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the league.
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Speaker 4: I don't care what the ratings say or the attempts
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Speaker 4: or the completion percentage. He's the most dangerous quarterback in
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Speaker 4: the league by far.
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Speaker 3: From the Jaguars perspective, when this week, you know, everything's cool.
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Speaker 3: You know you've got tie breakers against the Chiefs and
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Speaker 3: the Chargers. At that point, with business still to attend
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Speaker 3: to a head lost in, it's still not over you.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you get your act together after this week,
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Speaker 3: then you can still handle business.
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Speaker 4: It's not over.
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Speaker 3: But boy, you need to go try to play better
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Speaker 3: this week.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest reason is just
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Speaker 4: you just after a loss like you had in Houston,
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Speaker 4: you want to get past that and you just want
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Speaker 4: to move on. Well, the only way that you get
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Speaker 4: past that and move on is by winning, because if
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Speaker 4: you don't win, then all of a sudden, then it's well,
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Speaker 4: the Houston Texans beach twice. Okay, what are you going
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Speaker 4: to get over? The hangover? The text and Wallace right,
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Speaker 4: and so you keep talking about that, so you win
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Speaker 4: against the Chargers. Now it kind of wipes that slate clean,
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Speaker 4: and now you can move forward because now you're living
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Speaker 4: in the moment instead of living in the past. Let
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Speaker 4: it rip, blogs, Hey love, let it rip, but don't
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Speaker 4: just let it rip willy nilly around, closing your eyes
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Speaker 4: going none, no, no, no, no, Throw it accurately, man.
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Speaker 3: That's Jeff Logoman. I'm JP Shaddercker. Thanks to Tony Bacelli,
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