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Publix Tailgate Show: Beth Mowins, CBS Sports · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: With the call of today's game on CBS Sports, Beth
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  Speaker 1: Moens joining us now. And I believe Beth is the
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  Speaker 1: first time we've had you on a Jaguars game. It's
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  Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Yeah. The I when I
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  Speaker 1: was prepping for Monday Night Football several years ago, we
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  Speaker 1: actually had a Jags pregame, uh that we broadcast to
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  Speaker 1: no one but ourselves, a preseason game. So wow. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm anxious to actually be heard and have one in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. You are the first woman to call
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguars game. I know that. And you know, do
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  Speaker 1: you consider yourself a pioneer of sorts or is that
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  Speaker 1: too too heavy of a burden? You know? I I
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  Speaker 1: know that it means a lot um to other people
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  Speaker 1: and and hopefully is inspiring. Uh, two young boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls that want to get into this business. And and
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  Speaker 1: I do realize, um that the significance of it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of that. Um. But from my perspective, it's
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  Speaker 1: always been my day to day. It's always been my
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  Speaker 1: dream job and and something that I've pursued with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of vigor ever since i was young. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: as you know what, while you're in it and and
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  Speaker 1: you're focused on the task at hand. That does make
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  Speaker 1: it a little easier sometimes to to block out a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the noise. And then uh, perhaps JP go
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  Speaker 1: back afterwards and sort of embraced those moments and and
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  Speaker 1: sort of relish in the history of it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: What did you first realize that you wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: play by play? And how? I mean it's obviously difficult
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  Speaker 1: for anybody to move up the ladder, but what was
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  Speaker 1: the greatest challenge you've faced when you first got in
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  Speaker 1: the business. Well, I always, uh like sports and I
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  Speaker 1: like talking, So there was a perfect blend. Um lucky
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  Speaker 1: enough that I grew up as a coach's kid, and
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  Speaker 1: I had three brothers and a neighborhood full of little
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  Speaker 1: kids that loved kickball and whiffleball and football and basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So there was an always, always a game going on,
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  Speaker 1: and I was always yacking away. I I wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: trash talker. I preferred to be much more descriptive in
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  Speaker 1: my verbage. And so I knew from a young age.
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  Speaker 1: And then uh, mid seventies, the old NFL Today Show
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  Speaker 1: with Phyllis George. That was the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the old adage if you see it, then you
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  Speaker 1: can believe it and and figure out a way to
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  Speaker 1: make it happen. And watching Phillis was the first indicator
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  Speaker 1: for me that it was something that I could do.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's just a matter of, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: plowing forward with everything you've got it the the other
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  Speaker 1: lucky break for better or worse. Um. I never had
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  Speaker 1: anything else I wanted to do j B. So if
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  Speaker 1: there was a roadblock thrown in my way, it was
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of figuring out how to get under it,
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  Speaker 1: around it, through it, or over it and and continue
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  Speaker 1: on my way. Um I was. I was blessed to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of great role models, most of them
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  Speaker 1: men when I was first coming up that took a
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  Speaker 1: shine to me and wanted to share a lot of
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and information with me. That that was greatly beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: Beth Mullins with us CBS Sports, what is your balance
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  Speaker 1: of duties? Now? Are you still doing ESPN stuff as well?
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  Speaker 1: And you're jumping on CBS this week? How often are
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  Speaker 1: you on the Columbia Broadcast System? Now? This uh, this
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  Speaker 1: is always the crazy time of year. That there was
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  Speaker 1: a while where I was doing UM volleyball championships, soccer championships,
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  Speaker 1: college football, NFL men's basketball, women's basketball. I've been able
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  Speaker 1: to pare that down and narrow it down a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: so UM have had some basketball games on the schedule
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  Speaker 1: and have been UH doing college football with ESPN. I
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  Speaker 1: get an opportunity to enjoy some friends with the NFL
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  Speaker 1: on CBS this week and and possibly again at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the regular season. So UH been fortunate to
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  Speaker 1: to have my hand in a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand they replayed my prices right episode from
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  Speaker 1: last week, so I'll be expecting that royalties check anytime
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  Speaker 1: anytime now. I love it. Beths with us as the
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  Speaker 1: play by play at the game on CBS today. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the game now, Beth. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars have started some significant change. They fired the GM
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  Speaker 1: after last week's game. Dave Caldwell is out. That search
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  Speaker 1: will begin, if it hasn't begun already, it will officially
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  Speaker 1: begin after the season is over. Doug Marone trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep this team fighting. He's safe through the season. After that,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. It's a great challenge for Doug because they're
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  Speaker 1: out of the race. It's a young, beat up football
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  Speaker 1: team really both sides of the ball. They're on the
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  Speaker 1: third quarterback and you know they're one intent. I get it,
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  Speaker 1: but they're fighting in some of these games, Beth, and
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  Speaker 1: and I think Doug is a big reason why this
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  Speaker 1: group has stayed as close as they have this part
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, you know, you look at the schedule,
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  Speaker 1: it's three of the last four games that are within
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  Speaker 1: four points UM And you know, you hate to to
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  Speaker 1: talk about moral victories, Uh, those don't necessarily count in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, but that does I think show that the
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  Speaker 1: guys are still fighting. You know, the shelf life in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is so short that you know, even if
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  Speaker 1: you've got to turn to your backups or bring guys
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  Speaker 1: off the practice squad, there is such a hunger and uh,
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  Speaker 1: such a desire to prove that you belong that I
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  Speaker 1: think Doug and the coaching staff have been able to
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  Speaker 1: get the most out of those guys. Um And you know,
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  Speaker 1: tip of the cap to some of these veterans that
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  Speaker 1: are are making the most of an opportunity, and certainly
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  Speaker 1: to these young rookies that are coming in and having
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  Speaker 1: an impact. I mean, you know, James Robinson is one
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  Speaker 1: of the feel good stories of the season. We're certainly
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  Speaker 1: going to make a big deal on on the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: today about Robinson and Justin Jefferson trying to wrestle that
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year honor away from another quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: as good as Justin Herbert has been with the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: But I think there are some positives to take um
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  Speaker 1: and I think that you know, what other option do
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  Speaker 1: you have? It's not in anybody's DNA. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: too to call it quits before the season comes to
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  Speaker 1: its conclusion. You mentioned James Robinson and his running style
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  Speaker 1: is just fantastic to watch. He's hard to hit, he
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  Speaker 1: hits the whole uh, he's decisive and in fact, he
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  Speaker 1: only has eleven negative runs this entire season. To write
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  Speaker 1: that one down, you might want to take a note
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  Speaker 1: on that, and it's a it's an impressive stat I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because the guy's always falling forward, and if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have James Robinson, I don't know what they would be
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Ben. Yeah, and it's one of those stories.
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  Speaker 1: It's just amazing how everybody kept missing how good this
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  Speaker 1: kid was coming out of high school and coming out
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  Speaker 1: of college and and you know, credit to the Jags
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  Speaker 1: for finding this guy. Um, he's so uh compact and
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  Speaker 1: so powerful and you just see him able to run
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  Speaker 1: around guys and run past guys, but also when necessary,
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  Speaker 1: you know, run right through people. And it's been a
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  Speaker 1: real pleasure to watch him on tape and and some
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  Speaker 1: of the games that I've been looking at for the Jags.
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  Speaker 1: And and hopefully he can keep it up. It's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know something that he's chasing that scrimmage rookie record,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully he can continue to flirt with that and
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  Speaker 1: and make that a big story moving forward. Beth Bowens
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  Speaker 1: with Us from CBS has the play by play of
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars Vikings game today at one o'clock. On the
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  Speaker 1: other side, it's a Jaguars defense that is just beat
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  Speaker 1: up all over the field. The linebackers are about the
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  Speaker 1: only guys who've been out there most of the year,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Jack and Joe Schobert. But you look in the
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  Speaker 1: secondary is a lot of young guys, guys getting an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity because other players are injured, and this is not
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  Speaker 1: the week for that. With Jefferson and Feeling and those
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  Speaker 1: guys and Kirk Cousins slinging it around pretty well lately.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Minnesota offense. You mentioned Jefferson, but they've got
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  Speaker 1: guys outside that can match up very well, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like against this Jaguars secondary. Unfortunately for the Jaguars this week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a I think a tough time to come up
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  Speaker 1: against the likes of Feeling and Jefferson and Cousins. You
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  Speaker 1: could make the case he's been the best quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the league since thereby, uh, you know, over the last
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  Speaker 1: five weeks or so, So it's definitely gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: big challenge. Uh. It's a really a calling card for
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  Speaker 1: Shobourd and Miles Jack to just have monster afternoons and
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  Speaker 1: hope that those guys in the bat can rise up.
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  Speaker 1: Tough matchup for the Jags on the defensive side today.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Vikings team that needs it. Obviously, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: in the wild card race, but they won't be for
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  Speaker 1: long if they lose games like this. So you know
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be up for this game. There's no letdown
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  Speaker 1: game as certainly at this point of the year. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in the race in the NFL in December, there's
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as a letdown game or there shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be no And I think probably they were, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hit pretty hard in the face with that one in
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  Speaker 1: five start. And so this is some magic coming out
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  Speaker 1: of that I week, and and according to our research,
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  Speaker 1: a win for the Vikings and a loss for the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals moves Minnesota into that seven spot. Next week they
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  Speaker 1: face Tampa Bay, so an opportunity to pass Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: with the head to head if they get a win
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  Speaker 1: next week, and Detroit and Chicago, which you would think
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  Speaker 1: would be winnable, and then depending on New Orleans and
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, whether they've clinched or not, or whether
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees is back, an opportunity for them to do
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  Speaker 1: some damage down the stretch. So I would imagine, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they would be fired up and ready to roll. That's
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  Speaker 1: great stuff. I truly appreciate the visit and have a
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  Speaker 1: great call today of the Jacks. Appreciate it.