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Countdown to Kickoff | Fred Taylor Previews Jaguars' Week 17 Matchup Against Titans · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly conversation with part of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Titans Jaguars Week seventeen. Merry Christmas, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you had a good one. How's it going?
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's good, man. Christmas was good. Kids found out
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to Paris for Yeah, they'll be going
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  Speaker 2: to Paris for New Year. So that was their present.
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  Speaker 2: They opened these empty boxes and boom it has Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Paris Takeover was in there on some hoodies and they
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  Speaker 2: got tickets, that whole thing. So to see the smiles
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  Speaker 2: on their faces, you know that that made me feel great.
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  Speaker 2: And they only get one gift, Like we're at the
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  Speaker 2: point you get one or two gifts and that's that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, know the ones big Santa stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a pretty damn good gift, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: And but how's your French?
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  Speaker 3: Fred?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's awful. We is about the only thing
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  Speaker 2: I know, and and my wife knows a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: But my son Austin, and he took French four years
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  Speaker 2: in high school and he'll be kind of doing the
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  Speaker 2: translations for us. So yeah, he's excited more than anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: WE is usually the right answer when the wife asks
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  Speaker 1: a question.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the only answer almost.
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  Speaker 1: It's about right Fred Taylor with US week seventeen. You
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  Speaker 1: know this, well, this game last week against the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: was just painful again a lot of the same reasons though,
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  Speaker 1: I mean big plays on defense allowed the offense unable
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  Speaker 1: to get anything really going consistently. Let's start on defense.
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  Speaker 1: They're facing Mason Rudolph this week at quarterback for Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: and they've got powered in the running game and Calvin
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  Speaker 1: Ridley down the field. So you know what about this
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  Speaker 1: Jags defense now in week seventeen? How do they know?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same question every week? What do they do? Now?
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  Speaker 3: You know? They one? You have to start with not
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  Speaker 3: jumping out sides.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start there, oh man, Let's start with having a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of discipline. Start with acting like we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: veteran players that are getting paid a handsome ransom to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and do a job. Right, So diwal
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  Speaker 2: in on that. Focus on that. Learn how to line
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  Speaker 2: up properly, you know, know your assignments, you know, no
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  Speaker 2: buster coverages. That's going to make the job for the
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  Speaker 2: Titans that much easier if you do those things.
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  Speaker 3: Improperly or incorrect.
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  Speaker 2: So line up properly, stay on side, know your assignment,
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  Speaker 2: and go out there and compete. Just play hard, and
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  Speaker 2: really that's the formula that can help you get halfway
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  Speaker 2: through some of these losses that you've had, if you
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  Speaker 2: only just do what you're supposed to do. I think
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  Speaker 2: on the flip side, you mentioned Mason Rudolph Kelvin Ridley,
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  Speaker 2: who I know wants revenge, you know, more than a
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  Speaker 2: good performance. He wants to beat the Jags after you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming there for a year then going back, I mean
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  Speaker 2: leaving to go over to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: You can bet he's going to play his tail off.
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  Speaker 2: And Tony Parlot he's been their only real bright spot offensively.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he came in from Dallas and did well
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  Speaker 2: this year for what they had over there. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't expect it to be a high scoring game. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be a lot like the very first matchup. Hopefully the
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars don't need a last minute fourth down stop to
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  Speaker 2: preserve a victory, but if they do, they have to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared to go out there and make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Winger should be in the lineup this week. Darnell
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  Speaker 1: Savage in the concussion protocol, and you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: a little chippy after the game last week. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw his comments that hey, Warmer in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was ready to play, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And it was one of the most raw answers we've
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  Speaker 1: heard in that locker room this year. There's okay, there's
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  Speaker 1: a fine line there, right. You don't want to really
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  Speaker 1: upset the coaching staff and things, but you also got
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  Speaker 1: to tell the truth sometimes. And Andrew wingerd if anything,
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  Speaker 1: is going to go out there and tell you what
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  Speaker 1: he feels. Now he's got a chance to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play like he feels too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, NFL still is the hierarchy system.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you may think off season moose and you're
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  Speaker 2: going to give those guys a first bite at the apple. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: And you have guys that are quietly in the background,
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  Speaker 2: who knows their assignments, who you can depend on from
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  Speaker 2: a hustle and a competitive competing standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: I think Winger is that guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy who's played hard to stay
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  Speaker 2: around here, and he wants to show that I'm ready
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  Speaker 2: to play, and he's kept himself ready to play, So
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  Speaker 2: those comments don't bother me. If I were a coach, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got to find a way to get the players
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  Speaker 2: that want to play out there, the players that aren't
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  Speaker 2: gonna have the mental errors or are the you know,
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  Speaker 2: busted coverages or what have you. So if he's that guy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give him a shot. He might not be
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  Speaker 2: the most talented from a physically gifted or athletic standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: but if you know what you're supposed to do again,
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  Speaker 2: you're halfway there because you can anticipate things happening. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is on defense. It's personnel recognition, formation recognition.
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  Speaker 2: These are the concepts that potentially might come from these
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  Speaker 2: personnels and formations. And if you can get everybody lined
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  Speaker 2: up communicate fast on defense, then you can play better,
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  Speaker 2: put yourself in position and make plays. So and if
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  Speaker 2: wingers that guy, give him a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Bred Taylor with US Jaguars offense as the new left
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  Speaker 1: tackle this week.
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  Speaker 3: Walker Little is out, so.
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  Speaker 1: Van Landon is going to go there again. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: the running game. Tank Bigsby had a fumble last week
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  Speaker 1: to have those no, that's kind of popped back up again.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with that down the stretch. But
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  Speaker 1: there's always Brian Thomas Jr. And even he had a
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  Speaker 1: drop last week, it was a holding call, wouldn't matter anyway,
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  Speaker 1: But you got to keep feeding this guy. This is
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  Speaker 1: the positive really one of the biggest positive story in
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  Speaker 1: this team. I think down the stretches the development of
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 3: And what it means for the future. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's an outstanding talent.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's crushing a receiving record each and every week.
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  Speaker 2: I was asked if he's the next Jimmy Smith, and
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  Speaker 2: simply put, I said, he has a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: to do, but I love the potential, I love the upside.
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  Speaker 2: You have to continue to feed him. You know, double
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  Speaker 2: digit targets per game should be a goal of the
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator and potential. Hopefully they can get the offense
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  Speaker 2: inspired behind his play. Yes, we don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: any drops from our receivers, especially beautiful deep balls that
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  Speaker 2: they laid out for him last week. But he bounced back.
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  Speaker 2: I thought. I thought he bounced back, continued to get
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  Speaker 2: open hauled one end. Didn't get frustrated by that one
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  Speaker 2: MISSU there in the running game yeah, Tank can't fumble
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  Speaker 2: the ball. You know, Travis still waiting to see something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I'm trying to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. I can go and watch a ton of
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  Speaker 2: film possibly figure it out. But as of now, just
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  Speaker 2: look like his confidence is a bit shattered, potentially soaking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not understanding why he's not performing well, why
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  Speaker 2: he's not getting you know, those carries, those touches, and
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  Speaker 2: you need that sometimes. But if Tank keeps fumbling, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be forced to get the touches. That's just
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  Speaker 2: how it goes, and he has to be ready. So
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  Speaker 2: hopefully they can put something together man figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I think this could potentially be a low
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  Speaker 2: scoring game. I don't know a seventeen ten type matchup
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  Speaker 2: with the Jaguars win.
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  Speaker 1: Well it was last time it was ten to six?
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  Speaker 1: Is the final?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you know a lot of times in
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  Speaker 2: these divisional matchups, when you know each other so well,
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  Speaker 2: you can either go lower or guy can anticipate things
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  Speaker 2: happening and make bus and you know that sometimes leads
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  Speaker 2: to score. So still, overall, I think it'll be pretty
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  Speaker 2: low scoring game. And that doesn't mean go on your
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  Speaker 2: FanDuel or Art rock Back or whatever. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: in my mind, I think it's a low scoring game.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Gotta put that out there for sure. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get a sweep of the Titans.
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  Speaker 2: That would be nice, Fred, Yeah, take you back to
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine and do that. That would have been a
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  Speaker 2: little nicer. That still haunts me. Well, the sweep is
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  Speaker 2: a sweep, right, so you know, even if the Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: are having a down season, to beat the Titans twice
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  Speaker 2: in the season, it's something to you know, hopefully encourage
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  Speaker 2: yourself going forward to the next season.
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  Speaker 3: We need something we do.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if we can get it today. Fred, we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you in the post game. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: We we I will be there. Fun Voyage, Fun Voyage.