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The Doug Pederson Show | The Head Coach on Trevor Lawrence, a Lot to Still Play For · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought you by Fresh
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Speaker 1: from Florida. JP Shadwick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discuss
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Speaker 1: the latest Jaguars news with the head coach. That Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show starts right now.
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Speaker 2: And the Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida
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Speaker 2: from the Hundai Studios at the Miller Electric Center. We're
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Speaker 2: on the Jaguars Radio Network and back after a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks away. JP Shadrick with Jeff Logoman at Coach
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson in studio with us.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you again. Yeah, good to see you guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's been a couple of weeks. It's been a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Here on Thursday on the network. Head coach back of
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Speaker 3: the studio with us. All right, let's begin with the biggest.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, last week, Trevor Lawrence takes the hit in the game,
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Speaker 2: placed on injured reserve earlier this week.
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Speaker 4: Where's he stand and why the decision now to do that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean obviously, player safety, you know,
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Speaker 3: player health is his first and foremost and and obviously
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Speaker 3: he was dealing with the shoulder and he really, i
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Speaker 3: mean did everything that he possibly could, you know, to
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Speaker 3: get himself ready to play against Houston.
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Speaker 5: And that was always our goal was to get him
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Speaker 5: ready for Houston.
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Speaker 3: And and you know, and then unfortunately the hit and
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Speaker 3: and and knocked him, knocked him out, and then of
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Speaker 3: course you lose the game, and it kind of eliminates
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Speaker 3: you from any any potential you know, postseason of anything.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, really for us, I think as
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Speaker 3: an organization, for Trevor uh, the best decision would be to,
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Speaker 3: you know, go ahead and shut him down, go ahead
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Speaker 3: and let it he first fall, he's got to he's
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Speaker 3: got to clear the protocol and and that's the first thing.
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Speaker 3: And and make sure that you know, he's good and
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Speaker 3: healthy there and and then and then schedule you know,
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Speaker 3: the surgery and and fix the shoulder and and really
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Speaker 3: begin the you know, the rehab process and and you know,
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Speaker 3: hopefully get him ready for you know, the off season
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Speaker 3: program and and you know into next season.
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Speaker 2: You know, since Sunday, the conversation has been almost only
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Speaker 2: about the hit and people's opinion on the hit, and
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Speaker 2: the reaction to the hit, and your reaction to the hit,
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Speaker 2: and the Tomiko's reaction to the hit. I think what's
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Speaker 2: kind of gotten lost in all of this is how
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Speaker 2: is Trevor doing health wise from the hit?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean I saw him, you know,
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Speaker 3: Monday and obviously Tuesday and and and really you know
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Speaker 3: he's been in the building doing his doing his protocol
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Speaker 3: that that he needs to do.
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Speaker 5: But you know, the last couple of he's getting better.
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Speaker 5: But but it's still.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was a significant hit, you know when
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Speaker 3: when you saw it and and and hitting his head
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Speaker 3: on the ground, and and you know, I don't know
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Speaker 3: everything about head trauma and all that, nor do I
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Speaker 3: care to, but you.
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Speaker 5: Know it's gonna it's gonna take some time, I think
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Speaker 5: on this one.
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Speaker 3: And and so you know, each day gets better for him,
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Speaker 3: and you know, we we just want him to rest
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Speaker 3: and heal up and and and get himself ready.
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Speaker 2: And when your quarterback goes down mathematically, you guys are
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Speaker 2: eliminated from the playoffs at this point, what do you
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Speaker 2: use to motivate your football team with five games remaining,
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Speaker 2: especially this week because you got a division opponent.
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Speaker 3: I you know, I lean on the I lean on
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Speaker 3: the leadership of the team, and really I challenge those guys,
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Speaker 3: you know, we've still got five games, and our season
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Speaker 3: doesn't end because we're not in the postseason. And you're
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Speaker 3: playing for pride, you're playing for you know, the sometimes
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Speaker 3: the name on the back of your jersey and and
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Speaker 3: what are you going to put out there on tape?
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Speaker 3: And and so for us and these are division division
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Speaker 3: games too, so they mean a lot. And and then
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Speaker 3: how we finish the season can say a lot to
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Speaker 3: the direction that we go in the offseason, right, So
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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of pride at stake, honestly,
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Speaker 3: And and then it.
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Speaker 5: It's my job to make sure that they don't go
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Speaker 5: in the tank.
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Speaker 3: Right, It's my job to say, hey, guys, you know,
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Speaker 3: we still have a lot to play for, and you
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Speaker 3: have a lot to play for.
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Speaker 5: I have a lot to coach for or and and.
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Speaker 3: You know that right there, and then leaning on the
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Speaker 3: leadership of the group, you know, gets us through.
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Speaker 5: You know, these next few weeks.
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson with us, You've won a lot of games
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Speaker 2: in your career, you had a lot of winning seasons.
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Speaker 4: Is this is this your toughest season as a head coach?
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Speaker 3: You think, oh, by far, by far, And you know
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Speaker 3: it's tough because of the way we're losing. You know,
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Speaker 3: if it's the other way around, you go, wow, the
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Speaker 3: way we're winning games is just you know, by the.
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Speaker 5: By the hair of our chin.
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Speaker 3: And and yet, you know, I keep telling the football team, like, guys,
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Speaker 3: these games come down to like two or three plays
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Speaker 3: a game, and you never know which ones are gonna
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Speaker 3: be and you got to continue to do your job.
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Speaker 5: And it's a sixty minute football game.
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Speaker 3: It's not a fifty eight minute football game or a
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Speaker 3: fifty nine minute football game. You got to play and
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Speaker 3: lock in every single down. And and I think it's
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Speaker 3: disappointing from the standpoint of you know, we we we're
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Speaker 3: finding ways to lose, you know, if that makes sense
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Speaker 3: as opposed to finding ways to win. And if you
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Speaker 3: watch our practices, if you watch the guys during the week,
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Speaker 3: they put in the time, they put in the effort,
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Speaker 3: they put in everything that they.
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Speaker 5: Need to right for Sunday.
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Speaker 3: But then there's a I don't know, call it a disconnect,
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Speaker 3: call it you know, whatever you want. But sometimes it
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Speaker 3: doesn't translate to the game, and we make these mistakes
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Speaker 3: that get magnified and you can't go searching for football plays.
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Speaker 3: You have to just continue to do your job, and
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Speaker 3: you could go the entire game doing your job and
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Speaker 3: the ball may not even end up in your in
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Speaker 3: your court, let's call it, right, But the second you
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Speaker 3: go and do something different, the ball ends up right there.
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Speaker 5: It's just, you know, so you can't take things in
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Speaker 5: your own hands. You got to continue to do your job.
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Speaker 3: That's coaches and players. No, I'm not listen, I don't
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Speaker 3: point the finger and all that.
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Speaker 4: It's it's I.
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Speaker 3: Look at me too, and what am I doing to
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Speaker 3: help the team win as well? And you know, we
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Speaker 3: just haven't done enough that way.
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Speaker 2: I think if you look at the two Houston games
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Speaker 2: when you talk about, hey, look, we're just not finding
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Speaker 2: a way to win, if you look at both Houston games,
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Speaker 2: I think they're a perfect example of that. The first
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Speaker 2: game in Houston, opportunity with the lead and an offense
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Speaker 2: with the control of the ball to put the game away.
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Speaker 2: Weren't able to do that and weren't able to get
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Speaker 2: a stop defensively. This Houston game here recently, you needed
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Speaker 2: to get a stop because Houston had the ball. Kind
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Speaker 2: of roles reversed a little bit in both games, and
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Speaker 2: you guys weren't able to get the stop in that
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Speaker 2: four minute drill and they were able to kill that clock.
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Speaker 2: And that's got to be frustrating when you kind of
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Speaker 2: have it happened both ways.
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Speaker 5: It is, and I think that's the hard thing to really.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, when we get into the offseason,
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Speaker 3: we start diving back in and looking at the season,
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Speaker 3: and we're going to sit and we're going to be
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Speaker 3: shaking our heads and we're going to be frustrated. And
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Speaker 3: it's not that we're a lesser team or have less
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Speaker 3: talent than it.
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Speaker 5: We're right there with all these teams.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look at some of the you know, look
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Speaker 3: at Green Bay and Philly and Minnesota, and you're, you're Houston's,
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Speaker 3: You're You're right there. You're beating these teams, especially in
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Speaker 3: the second half of the games.
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Speaker 5: You're beating them.
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Speaker 3: Our challenge is how do we get past how do
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Speaker 3: we get through that that barricade?
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Speaker 5: How do we win that game? And then and then
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Speaker 5: when you win one, you okay, there's a little bit
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Speaker 5: of a recipe for success, and you build.
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Speaker 3: Onto that, on onto that, and and and so that
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Speaker 3: that's the disappointing thing, right when you look at those
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Speaker 3: two games, as you mentioned, it's frustrating because you have opportunities.
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Speaker 5: To win both games.
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Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us and I'm moving ahead
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Speaker 2: here down the stretch. I mean, everybody's saying, oh, play
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Speaker 2: the young guys, let's see some young guys.
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Speaker 4: How much of that is real?
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Speaker 2: How much evaluation do you need to see of players
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Speaker 2: who might not have had opportunities earlier in the season,
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Speaker 2: or you know, young guys that have played a lot.
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior still got a lot to play for
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Speaker 2: this year. A guy like that, I mean, how do
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Speaker 2: you balance the does a head coach down the stretch with.
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Speaker 4: Hey, let's go win the football game too.
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Speaker 3: You know, I want to win these five games, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: flat out. I want to win these games. And who's
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Speaker 3: on the field. I don't care who's on the field.
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Speaker 3: I want to win these games. And that's got to
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Speaker 3: be the mindset of our team.
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Speaker 5: I think when you have a month a little over
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Speaker 5: a month left of your season and you.
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Speaker 3: Start pulling guys back, I think you're sending a bad
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Speaker 3: message to your guys that we're waving the white flag,
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Speaker 3: we're conceding, and I don't want to do that. We're
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Speaker 3: crying uncle, and I use that metaphor a little bit
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Speaker 3: in a team meeting the other day. Let's not cry, uncle,
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Speaker 3: let's not tap, let's not let's not give in. And
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Speaker 3: so I want to win these games. And we still
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Speaker 3: have something to prove to ourselves, right, We still got
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Speaker 3: to correct some mistakes. We still have to coach, We
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Speaker 3: still have to get guys playing at a high level.
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Speaker 3: And I think if I start pulling back, then I
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Speaker 3: can't finish that task, right, And so I want to
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Speaker 3: keep I want to keep pushing forward. Man, I want
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Speaker 3: to keep you know, I want to keep swinging, keep chopping,
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Speaker 3: as they say, and and and try to win five games.
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Speaker 4: I'm hearing her Edwards somewhere.
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Speaker 6: Go.
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Speaker 4: You play to win the.
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Speaker 5: Game, absolutely exactly, you know.
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Speaker 2: And if you're gonna win this game against Tennessee, you
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Speaker 2: better block those two big dudes up in the middle
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Speaker 2: man Sweat and Simmons. Uh. Arguably the two biggest, most
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Speaker 2: powerful defensive tackles that you're going to face this year,
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Speaker 2: probably next to the Philadelphia Eagles. A pair that they have. Uh,
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Speaker 2: they are a load, that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: They are.
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Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons is one of the best tackles in this league.
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Speaker 3: You put them in the top you know, two, three,
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Speaker 3: maybe maybe one. I mean he's he's right there. And
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Speaker 3: and then you know, Sweat the kid they got the
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Speaker 3: rookie is is a is a monster human being and
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Speaker 3: they list him at like three sixty six. I think
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Speaker 3: he's I think he's a biscuit shy of you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe three sixty seven.
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Speaker 5: But no, they are too powerful and big, strong guys.
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Speaker 5: They they plug the middle.
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Speaker 3: You definitely have to get you know, combo blocks on
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Speaker 3: them and and things of that nature, and.
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Speaker 5: You know, move them the best you can.
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Speaker 3: But we've always had great, great games against against those
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Speaker 3: guys and and look forward to that again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and blocking those guys. I bring that up because
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got a backup quarterback in Mac Jones playing,
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Speaker 2: and obviously when you have a backup quarterback playing, what's
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Speaker 2: backup quarterback's best friend is a running game. And in
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Speaker 2: order to run the ball, you got to block those
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Speaker 2: two big dudes, which is not gonna be easy. Uh
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Speaker 2: So quite the challenge to say the least.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you're absolutely right, and you know, as as I said,
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Speaker 3: you know you got to get your your blocking schemes
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Speaker 3: have got to be a lot of combos. You're gonna
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Speaker 3: have to single them up from time to time because
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Speaker 3: they will present you some five men fronts, and you know,
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Speaker 3: when Landry comes in, they want to play some base
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Speaker 3: defense and things of that nature, you know, And and
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Speaker 3: so blocking them as a task. And then you got
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Speaker 3: our And I think Arden's playing playing better this year.
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Speaker 3: He's playing fast, he's he's another one that's playing physical
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Speaker 3: and and he's created some some.
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Speaker 5: Force fumbles this season on quarterbacks and and uh and
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Speaker 5: Landry's Landry. So it's a it's a good group. It's
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Speaker 5: a solid group up front.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's a it's another it's another good opportunity,
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Speaker 3: another good test for our offensive line.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you bring up those edge guys and by the way,
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Speaker 2: I thought your tackles played fantastic against those two edge
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Speaker 2: guys of Houston this past week. Parker Washington really took
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Speaker 2: a step up this past game. Brian Thomas Junior, we
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Speaker 2: know about him, but I thought what Parker did this
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Speaker 2: past game was really impressive to show the ability that
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Speaker 2: he has and the dependability exactly right.
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Speaker 5: I love Parker.
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Speaker 3: You know, go back to preseason, the type of preseason
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Speaker 3: that he had and the expectations that that we had
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Speaker 3: for him coming out of camp, and and we were
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Speaker 3: all excited about where Parker was going his career and
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Speaker 3: how he's developed and grown. And then he gets an
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Speaker 3: opportunity now and and he just each week gets gets
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Speaker 3: better and better and and you're you're right, BT is
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Speaker 3: gonna get you know, his targets, and and it's unfortunate
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Speaker 3: we missed him, you know, twice down the field and
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Speaker 3: for for big plays and and those are those are
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Speaker 3: game changers, you know, And and so we know BT
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Speaker 3: is gonna get his stuff. But Parker came in, played tough,
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Speaker 3: played physical, heck of a catch on the touchdown reception,
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Speaker 3: and really really has been a spark for us offensively,
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Speaker 3: you know, particularly in the passing game along with BT.
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Speaker 2: Let's finish on the other side of things now, defense
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Speaker 2: going against this Titans offense, and Will Levis has played
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Speaker 2: better football since coming back in the lineup in Week
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Speaker 2: six statistically, you know, eight touchdowns, three picks since then,
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Speaker 2: rating in the ninety four area. And I guess the
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Speaker 2: next five weeks for them is to see if he's
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Speaker 2: the guy there for the long term. What do you
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Speaker 2: see of Will Levis on tape.
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Speaker 5: I mean the numbers right there are exactly what you see.
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Speaker 3: He's protecting the football better, not putting it necessarily in
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Speaker 3: harm's way, you know. So so yeah, it's a it's
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Speaker 3: an offense. They can you know, obviously they lost a
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Speaker 3: piece in in DeAndre Hopkins, but you know Calvin has
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Speaker 3: has kind of stepped up in that role and and
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Speaker 3: you know they they do. They do some things that
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Speaker 3: are that are going to keep you off balance, and
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Speaker 3: and they've done that to us in the past. But
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Speaker 3: you know, Will has done a nice job of just
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Speaker 3: kind of running the offense and using his athleticism and.
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Speaker 5: His arm strength and things like that, and.
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Speaker 3: Another you know, it's a young quarterback that that we've
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Speaker 3: got to be able to get after. If we can
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Speaker 3: disrupt him, right, and in that ball disruption that we
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Speaker 3: talk about a lot, then that's where the takeaways, right
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Speaker 3: and the giveaways and things of that nature can can
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Speaker 3: come into play. And we've got to be able to
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Speaker 3: create some, you know, on Sunday. So give our offense
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Speaker 3: another another opportunity.
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Speaker 2: Watching him a couple of weeks ago, he got sucked
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Speaker 2: like eight times against Houston, but impressed the heck out
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Speaker 2: of me because late in that ballgame, after getting hit
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Speaker 2: as many times as he did, he still wasn't peeking
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Speaker 2: at the rush, which is for a young quarterback. It's
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Speaker 2: pretty impressive to.
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Speaker 4: Be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: And the guys that I think really are stood out
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Speaker 2: to meet Chigo Konquo the tight end, Pollard the running back.
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Speaker 2: Your linebackers are going to be tested.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna be tested, you know, the middle of the field.
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Speaker 3: And and you know Pollard, you know, can be can
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Speaker 3: be one of those dynamic, electric, you know running backs.
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Speaker 5: I mean he can.
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Speaker 3: He's got the speed and quickness and he can a
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Speaker 3: tough enough to run through the tackles and quick enough
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Speaker 3: to get around the edge and also the middle of
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Speaker 3: the field right just attacking linebackers, attacking leverage.
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Speaker 5: So our guys, you know, will be prepared, they'll be
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Speaker 5: ready to.
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Speaker 3: Go, looking forward to the opportunity and the challenge, you know,
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Speaker 3: against the good football team.
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Speaker 4: Doug, thanks for the time, good luck in Nashville this week.
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Speaker 4: Let's get a win on the road. Yep, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us about twenty minutes away
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Speaker 2: from Fred Taylor, pride of the Jaguars running back joining us.
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Speaker 2: It's the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back The Dub Peters Show, who continues right now.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida, J P.
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Speaker 2: Shadwick Jeff Flagman. We're at the Hundai Studios at the
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Speaker 2: Miller Electric Center thanks to head coach Doug Peterson in
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Speaker 2: studio with us, first time in a few weeks. Had
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Speaker 2: the bye week and then Thanksgiving and a lot going
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Speaker 2: on around a team that's now two to ten eliminated
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Speaker 2: from playoff contention officially after the Monday night Denver Broncos win,
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Speaker 2: which is a great.
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Speaker 4: Game, by the way, it's a side note. And of course,
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Speaker 4: now the quarterback Trevor Lawrence is done for the year.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm his reaction when I asked him,
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Speaker 2: you know, hey, everybody wants to play the young guys.
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Speaker 4: Now you're eliminated.
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Speaker 2: You know what's the balance of that while still trying
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Speaker 2: to win games? And that long pause kind of told
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Speaker 2: you his mind was turning, and you, yeah, yeah, you're
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Speaker 2: playing to win football games, all five of these as
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Speaker 2: a head coach and really as a player you should
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Speaker 2: be too.
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Speaker 4: I mean the.
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Speaker 2: Reality is is that as a coach, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you messcessarily have the luxury to play young guys
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Speaker 2: to kind of figure out where they are and develop
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Speaker 2: for next year. You know for sounds great, right Well yeah,
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Speaker 2: meania it does. But that same token, I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: he's got a job to do, and he's paid to
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Speaker 2: do a job, and if you know, and part of
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Speaker 2: that job is winning football games. And right now they're
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Speaker 2: not winning a lot of football games. So I think
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Speaker 2: as a coacher wanting to do everything you possibly can
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Speaker 2: to just like a player, you know, it's about the money, okay,
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Speaker 2: and being a professional, and as a coach to be
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Speaker 2: still the coach, you know, you got to win football game.
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Speaker 2: So that's where all of his attention is at. And
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Speaker 2: I think along the way, if you have some young
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Speaker 2: players that have showed you some promise, then I think
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Speaker 2: that you would play them not so much just to
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Speaker 2: play them, but to to kind of let them, you know,
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Speaker 2: blossom a little bit. You know, maybe have an older
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Speaker 2: guy who's trending down and the way he plays, the
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Speaker 2: younger guy who maybe is trending up and the way
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Speaker 2: he's playing, and so you kind of maybe say Hey,
16:57
Speaker 2: let's go with the young guy here in this situation.
17:00
Speaker 2: Maybe he's going to be hungrier, but there's not a
17:02
Speaker 2: whole lot of positions you could really do that with
17:05
Speaker 2: very few actually, And then his thoughts on Trevor Lawrence
17:09
Speaker 2: and his move to I R and the reasons behind
17:12
Speaker 2: that all kind of makes sense.
17:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, it totally makes sense.
17:15
Speaker 2: And you know it's again, you know, wanted to ask
17:18
Speaker 2: that question about how he's doing, and it was good.
17:20
Speaker 2: Here he's doing well, and you know, that's a that
17:23
Speaker 2: was a vicious hit. And you know, I've had concussions
17:26
Speaker 2: I think when I played before, but I've never had
17:30
Speaker 2: a moment where I assumed the fencing position and was
17:34
Speaker 2: by all appearances, Trevor was knocked out. So that's pretty scary,
17:40
Speaker 2: you know, considering that that was the second concussion he
17:42
Speaker 2: sustained in the last year or so ballpark, So uh,
17:47
Speaker 2: definitely it was time to shut him down. That's the
17:50
Speaker 2: best decision for the franchise. There's a lot going on
17:52
Speaker 2: in his personal life too. They got baby Lawrence coming
17:55
Speaker 2: here fairly soon. I mean all that, I mean, there's
17:58
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that what's going on.
18:00
Speaker 4: He's coming off the concussion.
18:01
Speaker 2: They got to work on the shoulder off the field,
18:04
Speaker 2: and then just all that's gonna happen and then he'll
18:06
Speaker 2: be ready for the off season program. Yeah, the off
18:08
Speaker 2: the field stuff, I don't think it's taken into consideration.
18:11
Speaker 2: I think no, I'm just I didn't say it was
18:13
Speaker 2: right right, right, But I think the bottom line is
18:17
Speaker 2: is that you need to make the best decision for
18:19
Speaker 2: your franchise going forward when you have the sizeable investment
18:23
Speaker 2: that you do in Trevor Lawrence and the expectation of
18:27
Speaker 2: him to be the leader of your football team for
18:30
Speaker 2: many years to come. So it's not necessarily about thinking
18:34
Speaker 2: about now, but it's also thinking about where you're going
18:37
Speaker 2: to be at in the future.
18:40
Speaker 5: Well.
18:40
Speaker 2: Now, the immediate future for the Jaguars rests on the
18:43
Speaker 2: play of Mac Jones at quarterback, and the two starts
18:47
Speaker 2: we've seen him didn't play that well on in relief
18:50
Speaker 2: last week after Lawrence was gone from the game, played
18:53
Speaker 2: pretty well, especially in the fourth quarter. They had to
18:55
Speaker 2: push it, they had to fight back, they had to
18:58
Speaker 2: score quick, and they did and got within one score.
19:00
Speaker 2: And the defense, obviously the Texans defense is playing a
19:04
Speaker 2: little bit differently at that point in the game than
19:06
Speaker 2: they were early on. And I got to give some
19:10
Speaker 2: credit to the Jaguars offensive line because I thought they
19:12
Speaker 2: did a really good job in this ball game, first
19:14
Speaker 2: and foremost, after Trevor got hurt. Their ability to run
19:18
Speaker 2: the ball and get points at the end of that
19:20
Speaker 2: drive without having to throw the ball or worrying about
19:22
Speaker 2: throwing the ball, I thought was impressive. But then the
19:25
Speaker 2: Jaguars got into an obvious passing situation and the Texans
19:29
Speaker 2: possess the two best edge rushers in the National Football League.
19:34
Speaker 2: If you look at it from a number stand point,
19:35
Speaker 2: that doesn't lie really good players. And I thought that
19:39
Speaker 2: Walker little and drawing a blank on the other Anton Harrison,
19:45
Speaker 2: thank you. I thought they did a tremendous job. And
19:48
Speaker 2: that was probably their best game in pass protection for sure,
19:53
Speaker 2: because that was the two best players that they were facing.
19:55
Speaker 2: And so I thought they did a great job. And
19:58
Speaker 2: you know, the reality is that Jones has shown that
20:02
Speaker 2: if you flash at him or he gets pressure, his
20:06
Speaker 2: feet get messed up. His pocket was so clean on
20:11
Speaker 2: multiple occasions in that game. He could not help but
20:14
Speaker 2: have calm feet and accurate throws in that situation. So
20:19
Speaker 2: kudos to the offensive line. How many sacks did they
20:22
Speaker 2: allow in that game? By the way, Yeah, I don't
20:25
Speaker 2: think it was a one sack. I think they might
20:27
Speaker 2: hit the quarterback twice. Let's see here. I don't think
20:30
Speaker 2: they allowed a sack. No, no sacks, But I mean impressive, right, Yeah,
20:36
Speaker 2: totally impressive.
20:38
Speaker 4: So kudos to the offensive line.
20:39
Speaker 2: But the reality is is that Mac Jones needs to
20:43
Speaker 2: continue to play well this week for a lot of reasons.
20:46
Speaker 4: One for the.
20:47
Speaker 2: Team to win, two for him. He's looking at the
20:51
Speaker 2: end of his contract. He's looking at positioning himself for
20:54
Speaker 2: free agency to maybe get back in the conversation about
20:59
Speaker 2: being a star arding quarterback in the National Football League
21:02
Speaker 2: instead of a backup, which the pay is vastly different
21:06
Speaker 2: between starter or competing for a starting job in a backup.
21:10
Speaker 4: I think.
21:11
Speaker 2: So huh, We're back in a moment plenty ahead. We'll
21:14
Speaker 2: get into the defensive side about ten minutes away. We'll
21:17
Speaker 2: hear from Fred Taylor as well. Prior to the Jaguars
21:20
Speaker 2: running back It's the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
21:29
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
21:34
Speaker 6: J P.
21:34
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21:41
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21:48
Speaker 2: Titans coming up in Week fourteen, Nashville, Tennessee and Heson Stadium,
21:52
Speaker 2: one o'clock eastern tickoff time, and one of two games
21:56
Speaker 2: remaining against the Titans this year.
21:59
Speaker 4: Titans will be back here week seventeen. Yeah, next to
22:03
Speaker 4: last game. Yeah, that's right, that's right.
22:05
Speaker 2: And they got a last home game correct here correct.
22:11
Speaker 2: The Jaguars run game, they'd love to take that to
22:13
Speaker 2: Nashville with them if they could this week. With Mac
22:16
Speaker 2: Jones of course out there, that would help settle some things,
22:19
Speaker 2: balance it out. But the run game has been disappointing.
22:23
Speaker 2: I guess is a good word for it this year.
22:25
Speaker 2: Both running backs have had moments where they've had some
22:27
Speaker 2: injury concerns and they just can't find any traction on
22:32
Speaker 2: the ground. Bigsby five hundred and forty seven rushing yards,
22:35
Speaker 2: four touchdowns eatn three seventy one and two scores.
22:40
Speaker 4: On the ground this year.
22:41
Speaker 2: But I mean, look at Bigsby's average per carry number,
22:44
Speaker 2: it's five point four. You know, he had a nice
22:47
Speaker 2: run on Sunday against Houston, and I think he, you know,
22:52
Speaker 2: is the better runner of the two right now. And
22:55
Speaker 2: I think that both of their skill sets compliment each
22:58
Speaker 2: other as far as the roles that they can play.
23:01
Speaker 2: They kind of started out though, with Etn kind of
23:03
Speaker 2: being that main guy, and then they went to Biggs
23:06
Speaker 2: be later on. I would play Bigsby more on first
23:09
Speaker 2: and second down and let Etn kind of be that
23:11
Speaker 2: third down back.
23:12
Speaker 4: But that's just me.
23:15
Speaker 2: One thing I'd like to I'd love to see an
23:17
Speaker 2: increased role, more targets opportunities for Brenton Strange. You know,
23:22
Speaker 2: when you you've had a lot of issues that wide receiver,
23:25
Speaker 2: and I know that you just brought a guy in
23:27
Speaker 2: by the name of Josh Reynolds, who they acquired off
23:31
Speaker 2: of waivers from the Denver Broncos, but you know, you
23:35
Speaker 2: really don't have a third wide receiver that you go
23:38
Speaker 2: wild with. And I think with Evan Ingram and Brenton Strange,
23:41
Speaker 2: the ability to keep both of those guys on the field,
23:43
Speaker 2: I think it's good. And I also think that there
23:48
Speaker 2: every time that Brenton Strangers had an opportunity to catch
23:50
Speaker 2: the ball. Even as past game he had that one catch,
23:52
Speaker 2: which was only one catch for fourteen yard if.
23:54
Speaker 4: He ran over a guy and cut.
23:56
Speaker 2: I think it was like fourteen yards and just every there.
24:00
Speaker 2: The more he touches the ball, the more you like.
24:02
Speaker 2: And I just wish that he had more opportunities in
24:04
Speaker 2: this offense.
24:06
Speaker 4: Plenty ahead.
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24:23
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24:29
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24:40
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
24:45
Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida Welcome
24:49
Speaker 2: Back along the Jaguars Radio Network JP, Shadwick, Jeff Loghim
24:53
Speaker 2: back with us shortly. Pride of the Jaguars running back
24:56
Speaker 2: Fred Taylor with us this week talking about the motivation
25:01
Speaker 2: needed in the stretch run with five games to go
25:04
Speaker 2: and out of the playoff race, but also the move
25:06
Speaker 2: of quarterback Trevor Lawrence to injured reserve.
25:09
Speaker 7: You know, I think it was a great decision. Is decision,
25:13
Speaker 7: you know, for for Trevor. You know, I believe overall
25:16
Speaker 7: it was for the Trevor's future and his long term health,
25:22
Speaker 7: and also for the Jaguars future, you know, and in
25:25
Speaker 7: the team's long term health as well, because it seems
25:28
Speaker 7: that the team is only going to go as Trevor goes,
25:32
Speaker 7: you know, with the investment recent leaders past offseason. I
25:35
Speaker 7: believe it was a great business decision, but more importantly
25:39
Speaker 7: just a decision that allows the Jaguars to say, we
25:43
Speaker 7: are a high class organization. We care what's going to
25:46
Speaker 7: happen with the rest of the season, but as it
25:48
Speaker 7: pertains the Trevor Lawrence, we are more concerned about his
25:52
Speaker 7: health and what we can the help we can get
25:55
Speaker 7: him right now.
25:56
Speaker 6: So I thought it was a great decision.
25:57
Speaker 7: We called for it on the post game, you know,
25:59
Speaker 7: I was advocate from saying, hey, maybe they should shut
26:02
Speaker 7: him down. And now that they've announced that he's shut down,
26:06
Speaker 7: he can have his procedure on his shoulder, and so
26:08
Speaker 7: to just get better, you know, not just physically, but mentally.
26:11
Speaker 7: He can find himself in a good space and they
26:14
Speaker 7: can look now to start evaluating to see what they're
26:17
Speaker 7: going to do with the other guys by giving them
26:19
Speaker 7: opportunity to play.
26:21
Speaker 2: I guess it's not too late to find a killer
26:23
Speaker 2: instinct and win some of these games. They just haven't
26:26
Speaker 2: figured out a way to do it in the last
26:28
Speaker 2: seven times they've had a chance to do it. So
26:29
Speaker 2: why would they start now? How do you finish a
26:32
Speaker 2: football game.
26:33
Speaker 6: This point in the season.
26:34
Speaker 7: That's a great question, Japer, You hit it on the head.
26:36
Speaker 7: Why would they start now? I mean, just looking around.
26:39
Speaker 7: I'm sure the scouting department they're looking at they've looked
26:42
Speaker 7: at the entire season. What's available on the college ranks,
26:47
Speaker 7: you know, what they can possibly use where we need
26:50
Speaker 7: to get better at. If it's across the O line,
26:52
Speaker 7: D line, you know, secondary receivers, I'll say that again, receivers.
26:59
Speaker 6: Arizona has a great.
27:01
Speaker 7: Young receiver who's gonna be a top pick, and most
27:05
Speaker 7: of these teams are sort of looking at draft picks,
27:08
Speaker 7: and this is a battle of the uglies. These next
27:10
Speaker 7: couple of weeks they played the Raiders. Who's up there,
27:14
Speaker 7: same record. The Jets aren't appealing in their record. The
27:17
Speaker 7: Titans again aren't too great in their record. I don't know, right, like,
27:22
Speaker 7: what do you do as a staff? You don't I
27:26
Speaker 7: don't want to use the word tank. Do you just
27:28
Speaker 7: try stuff? Do you look around and try players?
27:31
Speaker 5: You know?
27:31
Speaker 7: Not trying stuff isn't just trying different plays or gadgetry
27:36
Speaker 7: or any of that stuff. It's let's look at our
27:39
Speaker 7: roster and let's see, you know, in terms of evaluations, evaluating,
27:44
Speaker 7: let's see who we can possibly bring back next year.
27:47
Speaker 6: We can have a better look at this player.
27:49
Speaker 7: We didn't have an opportunity to look at him when
27:51
Speaker 7: the starters were there. Maybe we can look at this
27:54
Speaker 7: player a little bit more. Started to kind of taper
27:56
Speaker 7: down the starters a little bit, you know, for injury
27:59
Speaker 7: purposes and wear and tear, to hopefully get them to
28:02
Speaker 7: the off season safely. But again, I'm not in those conversations.
28:06
Speaker 7: I'm not in the building. I don't know, mindset of
28:09
Speaker 7: the front office, the scouting department.
28:12
Speaker 6: It's a lot, it's a lot.
28:13
Speaker 7: But as a player, you know, regardless of what they're
28:16
Speaker 7: doing in the front. What I've always said was I'm
28:19
Speaker 7: here to play ball. You know, I'm here the ball
28:22
Speaker 7: until somebody pulls me out. I remember somebody pulled me
28:26
Speaker 7: out when I was close to some incentives suit once
28:28
Speaker 7: upon a time. That's a whole different conversation, Isn't it
28:32
Speaker 7: Like I'm drifting.
28:33
Speaker 4: That's actually right up our alley. If we want to
28:35
Speaker 4: go down this path today.
28:37
Speaker 6: I am drifting. I mean, we need a little excitement
28:40
Speaker 6: this late in the.
28:40
Speaker 7: Season, right Well, I digress. I won't even bring it up,
28:44
Speaker 7: but hopefully you know, as a player, man to a man,
28:49
Speaker 7: these guys have the mindset of one.
28:51
Speaker 6: I have to compete, you know. That's what I was
28:54
Speaker 6: born to do.
28:55
Speaker 7: I do it every single day, and that's what I'm
28:57
Speaker 7: going to do to finish this season.
29:00
Speaker 2: Taylor Pride of the Jaguars running back. The full conversation
29:03
Speaker 2: coming soon on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network, and of
29:07
Speaker 2: course more this Sunday on Countdown to kick Off here
29:11
Speaker 2: on the Jaguars Radio Network, we'll return Jeff Logman back
29:14
Speaker 2: with us. It's The Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
29:28
Speaker 1: Welcome back The Doug Peterson show continues right now.
29:33
Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida on
29:36
Speaker 2: the Jaguars Radio Network, Presented by the University of Florida,
29:40
Speaker 2: number one university in the US News and World Reports,
29:43
Speaker 2: number one state for education, JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman or
29:46
Speaker 2: thanks to Fred Taylor, Pride to the Jaguars running back.
29:50
Speaker 2: Of course, Doug Peterson's winning us in the opening segment.
29:53
Speaker 2: Each and every week we do not have a show
29:55
Speaker 2: the last two weeks. We're back baby the rest of
29:58
Speaker 2: the year, each and every Thursday.
30:00
Speaker 4: Yeah excited. Yeah, it's a lot going on it.
30:04
Speaker 2: Look, the reality is that this this team is out
30:07
Speaker 2: of it. But you know, the one thing that you
30:10
Speaker 2: look forward to watching is how this team responds. You know,
30:14
Speaker 2: because if you're in the evaluation process of looking at
30:19
Speaker 2: this football team, these last five games will tell you
30:22
Speaker 2: a lot, you know. I just I really believe that,
30:25
Speaker 2: and that you can find out the true character of
30:28
Speaker 2: a lot of your guys. You think you have the
30:29
Speaker 2: right culture, Well you're going to find out for sure
30:32
Speaker 2: with some guys if they have the right things that
30:35
Speaker 2: are inside of them. Because you've got to be somebody
30:38
Speaker 2: who is internally motivated here because there's no external motivation,
30:42
Speaker 2: there's no postseason, there's none of that. The motivation has
30:47
Speaker 2: got to be within. And then also, you know, as
30:49
Speaker 2: as a player, we said this before. You know the
30:52
Speaker 2: financial implications, that's the reality of it. And fortunately you're
30:57
Speaker 2: playing some teams that are kind of in the same boat,
31:00
Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, are they in the same boat emotionally?
31:04
Speaker 4: I don't know. We'll see what was.
31:06
Speaker 2: Your worst season that you're a part of my probably
31:12
Speaker 2: my rookie season eighty nine. Yeah, Yeah, it was just
31:15
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, you're just into the NFL,
31:18
Speaker 2: which is very difficult just because it's a you know,
31:23
Speaker 2: college you were playing ten to eleven games. Then all
31:25
Speaker 2: of a sudden you go in the NFL and you're
31:27
Speaker 2: playing preseason games and then sixteen games at that point.
31:31
Speaker 2: Now it's seventeen and it's a lot, and it just
31:33
Speaker 2: takes a toll on the body. And then we had
31:37
Speaker 2: essentially a lame duck head coach and Joe Walton who
31:40
Speaker 2: was let go at the end of the year, and
31:41
Speaker 2: then you're four and twelve that year, yeah, we weren't
31:44
Speaker 2: very good. Weren't very good. And then under Bruce Coslet.
31:47
Speaker 2: The years after that in New York pretty good, and
31:49
Speaker 2: then here obviously with the newness of nineteen ninety five
31:52
Speaker 2: and the expansion team, even though we weren't winning a
31:54
Speaker 2: lot of games, and we knew that we were building
31:57
Speaker 2: something and it was difficult in ninety five, but we
32:01
Speaker 2: knew that we we were playing for more than just
32:04
Speaker 2: ninety five. We were playing for ninety six and ninety
32:07
Speaker 2: seven and ninety eight, ninety nine, because we were trying
32:11
Speaker 2: to establish something and to build something.
32:13
Speaker 4: It was just no, there's no history. Yeah, I had
32:16
Speaker 4: to build it, yep.
32:17
Speaker 2: So so that part of it was good, and that
32:20
Speaker 2: you know, you never really went into a game thinking, wow,
32:23
Speaker 2: you know, we're mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
32:25
Speaker 4: We never felt that way because we knew that there.
32:28
Speaker 2: Was a there was something bigger that we were after,
32:31
Speaker 2: and that was something bigger in the future.
32:33
Speaker 4: Right, that's a longer term look at that point.
32:36
Speaker 2: Now, though, I mean, it's different now because there is
32:39
Speaker 2: history here well, and you know, look, the expectations of
32:42
Speaker 2: this team this year were high, and with high expectations
32:47
Speaker 2: comes either great satisfaction or a great disappointment. And right now,
32:53
Speaker 2: it's great disappointment and can you can you minimize the
32:58
Speaker 2: amount of disappointment. It'd be very difficult to do that,
33:00
Speaker 2: I mean because even if you win the remaining five games,
33:02
Speaker 2: it's like, uh, you'd feel better about it, but it's
33:06
Speaker 2: the same token you'd be like, ah, especially with your
33:09
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33:13
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33:39
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34:00
Speaker 1: Them Back The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
34:04
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34:08
Speaker 4: Shadwick with Jeff Logoman.
34:10
Speaker 2: Our thanks to head coach Doug Peterson's winning Hiss reopening
34:13
Speaker 2: segment each and every week, and then Fred Taylor prior
34:16
Speaker 2: to the Jaguars running back with us this evening Jaguars
34:21
Speaker 2: Titans rivalry, and it's fairly rare that both.
34:24
Speaker 4: Teams are so far out of a race.
34:27
Speaker 2: It's usually one team's kind of near the top, and
34:30
Speaker 2: Tennessee has a lot of times been that team. Clearly,
34:33
Speaker 2: that's like nine and seven, they're on the cusp. They're
34:36
Speaker 2: a wild card team. They had a nine and seven
34:38
Speaker 2: year where they missed the playoffs at one point. And
34:41
Speaker 2: then of course the year a couple of years ago,
34:44
Speaker 2: the Jaguars overtook Tennessee. They were injured down the stretch.
34:47
Speaker 2: Jaguars kept winning games, the Titans kept losing them, and
34:51
Speaker 2: like they're both in the mix, and that this the
34:54
Speaker 2: last time it's been this bad. It's twenty fifteen. Jacksonville
34:57
Speaker 2: finished that season five and eleven. Tennessee finished three and
35:00
Speaker 2: thirteen that year. That's the last time both teams.
35:05
Speaker 4: Were this bad. This laid into it.
35:07
Speaker 2: It's if you look at around the league, I mean,
35:09
Speaker 2: it's the worst bottom of the division that there is
35:12
Speaker 2: in the National Football League. I think the only ones
35:15
Speaker 2: that you would probably say are in there the New
35:18
Speaker 2: York Jets, New England Patriots, which they have six combined wins,
35:23
Speaker 2: but the Jaguars Tennessee at five they take the cake.
35:27
Speaker 4: Not very good.
35:28
Speaker 2: I mean Dallas and New York where they see east,
35:32
Speaker 2: there's seven combined wins Dallas, Dallas five and seven Giants
35:35
Speaker 2: to inten Jackson Titans right now, they got that title. Oh,
35:39
Speaker 2: NFC South stinks. That's an entire divisions terrible. The leaders
35:43
Speaker 2: are six and sick. Correct, But the two bottoms how
35:46
Speaker 2: many wins.
35:47
Speaker 4: Four and eight and three and nine, so seven total? Exactly?
35:50
Speaker 4: You're right.
35:51
Speaker 2: Not good, not good, coach, not good. Point differential? Is
35:55
Speaker 2: that the worst point differential in the National Football League
35:57
Speaker 2: that the Jaguars have, Wars and Tennessee both at minus
36:02
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven. The only team that is worse
36:05
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers at minus one hundred and forty nine.
36:11
Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that's a wow. And they've got three wins.
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Speaker 2: Though they do three wins, they do minus one hundred
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Speaker 2: and forty nine point deferential. That is not good.
36:26
Speaker 4: No, that's where we are.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's week fourteen, and this is going to
36:31
Speaker 2: be it's different, you know, it's it's kind of different worlds.
36:36
Speaker 2: Jaguars in year three of this head coaching regime, and
36:42
Speaker 2: they've got a quarterback who they've already extended. They've got
36:45
Speaker 2: key players they've already extended around him on defensive side
36:49
Speaker 2: of the ball too. Tennessee's got a first year head coach.
36:52
Speaker 2: They've got a quarterback they still want to make sure
36:55
Speaker 2: is the guy moving ahead, and he's got five games
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Speaker 2: left to try to prove that down the stretch. And
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Speaker 2: it's just a newer world. So they're looking more like, Okay,
37:05
Speaker 2: let's build something to go into this next season, the
37:08
Speaker 2: moving ahead. There are so many questions around the Jaguars
37:10
Speaker 2: after this season. Well, the vision and the Tennessee's vision
37:13
Speaker 2: is kind of like what the Jaguars were ninety five
37:15
Speaker 2: that I was talking about.
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Speaker 4: You look into the future, you know.
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Speaker 2: But there's still, you know, some questions with you know,
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Speaker 2: Kyleahan as their head coach and Will Levis as their quarterback.
37:24
Speaker 2: But you if you look at Will Levis, the one
37:26
Speaker 2: thing that has been I think for me, if I'm
37:29
Speaker 2: a Tennessee Titans fan encouraging about him, is that you
37:33
Speaker 2: go two weeks ago against Washington, he got I mean
37:37
Speaker 2: not Washington, Houston, he got sacked a bunch, and he
37:41
Speaker 2: was able to really stand tall in the pocket even
37:44
Speaker 2: after he was harassed a bunch and standing there make throws,
37:48
Speaker 2: which there's a lot of guys that they can't do that.
37:50
Speaker 2: I mean kind of once they get off the mark,
37:52
Speaker 2: then then the rest of the game they're off the mark.
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Speaker 2: But he was able to kind of still stand in
37:57
Speaker 2: there and make the throws and make some deep throws
37:59
Speaker 2: that were impressive. You know, if you look at the
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Speaker 2: way he's trending. Early in the season, he started out
38:05
Speaker 2: and he didn't look very good. I mean he was
38:08
Speaker 2: quite honestly, he was pretty pretty bad. And then he
38:11
Speaker 2: missed I think three games in the middle of the season,
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Speaker 2: and then since then he missed Buffalo, Detroit and New
38:20
Speaker 2: England games, and then ever since he's come back from that,
38:23
Speaker 2: he's been a lot better. His passer rating over the
38:25
Speaker 2: last couple of games has been about one hundred, so
38:28
Speaker 2: he's been pretty good. So Jaguars better get ready because
38:32
Speaker 2: I think he's feeling good about himself. The Tennessee Titans
38:35
Speaker 2: are feeling good about being at home, and the Jaguars are,
38:39
Speaker 2: you know, playing with a backup quarterback and haven't been
38:41
Speaker 2: eliminated you know, So it's gonna be a it's gonna
38:44
Speaker 2: be a really interesting game because you know, here's a
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Speaker 2: game that's all about want.
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Speaker 4: Yeah right, you know.
38:49
Speaker 2: When I say want, who wants to win? Who wants
38:51
Speaker 2: to play? Who's willing to do all the things that
38:54
Speaker 2: are not easy to get to win? You know, the
38:57
Speaker 2: the gritty, the tough, the things that hurt. Who's willing
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Speaker 2: to do that? Who wants to do that?
39:03
Speaker 4: Is it a.
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Speaker 2: Jaguars team that has a lot of questions going forward?
39:08
Speaker 2: Or is it a Tennessee Titans team going forward that
39:12
Speaker 2: is looking for some answers and solutions but kind of
39:15
Speaker 2: had they have a vision in place? We'll see, we'll
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Speaker 2: find out. Sunday at one o'clock. We're back in a
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Speaker 2: moment with a look at Thursday night football. What a
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Speaker 2: game on deck to night? Great game, great game. I
39:29
Speaker 2: may stay up a little late and watch this game.
39:32
Speaker 2: Usually I'm a ten o'clock night night guy. I may
39:35
Speaker 2: watch it back with more at the moment. It's the
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
39:47
Speaker 2: Final moments of The Doug Peterson Show presented by fresh
39:50
Speaker 2: from Florida, j P.
39:52
Speaker 4: Shadwick with Jeff Logoman.
39:54
Speaker 2: Thanks to the Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson's winning US
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Speaker 2: in the opening segment each and every Thursday.
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Speaker 4: So Fred Taylor this week, proud of the Jaguars running back.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to the Jaguars Titans final thoughts coming up.
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Speaker 2: But tonight a massive game in the NFC Norrith on
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Speaker 2: Thursday Night football. The nine in three Green Bay Packers
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Speaker 2: meet the eleven and one Detroit Lions at Ford Field.
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Speaker 2: And this is what everybody's been waiting on in First
40:21
Speaker 2: of all, a good Thursday night matchup. Second, this matchup
40:26
Speaker 2: between division rivals in December. Big, it's it's a well
40:29
Speaker 2: it's a division game. And if the league tries to
40:32
Speaker 2: put more and more of the division matchups in the
40:34
Speaker 2: month of December. You know, we were talking about point
40:37
Speaker 2: differential and how Carolina and the Jaguars and Tennessee are
40:41
Speaker 2: real bad point differential. How about Detroit at plus one
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Speaker 2: point eighty. I think that might be best at the
40:48
Speaker 2: National Football As I said, they had about fifty of
40:50
Speaker 2: those against US, uh right, well against were there they
40:55
Speaker 2: were plus forty six, They were plus.
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Speaker 4: Forty six exact gets the Jags plus one eighty overall.
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Speaker 4: Oh man, Yeah.
41:05
Speaker 2: That was that was a painful game. Painful game, worst
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Speaker 2: loss in Jaguars history. It was literally glad somebody took
41:16
Speaker 2: the mantle from the ninety five.
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Speaker 4: Team already glad. Really, I'm not. I'm not, but I'm joking. Obviously,
41:24
Speaker 4: I'd rather that rest with.
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Speaker 2: An expansion team because then you can say, Okay, I
41:28
Speaker 2: understand it. Of course, Detroit eleven and one, they are
41:31
Speaker 2: the current number one seed in the NFC playoff race
41:34
Speaker 2: right now in Green Bay is the second wild card team,
41:37
Speaker 2: the sixth seed currently at nine and three and three
41:41
Speaker 2: teams are in the mix from the NFC North. Of course, Detroit,
41:45
Speaker 2: Minnesota is the five seed at the moment in green
41:47
Speaker 2: Bay six. I think that the head coach of Minnesota
41:52
Speaker 2: helped me out on the name drawn a blank, Kevin O'Connell.
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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, I mean him and and Dan I think
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Speaker 2: our coach of the year Canada, Dan Campbell. And the
42:04
Speaker 2: reason I say that is, I mean, first of all,
42:06
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell's done a tremendous job and he's he's fun
42:09
Speaker 2: to watch, he's fun to listen to. His response about
42:13
Speaker 2: not having any class about how he drinks wine out
42:15
Speaker 2: of the bottle was classic. Love him, his players love him.
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Speaker 2: But Kevin o'conn on the job that he's done with
42:22
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings without really a starting quarterback of.
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Speaker 4: They got yeah, I mean, it's amazing, you know.
42:34
Speaker 2: And the crazy thing is is that, you know, the
42:36
Speaker 2: the NFLPA has this survey that they do with all
42:39
Speaker 2: the players around the National Football League and it's kind
42:41
Speaker 2: of a survey of where a team ranks at, you know,
42:45
Speaker 2: the food, the facilities, et cetera, et cetera on down
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Speaker 2: the line, and the Minnesota Vikings always come back very
42:55
Speaker 2: high in all those ratings. And I think a big
42:58
Speaker 2: part of that is the job that Kevin O'Connell does
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Speaker 2: as head coach. And for him to do what he's
43:05
Speaker 2: been doing with different quarterbacks is impressive. From Kirk Cousins
43:11
Speaker 2: to now Sam Darnold to who knows it may be
43:16
Speaker 2: the quarterback formerly of the New York Giants at some point,
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Speaker 2: Dan Jones, you know, Sunday one o'clock, Eastern Jaguars, Titans.
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Speaker 4: Who wants it? Who wants it?
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Speaker 2: That's the story. I think that's it. Who's got the want.
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Speaker 2: Who's got the wont you know? Last year you would
43:36
Speaker 2: have thought that the Jaguars had the want and that
43:38
Speaker 2: season finale with an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot
43:41
Speaker 2: if they beat the Tennessee Titans in Tennessee. The Tennessee
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Speaker 2: Titans had more want. They beat them and an eliminade
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars from the playoff and concluded the most arguably
43:54
Speaker 2: the most disappointing conclusion of the season ever where they
43:57
Speaker 2: lost five out of the last six six games. And
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Speaker 2: so yeah, this game is about one just like that
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Speaker 2: one was last year. Tonight, Jaguars All Access on Fox
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Speaker 2: with special guests. My man, the biggest strongest man that
44:16
Speaker 2: there is, Trayvon Walker. All right, go check him out. Logs,
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Speaker 2: we'll talk to you again. I guess we'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you again later this week because we've got stuff going
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Speaker 2: on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: We'll see you on this show next week.
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Speaker 2: That's Jeff logoing our thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaverbrook Hoffey,
44:31
Speaker 2: and Kate.
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Speaker 4: Waki, our entire crew.
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Speaker 2: I'm JP Shadrick saying good evening, and thanks for listening
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Speaker 2: to the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.