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Huddle Up | Titans vs. Jaguars Preview, AFC South Title on the Line · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought you by the Fields Total Group,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter J. P. Shatdrick bringing
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Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Wednesday of Week eighteen,
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Speaker 3: New Year's Eve. We're eight hours away from twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: We've got a busy show ahead. Our last look at
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars, Colts, Jaguar's gonna win on the road last week,
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Speaker 3: first look at the Titans Jaguars this week in week eighteen,
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Speaker 3: and yes, the division comes down to Week eighteen. A
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Speaker 3: win or a tie for the Jaguars and the Jags
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Speaker 3: would be division champions. A loss or a tie for
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Speaker 3: the Texans would also secure it for the Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: We'll get into all the scenarios coming.
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Speaker 3: Up and Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks is brought to
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Speaker 3: Shadwick John Oshan from the Hondai Studios at the Miller
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Speaker 3: Electric Center in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks, well, I guess it's
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six for him in about eleven hours in
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Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Good afternoon, Bucky.
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Speaker 4: What's up guy? No, no, no, no, no no no.
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Speaker 5: I'm on.
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Speaker 4: I'm on East Coast time. I'm gonna sit here on
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Speaker 4: the couch.
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Speaker 6: I'm a way for the ball to drop, whether it's
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Speaker 6: Ryan Seacres or Anderson Cooper, whichever one, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 6: watch them sarenade me into twenty twenty six, and then
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Speaker 6: I'm a click off the TV and go to bed.
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Speaker 7: Nah, I gotta figure your roaring through the La club
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Speaker 7: scene tonight.
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Speaker 2: This is sunset Bucky.
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Speaker 5: Brooks night out there after him.
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Speaker 4: I made a little deal. I'md a little deal with
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Speaker 4: my daughter. My daughter is hanging out.
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Speaker 6: She's going out on sunset tonight and I and I asked.
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Speaker 6: I was like, hey, can I be a plus one
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Speaker 6: with you and your girl? Like nineteen years old? I
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Speaker 6: can get you in the club like whatever, we can
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Speaker 6: do all the other stuff. She's like, uh, I did
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Speaker 6: to be a negative. So because of that is me,
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Speaker 6: Anderson Cooper and whoever else is on TV.
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Speaker 7: So you're saying her friends are not wowed, but NFL.
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Speaker 8: I did not get I did not get it by
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Speaker 8: and in fact I got the the the pre New
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Speaker 8: Year's Eve dinner last night.
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Speaker 4: Okay, oh, let's go out. Let's go out on to Oh.
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Speaker 6: We're going out on to thirty If no New Year's
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Speaker 6: Eve is the thirty first, they didn't thirtyth that's what
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Speaker 6: we're doing.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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Speaker 3: It's that time for you, Bucky, the Jaguars or I
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Speaker 3: went away from the division title. We'll get to all
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Speaker 3: those playoff scenarios coming up, but let's take one last
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Speaker 3: look at last week. Though Jaguars trailed ten to nothing,
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Speaker 3: they had a couple of backup offensive linemen. They had
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Speaker 3: another guy who was sick of the offensive line. They
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Speaker 3: kept playing, found a way defense shut down the run game,
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Speaker 3: John and you know, gave this Jaguars offense an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to kind of get on its feet a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence and the Jags offense had two red zone
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Speaker 3: giveaways in the first half and then settled in. He
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Speaker 3: ran for a couple of touchdowns. Wasn't the cleanest game,
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Speaker 3: didn't matter. They found a way to get the result
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Speaker 3: last week.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, when you follow teams or like as I
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Speaker 7: followed a team, it's gotten good, which hasn't happened here
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Speaker 7: in a while. But you start to look for you know,
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Speaker 7: are they checking boxes that make you think they're good?
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Speaker 7: The run defense has been that all year. Trevor started
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Speaker 7: to ascend. He's like, okay, well there's quarterback in place now.
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Speaker 7: So many things and during this eight game winning or
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Speaker 7: seven game winning streak, I'm sorry, this was sort of
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Speaker 7: the first one that checked that box of can you
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Speaker 7: be down early on the road and calmly just sort
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Speaker 7: of show over the last what forty minutes of the game,
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Speaker 7: we're better. We're not gonna panic, We're going to keep
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Speaker 7: making plays and we're going to get this game. You
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Speaker 7: don't usually you do not build long winning streaks. If
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Speaker 7: they're all double digit games. You have to get through
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Speaker 7: a couple of these. They had got in close games before,
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Speaker 7: but they were sort of hectic, miracle.
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Speaker 5: Type games at Arizona and the.
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Speaker 7: Raiders, Yes, where the fourth quarter of that felt like chaos,
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Speaker 7: holding your breath in which every team you made the
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Speaker 7: play game was going to win this one. Bucky to
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Speaker 7: me was more of a you know the kind of
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Speaker 7: game that good teams New England, Kansas City. How many
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Speaker 7: times when they were really good those franchises did you
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Speaker 7: sort of turn on the score and say they're down
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Speaker 7: seven and say, wait, yeah, they're gonna win that one
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Speaker 7: because they just win. Those Jaguars one of those one
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Speaker 7: one of those types on Sunday, And I think that
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Speaker 7: means something for maturity.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, look at John.
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Speaker 6: I think it was one of the more impressive wins
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Speaker 6: that they've had doing the streak, not because of the
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Speaker 6: way they played, the way they executed. They didn't have
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Speaker 6: their fastball, but they found ways to win. The two
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Speaker 6: red zone turnovers really stopped them from being able to
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Speaker 6: put away an opponent early that they were clearly better than.
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Speaker 6: But playing from behind is a different type pressure, particularly
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Speaker 6: in a game where you're supposed to win. And the
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Speaker 6: thing that I wanted to see and I kind of
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Speaker 6: welcomed the challenge, was to see how would the sideline,
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Speaker 6: how would the team handle the adversity. And I could
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Speaker 6: tell you, man, at no point where the panic and
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Speaker 6: no point did they lose their composure or yet overly emotional.
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Speaker 6: They just kind of locked in and just did what
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Speaker 6: they needed to do to win the game, and even
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Speaker 6: going in at halftime and listening to the players interact
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Speaker 6: with each other, listening to the coaches, there was never
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Speaker 6: a sense of panic. If anything, there was a doubling
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Speaker 6: down on hey, guys, this is us. It has nothing
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Speaker 6: to do with them. If we eliminate the self inflicted errors,
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Speaker 6: they can't beat us. And what they did in the
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Speaker 6: second half, for the most part, they got rid of
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Speaker 6: those mistakes. They locked in, and they found a way
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Speaker 6: to win. That is exactly what you want to see.
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Speaker 6: But some would say was a very pressure rised environment
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Speaker 6: knowing that this team had to win because the Houston
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Speaker 6: Texans are nipping on the heels to win the division.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say that.
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Speaker 7: You said the word pressure twice in your analysis, and
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Speaker 7: that's exactly what it felt like watching the game. Once
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Speaker 7: once they caught it was three to nothing and their
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Speaker 7: tight end, Mallory's son caught the pass that the Jaguars
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Speaker 7: played great defense on balls.
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Speaker 2: In the air.
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Speaker 7: I'm writing down inc which I nc and completed my notes,
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Speaker 7: and I look up and he's caught the ball. And
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Speaker 7: having done this for a while, we've all seen games
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Speaker 7: and I looked over at Kai, who I sit next
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Speaker 7: to you, and said, is gonna be one of those?
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Speaker 7: I mean, all of a sudden you knew. I knew
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Speaker 7: on that play this was not going to be a
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Speaker 7: game where the Jaguars and kneeling at the end. You know,
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Speaker 7: you don't know, but it felt like it was going
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Speaker 7: to be that. They hadn't been in that situation. And
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Speaker 7: I think the way this team has handled the pressure,
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Speaker 7: and Bucky talked about it. They lost to Houston seven
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Speaker 7: games ago. Basically for the division, every game has been
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Speaker 7: a must win game since then.
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Speaker 2: Because Houston has lost either now.
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Speaker 7: It hasn't been completely must win because you sort of
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Speaker 7: felt once they got to that point like they were
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Speaker 7: going to get in the playoffs.
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Speaker 5: That took a little pressure off.
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Speaker 7: But if you want to win the division, if you
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Speaker 7: want your goals, all the home stuff. Again, following having
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Speaker 7: that accumulated pressure, with this singular pressure, this team's never
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Speaker 7: been here before, and yet they're handling these situations that
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Speaker 7: they don't really have experience in and that's unusual to me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the look very unusual.
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Speaker 6: And I will say this and John and JP, you
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Speaker 6: guys know because you talk to the players all the time.
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Speaker 6: It is the one time where I feel like the
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Speaker 6: players have completely drink all the kool aid that the
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Speaker 6: coaches have been spilling. The way that they talk it
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Speaker 6: is an extension of what Liam talks about when they
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Speaker 6: talk about process oriented as opposed to worried about outcomes.
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Speaker 6: Liam talked about how they never talked about winning the
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Speaker 6: division or playoffs or Super Bowl to any of those things.
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Speaker 6: They just talked about competing at the highest level that
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Speaker 6: they could and focus on the preparation, just live with
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Speaker 6: whatever the results are. You now hear players uttering those
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Speaker 6: same sentiments. Hey, we just got to lock in and
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Speaker 6: do the same things we do every week. Make sure
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Speaker 6: that our practices are good, make sure we know exactly
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Speaker 6: what we were able to do, and then on Sunday,
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Speaker 6: man just roll out the balls and let's see what
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Speaker 6: it looks like. To me, that's when you know this
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Speaker 6: team is really connected, and I honestly think that has
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Speaker 6: enabled them to play without feeling the weight of the
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Speaker 6: pressure that they should be feeling given the situation that
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Speaker 6: they're in as a twelve win team still needed to
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Speaker 6: declinch the division.
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Speaker 3: Jack Warris defense shut down Jonathan Taylor in the second half,
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Speaker 3: he had nineteen rushing yards. You know, Philip Rivers wasn't
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Speaker 3: gonna throw it more than twenty five yards down the field.
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Speaker 2: You can kind of feel that as the.
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Speaker 3: Game went on, so they could really key on the
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Speaker 3: run game and you know, be able to play on
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Speaker 3: the back end. And that's pretty much how it stood out.
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Speaker 3: And this Jags run defense does it again, Bucky. I
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Speaker 3: mean that they've proven it time and again that they
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Speaker 3: are the number one run defense in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a really good defense.
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Speaker 6: But I got to tell you, you know, and I know
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Speaker 6: Peyton Manning years ago said that halftime adjustments are overrated,
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Speaker 6: but I'm gonna say each and every week when I
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Speaker 6: watched his team, they do adapt and adjust to what
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Speaker 6: the opponent is doing. There have been so many times
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Speaker 6: where we've seen a team go up and down the
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Speaker 6: field in the first half and find that those things
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Speaker 6: that they were doing early no longer worked late in games.
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Speaker 6: Anthony Kempannelly has done a really good job of tweaking
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Speaker 6: the scheme, putting the guys in the right position to
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Speaker 6: make plays. And even though oh he is very fiery
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Speaker 6: and feisty in those things, there is a calm and
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Speaker 6: cool about him when it comes to calling the game.
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Speaker 6: That enables him to play without emotion, because you would
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Speaker 6: think someone that is firy like that they'd be very
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Speaker 6: emotional as a play caller. But I can tell you
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Speaker 6: he's not, because if he was, he wouldn't be able
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Speaker 6: to make the adjustments. He wouldn't be able to call
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Speaker 6: the game the way that he calls it, to take
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Speaker 6: in the information in terms of who's in the game,
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Speaker 6: what I'm playing with, what I'm lacking.
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Speaker 4: And still put this team in a position to win.
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Speaker 6: This unit is really really good, and I think what
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Speaker 6: a lot of the national people are missing is they
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Speaker 6: see the takeaways in those things. What they don't think
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Speaker 6: they see is the way this unit controls the game.
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Speaker 4: I can't say that they're a shut.
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Speaker 6: Him down defense, but man, they really neutralize you and
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Speaker 6: make you play left handed, which is what every defensive
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Speaker 6: coordinator wants the offense to have to do.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know when you play the Jaguars
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Speaker 7: that you might beating, you might get some yards, but
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Speaker 7: you're going to have to work for it. And I've
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Speaker 7: been saying all year as soon as third or fourth
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Speaker 7: week rolled around, and you started realizing, Oh, they're consistently
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Speaker 7: good against the run. I think that's been the pillar
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Speaker 7: that it's built on, because look, they're not a incredibly great.
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Speaker 5: Pass rushing team.
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Speaker 7: That is just like the Texans for example, Like when
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Speaker 7: you drop back against the Texans, you know they're hitting
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Speaker 7: you every play.
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Speaker 5: That's not really what this is.
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Speaker 7: But they get they stop the run and put themselves
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Speaker 7: in a lot of situations to get turnovers, a lot
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Speaker 7: of situations to be on third down, and then they
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Speaker 7: get enough pressure on third down where the quarterback can't
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Speaker 7: be comfortable. I don't know the quarterback's scared, but they're
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Speaker 7: worried and they're feeling it, and they don't quite have time,
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Speaker 7: you know, on four or.
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Speaker 5: Five consecutive throws to do it.
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Speaker 2: So it's uh.
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Speaker 7: I think it's been a remarkable job by this defensive
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Speaker 7: staff of getting the most out of what they have.
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Speaker 7: And I'm not saying as an insult. There's some talented
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Speaker 7: guys on that defense that allow them to play this way.
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Speaker 7: But it's not that you know, just peer your ears
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Speaker 7: back and scare quarterbacks defense. But they're a good defense
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Speaker 7: despite that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see what they can do this week against
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Speaker 3: cam Ward and the Titans. When we return, it's week eighteen.
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Speaker 3: The Jaguars will a win or a tie or a
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Speaker 3: Texans loss, and a tie would be the AFC South Champions.
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Speaker 3: We'll take a look at the Tennessee Titans, and if
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Speaker 3: for fans. It's huddled up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 9: Is this stopping the run? You know, playing armor in
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Speaker 9: the defense, stopping and run. I think that first drive
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Speaker 9: they kind of went all the way down the field
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Speaker 9: running all big. They came out big personnel, ran the ball,
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Speaker 9: So for us understanding that, so obviously you know we
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Speaker 9: stopped the run. You know, find opportunities to get up
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Speaker 9: for the passer. He's been doing a head with a
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Speaker 9: job as well, escaping and making big plays for the
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Speaker 9: making big places for that team. So again, this is
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Speaker 9: a good team and you know we're excited for the
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Speaker 9: challenge and just closing it the way we're supposed to.
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Speaker 3: Josh Heinz Allen in the locker room earlier today, the
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Speaker 3: full locker room footage and press conference for the quarterback
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Speaker 3: today Trevor Lawrence on Jaguars Dot Common Jaguars YouTube.
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Speaker 2: No Liam Cohen today.
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Speaker 3: He was under the weather earlier in the day, got
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Speaker 3: to about half of the practice or so, and he
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Speaker 3: is scheduled now to speak with the media at some
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Speaker 3: point tomorrow and we'll have that for you on Jaguars
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Speaker 3: Dot Common Jaguars YouTube as well. It's tu Ale up
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Speaker 3: with Bucky Brooks, JP Shadwick, John Ozer and Jacksonville. Bucky
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Speaker 3: Brooks out in Los Angeles. Well, that conversation there was
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Speaker 3: about the last time these two teams play, and the
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Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans went down the field and scored on their
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Speaker 3: first possession eleven plays seventy yards a field goal, led
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Speaker 3: the game three nothing, and the Jaguars scored twenty five
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Speaker 3: unanswered and won the football game. And Jags defense weathered
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Speaker 3: that early blow and then was able to handle it
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Speaker 3: in spite of thirteen Jaguars penalties in the game, the
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Speaker 3: most in a winning result for the Jaguars since nineteen
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Speaker 3: ninety six. It's been a while and now the Jags
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Speaker 3: have kind of taken over this series history against the Titans,
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Speaker 3: a twenty five to three final last time out. You
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Speaker 3: see the numbers there for Trevor Lawrence and for cam
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Speaker 3: Ward the Titans quarterback. It's just a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: But Bucky, how different is this Titans team now? It
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Speaker 3: seems like they're trending a little bit on the up
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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they've been able to have some success moving the
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Speaker 6: ball offensive league because Tony pol has been involved, They've
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Speaker 6: done a better job of committing and sticking with the
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Speaker 6: running game. That is allow cam Ward Or to play better,
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Speaker 6: and he has gotten better as he's gotten more reps.
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Speaker 6: This was a tough game the first time out, just
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Speaker 6: because it was disjointed that didn't have any rhythman to
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Speaker 6: talk about.
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Speaker 4: All the penalties thirteen penalties, and it.
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Speaker 6: Felt like the Jaguars were just kind of climbing up
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Speaker 6: hill the entire time, and even though you look at
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Speaker 6: the school they separated.
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Speaker 4: But it was one of.
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Speaker 6: Those performances where it was exhausting to watch this team
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Speaker 6: having to move away from a team that has struggled
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Speaker 6: for most of the season and continues to struggle. It
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Speaker 6: was just a hard earned victory. You hope that this
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Speaker 6: week we can play better and not having to kind
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Speaker 6: of feel.
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Speaker 4: Like the slog that it was. It just wasn't a
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Speaker 4: pretty performance at all.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the game for people.
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Speaker 7: Don't remember that Ross long sample Ross he was out
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Speaker 7: for the first half.
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Speaker 5: Von Hamilton was in, did a great job.
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Speaker 7: But that was a six to eight point game at
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Speaker 7: the time, and every time Devon snapped, you know you hey,
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Speaker 7: the Titans had gotten a break. They're back in it
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Speaker 7: at home. It was exactly what Bucky said. It was
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Speaker 7: an exhausting game to watch. I think that's the you know,
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Speaker 7: clearly the key late in the season with this game
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Speaker 7: is you're at home, you're playing well offensively, get this
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Speaker 7: thing to a double digit where Jeffrey Simmons doesn't scare you,
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Speaker 7: taking over the game. Uh, you know, getting ahead early
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Speaker 7: in this one. Again I said on the pregame last week,
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Speaker 7: you know, get ahead early, make them remember the Christmas
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Speaker 7: trees are up.
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Speaker 5: Get home.
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Speaker 7: Didn't quite do that, and that's tough to do in
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Speaker 7: second games against division teams. This, Uh, the Jersey to
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Speaker 7: start fast and get away from this team. You do
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Speaker 7: not want them thinking with ten minutes to go they
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Speaker 7: can win.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The flight to cancunas Tuesday for the Titans make them.
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Speaker 3: Remember that early in the game he mentioned Jeffrey Simmons,
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Speaker 3: Bucky ten sacks and all these quarterback hits, and there's
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Speaker 3: a problem on the interior certainly, and he likes to
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Speaker 3: get chippy and do things after the play and all
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Speaker 3: these things. How do you slow him down? And what
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Speaker 3: else is beyond him a priority against the Titans defense.
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Speaker 4: Well, it starts to him. It starts with him. This
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Speaker 4: is really good front man.
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Speaker 6: They play sound and solid on defense, and in spite
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Speaker 6: of their record, they can make it very, very difficult
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Speaker 6: for you to move the ball up and down to
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Speaker 6: the field.
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Speaker 4: For Jeffrey Simmons, you got to know who he is
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Speaker 4: at all times.
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Speaker 6: You can allow him to wreck the game from inside,
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Speaker 6: but they got other big boys on the interior that
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Speaker 6: can make it happen. And then arden Key's going to
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Speaker 6: play at a high level because that's arden Key playing
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Speaker 6: against his former team.
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Speaker 4: This game is going to be chippy because it's the
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Speaker 4: Titans and the Jacks.
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Speaker 6: And what we have to do is we can't kind
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Speaker 6: of fall into that making it personal.
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Speaker 4: We just got to beat them up professionally, get out
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Speaker 4: of there, win the game, win the division.
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Speaker 6: Have some T shirts and hats and then figure out
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Speaker 6: who we played next weekend.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's they're good largely because of him. Ten sacks
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Speaker 7: for a defensive tackle is good in any situation. It's
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Speaker 7: really good when you're never ahead, which they're not very
18:13
Speaker 7: You know, if you see a guy on a struggling
18:16
Speaker 7: team on the interior defensive front be able to get
18:19
Speaker 7: ten sacks and guess what, he's really good against the run.
18:26
Speaker 7: The Jaguars have struggled a little bit in trying to
18:28
Speaker 7: run on the interior. This is a matchup where you
18:33
Speaker 7: may have to show your running on the interior a
18:37
Speaker 7: little bit and then say, okay, we're going to figure
18:38
Speaker 7: out how to get this done without trying to do that,
18:42
Speaker 7: because that's tough. But look, it's people don't want to
18:47
Speaker 7: hear it because it's three and thirteen versus twelve and four.
18:51
Speaker 7: But this is absolutely a matchup where early, it's not
18:57
Speaker 7: the sec is. I like to say, you know, you're
18:59
Speaker 7: not going to see twenty one nothing with a bunch
19:03
Speaker 7: of easy touchdowns and a lot to celebrate and early.
19:05
Speaker 7: I don't think it's gonna take some high level of
19:08
Speaker 7: play for the Jabbers to pull away in this What Bucky.
19:11
Speaker 3: Do you have you seen the last little bit from
19:14
Speaker 3: Cam Mood quarterback for the Titans, is super talented.
19:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, super talented.
19:19
Speaker 6: He makes great plays outside of the structure of the offense.
19:23
Speaker 6: And he's not playing with a lot like playing with
19:25
Speaker 6: a bunch of young guys that are out there trying
19:27
Speaker 6: to figure it out together. But I will say, man,
19:29
Speaker 6: he's a competitor, he's resilient, he doesn't back down, and
19:34
Speaker 6: you know you can get a four days effort from
19:37
Speaker 6: him in terms of trying to play and compete in
19:39
Speaker 6: those things. But I think everyone has to come into
19:42
Speaker 6: this game with the right mindset, and I think that's
19:45
Speaker 6: not only players and coaches, but fans or whatever. You
19:48
Speaker 6: have to anticipate this being a hard fought, gritty, grimy
19:52
Speaker 6: game that will eventually pull away from the Titans in
19:56
Speaker 6: the end in the fourth quarter. But if we go
19:58
Speaker 6: in there thinking that we're gonna load them out and
20:01
Speaker 6: do those things, that's just not how this game is
20:04
Speaker 6: going to unfold, and it's going to be one of
20:06
Speaker 6: those things where our frustration can turn to anxiety and
20:09
Speaker 6: work against us. I think the team is really good
20:12
Speaker 6: at understanding how to methodically beat teams down. I think
20:16
Speaker 6: everyone in the building has to do that so we
20:17
Speaker 6: don't have this angst at kind of permeans throughout the crowd.
20:21
Speaker 10: Job.
20:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think last Sunday is a blueprint. I mean
20:25
Speaker 7: I would be worried about and it helps them that
20:29
Speaker 7: they got that done last week because there will be
20:32
Speaker 7: more anxiety this week.
20:33
Speaker 5: You know, you're at home and you feel, you.
20:35
Speaker 2: Know, uh the line, there's no more games, this is it.
20:39
Speaker 7: An immature team could start saying to have time I
20:42
Speaker 7: supposed to you know, it's supposed to be over with.
20:44
Speaker 7: You know, it's supposed to be done. But they could
20:46
Speaker 7: have felt that way last week too, So.
20:50
Speaker 5: Again, I thought.
20:51
Speaker 7: Last week was remarkable in that front. They had not
20:54
Speaker 7: been in a situation before and handled it without undue stretch.
21:00
Speaker 7: And I think some of the reason they could do
21:01
Speaker 7: that is because you weren't worried about Rivers going downfield.
21:04
Speaker 7: So defensively it was very I say easy, it's not easy,
21:09
Speaker 7: but very clear what you had to do to stop that.
21:11
Speaker 7: Team cam wore is more dangerous on that front. It
21:14
Speaker 7: probably can create a big play easier than the Colts could.
21:17
Speaker 7: There's a danger there, but look, the Jays are better
21:23
Speaker 7: if they play the way they've been playing the last
21:27
Speaker 7: eight weeks over sixty minutes, being better will allow them
21:33
Speaker 7: to eventually make the play that causes them to pull away.
21:38
Speaker 7: They just have to continue to believe in that, and
21:40
Speaker 7: belief in that has never been a problem for this team.
21:43
Speaker 3: And don't kick it to sham DK please do not
21:46
Speaker 3: no kick it like honestly, like what John is talking
21:49
Speaker 3: about is true.
21:49
Speaker 6: When you're playing a team that you're clearly better than,
21:52
Speaker 6: the thing that you can do is give them opportunities
21:54
Speaker 6: and people to talk about the debos. Don't beat ourselves.
21:58
Speaker 6: It's turnovers, big plays of life, penalties and then kicking
22:01
Speaker 6: game ers. The only reason that Indianapolis Coasts were close
22:04
Speaker 6: last week is because two red zone turnovers cost us
22:07
Speaker 6: points or whatever. If not, that game becomes a blowout
22:11
Speaker 6: in due time against the Titans, I think this has
22:14
Speaker 6: to be one all hands on deck, guys.
22:16
Speaker 4: We don't have to get outside of ourselves. Just don't
22:18
Speaker 4: mess this up.
22:19
Speaker 6: They cannot score enough points to beat us, so just
22:22
Speaker 6: don't give them any extra opportunities.
22:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, back in a moment, and the defensive coverage of
22:31
Speaker 3: the bad Yeah, we're gonna get to that when we
22:34
Speaker 3: come back. The defensive coverage of the game is the
22:37
Speaker 3: Jaguars face the Tennessee Titans in Week eighteen and trying
22:41
Speaker 3: to wrap up a division title. It' huddled up with
22:43
Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks.
22:49
Speaker 4: The group up fronts on an awesome job.
22:51
Speaker 10: And I think that's something where it seems a little
22:53
Speaker 10: bit counterintuitive, like scrambling. You see guys running a lot
22:56
Speaker 10: of times people think it's because there's not protection, but
22:58
Speaker 10: a lot of times the reason you're able to scramble
23:01
Speaker 10: and make these plays is because the protection is great
23:03
Speaker 10: and sometimes covers guys up downfield and you find lanes
23:07
Speaker 10: and they've done awesome job up front of really being
23:09
Speaker 10: sticky in their blocks. And I've been able to have
23:11
Speaker 10: escape routes, whether it's outside inside, and there's been a
23:14
Speaker 10: lot of lanes for me to be able to run
23:16
Speaker 10: and extend plays. So that's a big part of it.
23:18
Speaker 10: And then I think, just as I've gotten more and
23:20
Speaker 10: more comfortable in the system, progressing saying no to certain things,
23:24
Speaker 10: I'm able to get through my progressions and when there
23:25
Speaker 10: isn't something there, I'm not sitting back there in the
23:27
Speaker 10: pocket waiting forever on something that's not coming open.
23:32
Speaker 2: As quarterback. Of course.
23:33
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence earlier today full press conference at Jaguars dot
23:37
Speaker 3: com discussing his running ability, and he's closed again on
23:41
Speaker 3: four thousand yards again, two hundred and forty eight yards
23:44
Speaker 3: away passing from four thousand for the season and one
23:48
Speaker 3: rushing touchdown to get to ten this season. He would
23:51
Speaker 3: join Josh Allen in twenty twenty three of the Bills.
23:54
Speaker 3: Cam Newton twenty eleven of the Panthers is the only
23:57
Speaker 3: players in NFL history with four thousand or more passing
24:01
Speaker 3: yards and ten or more rushing scores in a season.
24:04
Speaker 2: If he can knock that out.
24:05
Speaker 7: This week, another sort of stat along with that, he
24:10
Speaker 7: has thirty nine rushes for first downs this year.
24:13
Speaker 5: Sry do that?
24:14
Speaker 7: And I mean, and you know me, JP, I talk
24:18
Speaker 7: about stats very rarely, but that stats pretty interesting. It's
24:23
Speaker 7: four You know, I'm not very good at math, but
24:26
Speaker 7: it's about three first downs a game.
24:30
Speaker 5: And doesn't it sort of.
24:32
Speaker 7: Feel that way, Bucky, like big first downs out of
24:35
Speaker 7: this guy at big moments?
24:38
Speaker 4: Wait?
24:39
Speaker 6: Hold on, Okay, so you said that thirty nine rushing
24:44
Speaker 6: first downs over a sixteen game period is about three.
24:49
Speaker 7: Ish to nine.
24:52
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, JP, all right, Florida is the Harvard
24:55
Speaker 6: at the south three.
24:58
Speaker 2: He's rounding way up. Apparently I was.
25:05
Speaker 6: Just I just got lost with the mouth prong because
25:08
Speaker 6: I was sitting there like, wait a minute, like we
25:10
Speaker 6: go three?
25:11
Speaker 7: Okay?
25:11
Speaker 4: All right, however it works, and it might it works
25:14
Speaker 4: three issues. The main point is Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence is
25:18
Speaker 4: definitely using his legs.
25:19
Speaker 6: It's been advantageous, uh for the offense when he does that.
25:23
Speaker 4: We've seen him become a threat.
25:24
Speaker 6: And it's funny that you mentioned Josh Allen and Cam
25:28
Speaker 6: Newton in that. And even though Trevor isn't necessarily running
25:32
Speaker 6: like that, I think the thing that all of those
25:34
Speaker 6: guys evolved to is they started to.
25:37
Speaker 4: Use their legs.
25:38
Speaker 6: And what we have these gotta have it situations, meaning
25:42
Speaker 6: critical situation to get a first down run in the
25:46
Speaker 6: red zone, particularly tight red zone run to score touchdowns.
25:50
Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence has done that. Eight rushing touchdowns is a
25:53
Speaker 6: very significant number. That means down in the red zone.
25:56
Speaker 6: From a defensive standpoint, you not only have to go
25:59
Speaker 6: out order for the weapons, but you need to count
26:01
Speaker 6: the number sixteen either on a design quarterback run an
26:05
Speaker 6: option play or an impromptu run changes the way people
26:08
Speaker 6: have to play.
26:10
Speaker 4: The thing that I.
26:11
Speaker 6: Love about what Trevor is doing, all of this speaks
26:15
Speaker 6: to his newfound confidence, his newfound trust in the system.
26:19
Speaker 6: He talked about being able to bail on plays because
26:21
Speaker 6: he knows that progression is not going to come open,
26:24
Speaker 6: so now he's doing it. And even the sacks that
26:27
Speaker 6: he's taking are closer to the line of scrimmage, so
26:31
Speaker 6: it's a one or two yard loss as opposed to
26:33
Speaker 6: a seven to ten yard loss, which gives the Jaguars
26:36
Speaker 6: an opportunity to get back on track on the next down.
26:39
Speaker 4: He's just playing really.
26:39
Speaker 6: Good football, high IQ football, and it's not all reflected
26:43
Speaker 6: in the numbers when it comes to completion percentage and
26:46
Speaker 6: passer rating. But man, you'd be hard pressed to find
26:48
Speaker 6: quarterbacks that are playing much better than him right now.
26:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, and some of.
26:55
Speaker 7: I like what Becky was talking about because it plays
26:57
Speaker 7: into what Trevor was talking about. All of it today
27:00
Speaker 7: point and he's right that he's running a.
27:02
Speaker 4: Lot, but.
27:06
Speaker 7: It's more because he's running on plays where the coverage
27:10
Speaker 7: shuts down the play as opposed to running out of
27:15
Speaker 7: desperation because there's pressure and think about how many times
27:18
Speaker 7: this season he's gotten productive gains when he's sort of
27:22
Speaker 7: shimmied up a hole and.
27:26
Speaker 5: His touchdown not only not on.
27:28
Speaker 7: The called quarterback draw the other day, but when he
27:33
Speaker 7: immediately saw one there and got through a hole in
27:36
Speaker 7: the line.
27:36
Speaker 5: It went like the blocking was bad.
27:39
Speaker 7: And I think the point that Bucky made about fewer
27:42
Speaker 7: sacks this year where it felt like he's, you know,
27:47
Speaker 7: falling backward nine yard lost risk of fumble, a lot
27:50
Speaker 7: of sacks where he has run forward and fallen two
27:53
Speaker 7: yards short. They're showing the play now, that was exactly
27:55
Speaker 7: what he's talking about, not a pant or what Trevor
27:59
Speaker 7: sawalking about, not a panicky situation when he's running, but
28:03
Speaker 7: running with purpose. And it has been a huge part
28:06
Speaker 7: of this offense this year. And I can do the
28:08
Speaker 7: math on that. That was six points zero plus six six.
28:15
Speaker 5: Love that, Bucky Chapel Hill love that.
28:18
Speaker 6: I mean, I like that.
28:19
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, this is the new math.
28:21
Speaker 6: Maybe I just learned math a little differently, but it's
28:23
Speaker 6: the new math that works for you, and it's working
28:25
Speaker 6: with Trevor.
28:26
Speaker 4: He's understanding it.
28:27
Speaker 6: And we've talked about this team and look I didn't
28:31
Speaker 6: know that we would get the twelve wins and maybe
28:33
Speaker 6: thirteen wins this year.
28:35
Speaker 4: But Liam and.
28:37
Speaker 6: Coaches have talked about before you learn how to win,
28:39
Speaker 6: you have to learn how to avoid losing, and you
28:42
Speaker 6: have to make these plays and you have to eliminate
28:44
Speaker 6: the negative plays. And Trevor has done that and he's
28:47
Speaker 6: done a better job of not compounding mistakes by turning
28:51
Speaker 6: the ball over.
28:52
Speaker 4: And when the Jaguars.
28:53
Speaker 6: Play like this, they have a very difficult team to
28:57
Speaker 6: beat because they don't give up big plays. Is on defense,
29:00
Speaker 6: they're keeping the ball in front, they're stopping the run,
29:03
Speaker 6: they're dictating to terms. They get big plays in the
29:05
Speaker 6: kicking game. And as long as we're not giving away
29:08
Speaker 6: extra possessions on offense, man, we're in every game, and
29:11
Speaker 6: we found a way to close games out in the
29:13
Speaker 6: Fourth War.
29:13
Speaker 7: It's sports writer math, JP. It doesn't have to be right,
29:16
Speaker 7: it just has to fit your story and sound right.
29:19
Speaker 4: I mean it.
29:19
Speaker 6: Didn't sound We call that out pretty quick. Ye old
29:22
Speaker 6: bucket fact checking. We're not fact checking like it's a
29:25
Speaker 6: new era now.
29:26
Speaker 5: Fact checking is for newspapers. We're on the internet.
29:28
Speaker 3: I saw Bucky's face when you did the math. I
29:30
Speaker 3: was like, oh okay, I was, I guess we're gonna
29:34
Speaker 3: go it.
29:34
Speaker 4: Just you're just new. It's just new to me, you know.
29:37
Speaker 4: That's fair.
29:38
Speaker 3: Just fent some coverage of the game presented by g
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29:44
Speaker 3: We take a look quickly at the Titans offense again.
29:47
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard had three straight games over one hundred yards
29:51
Speaker 3: in three straight stretch and then last week eighty five
29:54
Speaker 3: yards on eighteen carries against the Saints his last time out.
29:58
Speaker 3: Of course, the Jaguars has been great against every running
30:00
Speaker 3: back they face this year. In the passing game, cam
30:03
Speaker 3: Ward just over thirty one hundred yards passing fifteen touchdowns
30:08
Speaker 3: seven interceptions in his rookie season, and the leading receiver
30:13
Speaker 3: is still the tight end Jacob Konko fifty four catches
30:16
Speaker 3: and just under six hundred yards with two touchdown catches.
30:20
Speaker 3: DK the punt returner kick returner, has also contributed four
30:25
Speaker 3: touchdowns receiving this year. We're back in the moment. We'll
30:27
Speaker 3: take a look at the AFC playoff pitcher. The Jags
30:31
Speaker 3: will win or a tie are the AFC South champions
30:34
Speaker 3: and this is huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
30:40
Speaker 4: Sometimes.
30:41
Speaker 10: To be honest, getting on the ball in tempo has
30:42
Speaker 10: been some of our best possessions, especially early in the season.
30:45
Speaker 10: I think now we've settled into more of a rhythm
30:47
Speaker 10: offensively and we've been just better overall, but early in
30:50
Speaker 10: the season I remember that was something that we did.
30:52
Speaker 10: Really one of the best things we did was skill
30:54
Speaker 10: on the ball and go. And I think guys just
30:56
Speaker 10: going out playing not thinking gets the passing game clicking
30:59
Speaker 10: a little bit, and we've just been really efficient. You know,
31:02
Speaker 10: something I pride myself in is being able to get
31:05
Speaker 10: points in all those situations, and our offense takes a
31:07
Speaker 10: lot of pride in that. So that's taking care of
31:08
Speaker 10: the ball, but also staying effishing. I think as a
31:11
Speaker 10: quarterback is you want to take the big place when
31:13
Speaker 10: they're there, but if you can get the drive started
31:15
Speaker 10: a lot of times, that helps. Especially with the better
31:17
Speaker 10: field position. Now you get a couple first downs and
31:19
Speaker 10: with Cam as our kicker, I mean you can kick
31:22
Speaker 10: it from just about anywhere. So I think having that confidence,
31:25
Speaker 10: you played pretty free too, because you know you got
31:26
Speaker 10: a guy that can.
31:27
Speaker 4: Make it from anywhere.
31:28
Speaker 3: That's quarterback Trevor Lawrence earlier today discussing the two minute operation.
31:33
Speaker 3: They were in the red zone in two minutes before
31:35
Speaker 3: halftime last week before Lawrence threw an interception in the
31:39
Speaker 3: end zone. But his answer as to the rest of
31:42
Speaker 3: the season, it is huddle up with Bucky Brooks. Brought
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31:52
Speaker 3: and it's come down to Week eighteen. The Jaguars with
31:55
Speaker 3: the winner a tie would be the AFC South champions.
31:58
Speaker 3: They would also be the division champs. They Texans loss
32:01
Speaker 3: or tie against the Colts, but it's in the Jaguars hands, Bucky,
32:06
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you can ask for much
32:07
Speaker 3: more in terms of the division and the rest of
32:11
Speaker 3: the ACC.
32:11
Speaker 2: There's still the ACC. What did I say?
32:17
Speaker 4: That's okay? Like ACC? I dig it.
32:19
Speaker 3: The rest of the AFC, boy, the North Steelers, Bravens
32:25
Speaker 3: coming down to the wire as well. Chargers are resting
32:28
Speaker 3: everybody and well at least the quarterback and probably some
32:30
Speaker 3: other starters against the Broncos and then the Patriots play the.
32:35
Speaker 2: Dolphins in Foxborough.
32:37
Speaker 3: Is there any chance, Bucky that the Jaguars could be
32:41
Speaker 3: the number one seed considering what the Broncos and Patriots
32:44
Speaker 3: are facing.
32:46
Speaker 4: I mean there's always a chance. I mean, you never
32:47
Speaker 4: can discount that.
32:48
Speaker 6: I mean, the Chargers took a little bite out of
32:52
Speaker 6: that that matchup because the Charges had knocked off the
32:54
Speaker 6: Broncos early in the year, and now that they're resting everybody.
32:58
Speaker 4: It's a long shot to get up there.
32:59
Speaker 6: But you never, no, man, when you play the game,
33:01
Speaker 6: you just don't know how it's going to play out.
33:02
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, those teams certainly aren't doing us
33:05
Speaker 6: any favors.
33:06
Speaker 4: But guess what doesn't matter. Spot the ball, put it
33:09
Speaker 4: down whoever.
33:10
Speaker 6: We have to play in the postseason, preferably at home,
33:13
Speaker 6: but on the road. It doesn't really matter because this
33:15
Speaker 6: is the rare year where it is wide open, and
33:18
Speaker 6: whenever we started the tournament.
33:20
Speaker 4: You just need to be hot for three games.
33:22
Speaker 6: You have for three games you can find yourself in
33:24
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl to lead on stadium.
33:25
Speaker 7: The Dolphins are a little interesting because they are playing
33:30
Speaker 7: I get they're playing a backup quarterback, but they've showed
33:34
Speaker 7: a lot late in the season, so I don't know
33:37
Speaker 7: the dynamic there. I don't know if they're fighting for
33:39
Speaker 7: McDaniel's job. I don't really know how that building works, obviously,
33:45
Speaker 7: But they're playing a young quarterback who this game matters
33:49
Speaker 7: very much for his career, and they're playing a team.
33:54
Speaker 7: I mean, the Dolphins clearly have not mailed it in,
34:00
Speaker 7: so if they get up, they could decide they want
34:05
Speaker 7: to play hard in the second half, So you never know.
34:08
Speaker 10: That.
34:08
Speaker 7: Being said, the Patriots in recent weeks have done a
34:11
Speaker 7: very good job against teams they are to beat, and
34:13
Speaker 7: they're playing at home, so they're probably the three seed
34:17
Speaker 7: if they win. But again, there's really no reason they
34:22
Speaker 7: can't go win.
34:24
Speaker 5: If they get that seed. As Bucky said, true.
34:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'm trying to work against myself because normally
34:29
Speaker 6: I would be the guy that tries to play ahead
34:31
Speaker 6: and go through all the debates and which team should
34:35
Speaker 6: we play, which team is a better matchup, But taking
34:38
Speaker 6: a queue from this team, it doesn't really matter. They
34:40
Speaker 6: match up well against all of them. You look around
34:43
Speaker 6: and see whether it's the Chargers, the Buffoalopials, or even
34:46
Speaker 6: the Texans having to play them. I mean, like doesn't
34:49
Speaker 6: really matter. We can beat all those teams. But the
34:51
Speaker 6: playoffs are gonna be hard because you got to play
34:53
Speaker 6: your best ball and.
34:54
Speaker 4: You got to play your best ball against a really
34:56
Speaker 4: good team.
34:57
Speaker 6: That's what we have to gear up for, and that's
34:59
Speaker 6: what I'm looking forward to.
35:00
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be hard, JP, if it was easy,
35:03
Speaker 2: anybody could do it.
35:04
Speaker 5: It so hard that makes it great.
35:05
Speaker 2: That's true, so true.
35:08
Speaker 4: Like, but I'm not gonna lie. I wouldn't mind like
35:10
Speaker 4: being able to coast through.
35:11
Speaker 6: I wouldn't mind a little JMU action, you know, James
35:14
Speaker 6: Madison on their first line to kind of ease into
35:16
Speaker 6: the postseason before we have to play one.
35:18
Speaker 4: But doesn't look like that's gonna happen for us.
35:20
Speaker 3: It doesn't exist in the National Football League. That's the
35:23
Speaker 3: College Football Playoffs Week eighteen.
35:26
Speaker 2: First though, First things first, the Titans and the.
35:29
Speaker 3: Jaguars EverBank Stadium AFC South on the line.
35:33
Speaker 2: The stadium needs to be full.
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35:43
Speaker 3: We'll see you here at the Bank this Sunday. Appreciate
35:47
Speaker 3: it all right.
35:48
Speaker 4: But you're fine looking forward to it. Let's get it.
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Speaker 3: It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.