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Jags Drive Time: Monday, October 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football bottles and every day.
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  Speaker 1: This is very low red for a town that prides
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  Speaker 1: itself when having such an NFL tradition. Jackuars, did you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Jack Warris, did you know? Jaguars drive Time? Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Sex steps that John oh says it and actually Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: drive Time starts right now. Yeah, it's just a belief
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  Speaker 1: in one another. You know, it's it's you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: the guys in that huddle. But as long as there's
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  Speaker 1: time in the clock, we're gonna keep Biden. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give it all, um, give all we got because we
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  Speaker 1: know we got next to you is and you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna let him down. So that's, you know, as long
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  Speaker 1: as there's any chance, that's what that's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars coming home from Carolina two and three, tough loss,
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  Speaker 1: but one thing for sure, they'd never gave up. There
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  Speaker 1: was never a thought in any of our minds that
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  Speaker 1: they weren't gonna win that game. Because they took the
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  Speaker 1: field on the final offensive drive, we all thought they
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  Speaker 1: got something they might be able to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: But need let's just say a loss in Carolina, lots
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, but definitely an exciting game, back and
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  Speaker 1: forth throughout the entire game. Well, here's the theme and
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  Speaker 1: one before you get the big things that we will
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  Speaker 1: talk about. There was no point from the sidelines yesterday
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  Speaker 1: where it felt like they were not in control, and
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  Speaker 1: they never let it was because when they were playing
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  Speaker 1: well and shutting the rundown, which I admit didn't happen often,
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  Speaker 1: but there were moments where they got them off the field,
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  Speaker 1: the offense felt like they could go right back down
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  Speaker 1: the field and score, and they did on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a good football game. I talked to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Jaguars fans after the game, and you
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  Speaker 1: know my family when I got home last night, they
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the game, was thrilling to watch to the end.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't like the outcome, but that's half the NFL
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  Speaker 1: every Sunday. This was a much different kind of loss
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  Speaker 1: than we saw in Jacksonville last year. Um, and then
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  Speaker 1: we saw for a number of years. It's a competitive loss. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be the old guy, get off my long show.
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  Speaker 1: Because after after talking on our rapid recap, I realized, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were all sort of positive and and and our
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  Speaker 1: positive right now, there are two and three, and there's
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  Speaker 1: some major issues obviously defensively, So this is not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: shine the car and look how kind of great we look.
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  Speaker 1: But in the long run, the positive is I think
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  Speaker 1: you found the guy who can play quarterback, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you've got an offense that can function in this
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  Speaker 1: league for the first time in a long time. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still two and three. You got like I
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  Speaker 1: think anybody's shining in the car. I think what we're
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  Speaker 1: pointing out is this is a different kind of This
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  Speaker 1: is a different team entirely. It's more talented the defense.
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  Speaker 1: I believe you can fix those issues. You've got a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that can make things happen. I've been on the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines now for a couple of years. I've never felt
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  Speaker 1: what I felt yesterday, which was a team that knew
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  Speaker 1: that they were capable of pointing right yeah and only
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  Speaker 1: covering this league for a few years. Um. In the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, it was the most well, it's NFL Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose. Sometimes loss in the locker room it
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  Speaker 1: felt like, I mean, people were upset, but there was
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  Speaker 1: still such belief and positivity in that locker room after
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  Speaker 1: the loss. It wasn't like a big time blowout loss
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  Speaker 1: like the last year. You had important guys saying that
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  Speaker 1: and meaning it, and yeah unique and get saying it
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  Speaker 1: and meaning it. You have Leonard Fournette saying it, meaning
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  Speaker 1: it that they believe that there is a lot to
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  Speaker 1: build on and it's it's a good thing, but you
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  Speaker 1: better start winning. Well. Look, I don't know if this
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  Speaker 1: team is good enough to be anything more than a
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  Speaker 1: win one lose one win to lose two kind of
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  Speaker 1: team this year. Um, but they're good enough to be
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  Speaker 1: in the game in the fourth quarter. And we all
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  Speaker 1: know that wasn't the case last year. The game was
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  Speaker 1: over because the offense couldn't score. They fell down seven
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  Speaker 1: nothing last year and in Houston done. You know it
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  Speaker 1: didn't take much. It's a completely different situation because you
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  Speaker 1: have an offense that's capable of moving down the field
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  Speaker 1: and giving you a chance. All right, let's get right
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  Speaker 1: into big things. Big thing one is the quarterback facing
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is top rated defense meants you through for
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  Speaker 1: a career high three hundred and seventy four yards, get
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  Speaker 1: a lot go wrong, but still put the Jags in
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  Speaker 1: a position to win at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy you feel like, you know, you always
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  Speaker 1: have a chance. You know, when he's in there, you
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's gonna go ahead and he's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: a play. And I think sometimes you see him running
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  Speaker 1: around and moving around and duck in and going. You know,
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  Speaker 1: eventually that stuff in histily, he's gonna catch up to
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  Speaker 1: you whether they can knock the ball out. Sometimes you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make play, sometimes you're not. Um, we just appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the you know, I mean, the guys out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving giving us everything he has, and that's all you
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  Speaker 1: can ask from it a player. Big thing too is
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  Speaker 1: the defense. All you have to do is look at
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's stats, know what type of day the defense,
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  Speaker 1: especially the linebackers had three touchdowns, two hundred thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: yards and the Panthers average ten point six yards per carry.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Jack takes the plame for this one. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of new career cluse So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really gonna put that on myself, Like told I
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  Speaker 1: can't put it on anybody with my slot left there,
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  Speaker 1: Like I gotta come back. I gotta be better, um,
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  Speaker 1: and I owe it to this team to be better.
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  Speaker 1: So UM, I'm really putting that on myself. UM. I
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  Speaker 1: don't blame anybody else for myself. And big thing three
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  Speaker 1: is the chart attack that comes tory between Minshew and
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  Speaker 1: d J Chark made for a tough day for Carolina Secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Eight catches, a hundred and sixty four yards and two
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns should have been three, but we'll get to that later.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Chark is not surprised about the season he's had
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  Speaker 1: so far. People will be surprised by you around the league.
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  Speaker 1: You're surprised at all about how well you've done the
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  Speaker 1: first five us of this season. Uh, you know, No,
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  Speaker 1: like he said, you know, I just come in and work.
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  Speaker 1: I got receivers around me that helps me every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I just think, uh Chris, I think Keith,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because he's because he's always there for me.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, these these guys never given up
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  Speaker 1: on me, even lashes, you know, and outside you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had they come as the guys in his
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  Speaker 1: locker room never doubted me. So I want to say surprised.
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  Speaker 1: That was Marquise Lee in the background, agreeing you want
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  Speaker 1: to terrify that was not Times Union Sports columns Jeane
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  Speaker 1: for Nett saying that you could see jeans a little
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  Speaker 1: head popping out. Let's go back, let's let's draw the
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  Speaker 1: curtain back on this. I'll tell you why I have
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  Speaker 1: an element of positive energy about this team, because the
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  Speaker 1: dirty little secret in the NFL is that it's not
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  Speaker 1: about Super Bowls. It's not about championships. It's about selling
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  Speaker 1: your tickets, it's about filling your building, it's about being
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  Speaker 1: a successful franchise. And what I saw yesterday was a
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  Speaker 1: reason for people to buy tickets and watch this. There
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  Speaker 1: are going to be an enormous number of Saints fans
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  Speaker 1: here on I don't well you know that or not,
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  Speaker 1: but the Saints fans are coming in droves. They marked
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  Speaker 1: this when the schedule came out as being one of
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  Speaker 1: their fan trip like the what's the group that does
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  Speaker 1: fan trips? Yeah, those guys, Uh, this is their version
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  Speaker 1: of that, and they're coming here just like Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: And all I heard, or all I saw yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: tickets being sold by Jaguars fans who want to come
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  Speaker 1: and watch this kid play. Not just this kid. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give him all the credit. He is exciting. D Jhark
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was damn near unstoppable, right, the guy. Every time
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to go to him, they went to him. Um.
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  Speaker 1: The more they do that, the better he gets. The
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  Speaker 1: harder that Leonard runs, and he ran hard again this week.
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  Speaker 1: You fix the issue at the left guard, which is
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  Speaker 1: now a major issue with this football team. The left
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  Speaker 1: guard is the highest paid player in the game, and
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, he stinks. Right, you don't get thrown back
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  Speaker 1: into your quarterback and set that up if you're not
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  Speaker 1: stinking badly. Um, but they have an exciting offense that
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  Speaker 1: people will want to see. That's a reason to be
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  Speaker 1: energetic and positive because it speaks to the success of
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  Speaker 1: the franchise as a whole. And that's really important right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, they have a major issue coming
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  Speaker 1: up in three or four weeks because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you set this kid Gardner manship. Yeah, we're we're
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  Speaker 1: at that point we can talk about that. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I believe you believe that he's got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: be really, really good in two or three years. He's good,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's really good. He's fun now. But he's
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  Speaker 1: just out there running around play. But if if you
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  Speaker 1: think this guy has it and can be your guy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you said him, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how he said the other guy either. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's as difficult situation as I've ever seen, but in
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  Speaker 1: a good way. I said, he's out there running around playing.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very smart kid. It's not like he's just
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  Speaker 1: chucking and ducket. You covered Bill Pollyan and and so
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  Speaker 1: you'll know this better than me. But Bill Polian said
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  Speaker 1: there were four phases to a quarterbacks development. One is
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  Speaker 1: just figuring out what's going on, and the second is
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  Speaker 1: figuring out what a defense is doing. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the third was figuring out how to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: what the defense is doing, and the fourth was actually
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  Speaker 1: dictating to the defense. Right, So when I say that
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  Speaker 1: he's out there just throwing the ball all around, he is,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean he's figured it all out yet.
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  Speaker 1: The more that he plays, the more he'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate a defense. Now that could come in in
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  Speaker 1: year two. Who mean, who knows, uh, he's so far
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  Speaker 1: advanced from any quarterback I've seen in a Jaguars uniform
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  Speaker 1: in his rookie season right Byron Left, which you know, Blake, Gabbert,
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  Speaker 1: Blake Bordles. I mean, none of them have been where
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  Speaker 1: he is in terms of intellectually understanding what they want
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  Speaker 1: to do. But where he gets to from here is
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  Speaker 1: anybody's guess. But it sure looks like it. Don't move out.
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  Speaker 1: You see flashes of really really smart football in the
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  Speaker 1: sense of he drifts a certain way. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: say he he'll never do this, but when he drifts,
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  Speaker 1: he never throws back across the field of the wrong
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  Speaker 1: receiver when he's at the line, and he gets the
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  Speaker 1: ball out quickly on screen passes, gives his receivers a
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  Speaker 1: chance for a success. He has an innate feel for
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  Speaker 1: this game of where the ball is supposed to go,
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  Speaker 1: where is there to be placed. The incomplete pass to
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook that almost set up like a five yard line,
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  Speaker 1: that was the right read, the right throw. He was
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  Speaker 1: drifting the right way at the time to give d
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  Speaker 1: d a chance. He makes so many good decisions, so
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  Speaker 1: far ahead instinctively of where most quarterbacks are. His age um. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you pull him out, So sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you just get gets lightning a bottle, get lucky, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you wanna call it. But the Jaguars invested eight million
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed dollars in NI fules and they were excited about
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  Speaker 1: what the Super Bowl m v P brought to the table,
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  Speaker 1: both on the field in the locker room. He has
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  Speaker 1: forty five million dollars in dead money against your cab.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a major decision. You put a plan
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  Speaker 1: in place to execute, you built around that. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: changing course, Maybe for all the right reasons. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: just the lightning in the bottle that happened right. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you just don't know. Do you think that the Carolina
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  Speaker 1: Panthers draft dude Christian McCaffrey and thought this guy's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be an MVP candidate in a short time. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: They probably thought he's gonna be a really good back
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna make his multidimension. He's gonna make our
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  Speaker 1: quarterback better. And now we saw yesterday the guy is
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal what he does with his hips and changing direction
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  Speaker 1: on a dime in the acceleration. Plus he's built like
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  Speaker 1: Maurice Jones, drew below the waist so he can put
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder down a drive to me, he's the best
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  Speaker 1: offensive player in the league. Not not a quarterback. Not right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just get lucky. Um finding a quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the sixth round it forces you to change your plan
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  Speaker 1: is nothing but lightning in a bottle. Yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: to tell the marketing people that we can't have Minta
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  Speaker 1: must passes. I mean, I know of a group that
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  Speaker 1: live in Ponavita. It's part of the Pontavita Rotary Club
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  Speaker 1: that I think to every year. And they texted me
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon and said, we're driving to Carolina. We
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  Speaker 1: want to get tickets. Where's the action at right? They
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: were they Saturday Friday night, they went to dinner. They
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: were all talking about Gardner Midshew, and then they all
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  Speaker 1: were at the game on Sunday. They just drove to
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  Speaker 1: Carolina to see this kid play. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm looking for action in Charlotte, you're the man
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling. Well, I can tell you where it is.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be there. I won't be there for me.
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  Speaker 1: It was a top golf with t i a bank
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  Speaker 1: but but there was a lot of Jaguars. It's a teal.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of fans there and this. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't drive up there because they wanted to see the
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  Speaker 1: defense play, and they didn't drive up there because they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to watch Christian McCaffrey. They drove up there for
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  Speaker 1: the mustache. You don't force magic, it just happen half
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  Speaker 1: and this kid's got it. So we addressed all the positives.
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  Speaker 1: We have to address the negative now, the run defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you knew that Christian McCaffrey was going to
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  Speaker 1: break one. We talked about it all week. We predicted
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  Speaker 1: an eighty four yard run like we saw, but we
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  Speaker 1: predict run. John and I were talking in zone Blitz.
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  Speaker 1: We thought, you know what, he's gonna get one. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get one breakout run, but then they'll collect and
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  Speaker 1: they'll be okay. Far from the case. Well, um, it
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  Speaker 1: was as bad a running defensive days you can have,
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  Speaker 1: and to me, it felt just like a two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six when Jaguars ran over the cold of that game. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The good news about that is it's the same issue
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  Speaker 1: as bothered the Colts. It's the same issue that often
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  Speaker 1: bothers these breakout games like this. When you play a
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  Speaker 1: gap control scheme, it's all based on the gaps being
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  Speaker 1: filled when you have one guy out of your gap
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  Speaker 1: on a play, all of a sudden, the guys in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary he's going all the way. Um, that happened
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  Speaker 1: way too often yesterday. Historically, it's very fixable. Historically, it's
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  Speaker 1: about getting in the gaps and getting simple and just
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  Speaker 1: making sure guys are doing their assignments. But this is
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  Speaker 1: not as good a defense right now as we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna be. The good news is offensively, you're
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  Speaker 1: making up for it. But if you even though it's
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  Speaker 1: a passing league, if you can't stop the run, you're dead.
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  Speaker 1: And they're not very good against the run right now
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  Speaker 1: is epically embarrassing. Todd Wash is just But even in
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  Speaker 1: their good games, been sort of a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a oh, we better watch this moment, right So I'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to that two thousand six game. The Jags
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  Speaker 1: ran for three seventy five yards that day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like wow. And at that point there were
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  Speaker 1: still three games remaining for them. They're eight and five
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  Speaker 1: and they had a chance. I thought, if they could
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  Speaker 1: run like that to make playoffs, right uh? And I thought, boy,
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  Speaker 1: the Colts are done. I mean, if you can't stop
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  Speaker 1: the run and Peyton will never have the football. How
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: are you gonna keep going? So, just out of curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: I went to Tony Dunge's press conferences right across the
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  Speaker 1: hole here, and I wanted to hear what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say. And he was so calm. It was striking
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  Speaker 1: how calm he was that day. He said, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a problem. We know how to fix this, and
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: people kept hammering him with questions, how are you going
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  Speaker 1: to fix this? This is terrible and he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a move here to move there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a guy getting into the right spot, having the right fit. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, this is crazy. They're essentially the same
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  Speaker 1: thing every with with out of out, and you know
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  Speaker 1: the numbers better than I that they fixed it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they allowed a hundred yards rushing by any
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  Speaker 1: opponent the rest of the way, any any individual rusher.
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  Speaker 1: And they won the Super Bowl. So you can fix
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  Speaker 1: this if everyone gets on the same page. A fair
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  Speaker 1: question is, can Miles Jack and Quincy Williams and Ronnie Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: who appeared to be the three guys who were most
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  Speaker 1: at fault for what happened yesterday, can they get on
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  Speaker 1: the same page legit question. I don't know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna try and find that out yet. If you're
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: at a position in this defense, Sunday happens, and it
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: happened over and over again. I was gonna say, have everything.
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  Speaker 1: They like it, but I have you have. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: other thing to point out in this take the yardage
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: off there just just for a moment, because the yardage
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  Speaker 1: equal points, but it was a points. The real damage
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  Speaker 1: was the three fumbles. You win that ball game. Give
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: him two five yards, you still win the ball game
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have those three fumbles. Because the first one,
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  Speaker 1: which was caused by uh Seth said his name Valve
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  Speaker 1: right the time, who inexplicably ran into Gardner Minshew. He's
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: got a better ball security obviously, but he ran into
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: him from behind as he was turning the throat to
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: hand off. Um. That turned into Christian McCaffrey's second touchdown, right,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and they're they're driving absolutely so when I was at
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: their own twenty yard so they were just getting going.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Then the next one was Andrew Norwell and who hit
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: him with impressive force. He and and that was was
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a Mario Addison, the pass rusher. Um it's no surprise.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell has been a terrific disappointment as a free agent.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: They expected him to come in and be a dominant player,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and yesterday he was thrown around like an undrafted rookie
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: free agent right highest paid player on the team. If
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: that doesn't change, they've got major problems. They may have
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to start talking about Ken will Richardson play left guard,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: because you have to talk about it, because in every
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: game this year, Norwell has missed a slide block protection
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: that's allowed somebody to come through. I know, I've watched him.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And then yesterday was just embarrassing, and it cost a
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: touchdown because Brian Burns picked up the fumble and took
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: it back for a touchdown. The third fumble was Gardner.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I thought, as a rookie, it's gonna happen. He was
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: running around trying to stay He looked like a rookie mistake,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and he keeps going and keeps going. He didn't have
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: great ball security there and the ball got slapped out
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: because he kept running around. And you admire, in fact,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you were kept alive in the game and in in
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the game last week because of his ability to scramble
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and improvise. You don't get his magic with that without stuff,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: But I think they're going to work with them on
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: You can still be magical with two hands on the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: ball without a doubt. However, big point for him right now.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Credit to the defense and no one's talking about this
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: this morning, because they stopped him on that drive on
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a big fourth and one. It was a huge opportunity
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, they didn't end up capitalizing because they
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: lost the ball game. But you still can win that
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: ball game if you don't fumble the ball give him
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: twenty five. You can still win if you don't fumble
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the ball three times. Well, guess what if you allow
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: ten yards to carry and you lose giveaway takeaway three,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: you're you're done in that sense. And if you always
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: forget when they talk about giveaway takeaway you're that close
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and you feel like you outplayed him and you still
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: lost that. You know, talent wise, what you're doing will work.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You gotta get a couple of guys playing better. Yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, if the linebackers don't fit against the run
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: better than they did yesterday, you're gonna lose a lot
• 18:39
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  Speaker 1: tight load, you know what I mean. We gotta come back. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta play better. We gotta start out fast and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that let's taking. Um, the teams
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  Speaker 1: are jumping out on us and then we're playing catch up.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So we just gotta stop doing that. Not a very
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: good day for that guy. Jaguars linebacker Miles Jack and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense is they look to bounce back. A
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  Speaker 1: big game coming up on Sunday. Alvin Kamara in the
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  Speaker 1: Saints coming to town, and let's get into some highlights
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  Speaker 1: and it's been the case now the past few weeks.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: The defense gives up a big play right to start
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the game, but the offense drives down the field and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: responds in a big way, burst out intent. I'll play
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: factor for net. Makes you looking deep Perk Sark, He's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: touchdown right away, boom boom. Well they established it earlier
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: three catches on that opening drive, and they go right
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to chart Um, who appears to be a guy with
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: his lenk. You know the other touchdown that he had Um, Well,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he had two more, but only one of them counted
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: was when he was falling backwards and lunging, you know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: reaching high into the air to make it happen. I mean,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: they really have something here, and he's their go to guy,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: their go to guy. I've got this is my hot
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: take later on, so I'll go light on chart Um.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I honestly, Brian, I sit in the press box and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I'm doing all all those little things I do in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the computer during the game. Yeah, it was coinable. I
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to process that's what they did in
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the first drive. Because it's been so long since I've
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: seen something like that. You're down seven nothing for the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: last eight years. With the exception of seen a few
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: games down seven, nothing that early. I'm sort of starting
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to write, well, here we go again, you know that,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you look up. In a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: minute and a half later, they've evened it up. And
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: not only have they evened it up, this feeling hit
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: me when I watched that drive of oh they've they're
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: doing this. Now they've got something meaning, it's not the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: first time this season they've done that. It's not the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: first time they've responded. It's not the first time they've
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: been down. And offensively they just looked deficient. They did
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: with the head to get back that. I mean, I'm
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: not breaking news here. That hasn't been the identity of
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: his team in forever. And all of a sudden you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: look and you think, okay, well, this is the kind
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of game they can play. They even against Kansas City
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: early remember with Folds, got back into it and then
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the wheels went off hard to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: recover their resilience whatever, but they can function offensively at
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: a level to now play these kind of games in
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the NFL. This is the new Jaguars um. If you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: can fix the problem on the left side, of the line.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: If you're throwing the ball like that to Chark, think
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: about how it loosens up the front for Leonard to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: be able to run. Because yesterday the Panthers were stacking
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the box. There was always that extra defender hanging right
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: around there looking for Leonard. After his big day in Denver,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: if you keep hitting DJ, Leonard will have better lanes
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to run, because he finished with a hundred and eight
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: yards and forty eight came on one. But man, was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he running really hard yesterday. And the way that he
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: was taking control with the offensive line on the sidelines,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: just listening to the way that he was working. Leonard
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: had never done that before. Leonard has never been that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: kind of a leader he was yesterday. You get the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: sense he feels, what's what's possible with DJ playing that, Well, there,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: they got something they're gonna back for net. We've talked
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: about it ever since he got here. As you started
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to look at him and what he means this team,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you figured out he's very capable of getting an extra yard.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: He's so strong, he's very capable of getting an extra
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: yard on every carry with just physical desire, uh your
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: scrappinus whatever. Over the course of nineteen carries, that's nineteen yards.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: That's turned that's turning second and seven in the second
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and six those kind of things. You're huge in the NFL.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It's what he's doing now and it's why he's so
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: important to the office. Okay, you talk about him fighting
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: for extra yards. I don't know if it's Keena McCardell
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: emphasizing this, but it's every single wide receiver. It seemed
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: like yesterday they're down, they got three guys on him,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and for example d D. Westbrook driving the three defenders
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: with him and not going down like that three or
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: four skill guys right now. I don't know how you
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: define this, but a Westbrook chart for net who are
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: football players, meaning they understand situations, they play hard during it,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: uh to tw years ago, It's like the only guy
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: on offense like that was Mark Eisley who he was
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: really into every play and understood situations. Uh. D D
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: definitely is. DD is a guy who you get the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: idea that if if if you paid him ten bucks,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he'd go play a football game because he loves being
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: out there playing. It's fun to watch. Ten bucks. Huh yeah,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: what a bargain. Maybe twenty. Fair enough, all right, we
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: have a few examples of this costly mistakes turning into
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: points for the Carolina Panthers. Up the middle ball comes
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: up Carolina into treating. They have it ready for the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: football as he's coming in. Gaffredy lined up in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: slot as a wide receiver at you back field next
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to Allan on the first compif teams Catherine the Texan,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I mean complete change the momentum. And like we said,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you can't win a ballgame when you just give away
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a football like that. It's funny, as you know, I'll
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: think about this during the game, and it's so hard
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to write this because it sounds so stupid. Need give
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: about two yards. As poorly as the defense played, you
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: still handed them fourteen point. So as poorly as the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: defense played, its still only gave up twenty, which in
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: this day and age in the NFL, you will take twenty.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Your offense gave you seven. It's enough to win. Again,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you don't have those two fumbles that directly or indirectly
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and you still win the game despite how
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: poorly you played, which is a reason why you look
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and go okay clean. A couple of things up. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: believe you can clean the defense out right. I'm not
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: sure about left guard, but I think you can clean
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that up. And my hot take kind of deals with
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: them cleaning it up. Alright, let's go post halftime. At
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: third quarter, Christian McCaffrey basically closing the door on the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: bus running back in the league right now, conversation, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: this is the moment when we all said, oh boy,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: as a starters, it off to McCaffrey. There he goes.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: It's so it's hard to describe this, but we came
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: out of the locker room yesterday and Pat Kavanaugh and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I were talking. It felt h the Jaguars just they
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: believed at that moment that they were a much, much
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: h better football team. They were they were going to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: take control of this thing without too much difficulty. And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: then that's the first offensive play for the Panthers and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Jaggars go three and out, and then that's the first
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: place like, oh right, oh, the offense got them back
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in at the defense couldn't stop the running game in
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the second half, So obviously the feeling that they were
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: better football team was wrong. Um, but at halftime, they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: really believed they were coming and and I just I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: we've talked about the Jaguars problems. CHRISTI McCaffrey is really special.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Well he is, And you also saw in that play
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: how one small thing make such a huge difference in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Miles Jack sort of inexplicably went to his
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: left to follow the tight end he was guarding. After
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the game. He was guarding one of the time it's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: on the place to make sure the quarter doesn't boot.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But he basically said, I blew it. You know, I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: have to be there if you stop that play is
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: one of the one of the things, again going back
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to that Cold Steam two thousand and six, you stop
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: little things. All of a sudden you're doing you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Bob Sanders came back and they started getting you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: four yard gains into six yard games, or what had
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: been fifteen yard games tournam into four. On that play,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: If Miles makes that play, it's a six yard game.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You're living to fight another day. Um again, very fixable,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: but at some point you have to stop talking about
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it being fixable and do it all right. So, even
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: with all of that that had gone wrong and everything
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that had happened, this play made you think momentum is back,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They're gonna win this game. Okay, free to the energy
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the car Canada. I mean, look, there were a couple
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of times just too wrong where Aprey Jones and Marcel
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Darius were absolutely unblockable. Not enough obviously. Um, but I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: see that plan ago. Okay, you've got guys up there
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that can really play. Now, let's see if you can
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: get them really playing that. That brought momentum back to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the offense and they did something with it, but obviously
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: not enough. It's interesting because from the press box, once
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Carolina got up twenty seventeen, what's McCaffrey's rund happened? I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: never really felt like the Jaguars were in control. So
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it's interesting that the sideline felt so different, and I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: got that vibe from talking to the players. Um, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: never got the feeling the way they were stopping the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: run that that they were going to get back into it,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and I was surprised when they got to just because
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: of the way the game was feeling. And again, it
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: just shows you that sometimes the vibe that you get
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: from upstairs is different than to get from the sidelines. Unfortunately,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the vibe that you had, well, it wasn't the vibe.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It was the mistakes. The mistakes cost them a couple
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of little mistakes here. Otherwise that team felt like they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: could just come. It felt like they were always on
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the verge of taking control and then right at that moment, mistake. Oh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: here we go again. And that brings us to the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: final play, the final drive. When Minsha took the field,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I thought it was exactly like last day. You left
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: too much time on the clock for Minshew to go
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: down and score. I was convinced you couldn't tell me otherwise,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Luke Keickley blueod for me. You should look right to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: kick quickly over there bitches struggling mans chased by otis
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and now flows. Can we get it to the end zone?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Can pick get up by Luke kick Carolina. Yeah, I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: mean they had where they get to extra plays, So
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they ended up with three shots into the end zone.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Um and with some taller receivers, with a guy like
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: DJ Chark and you see Kaling Cole out there, I
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: mean you'd like their chances to leap and make a play,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: especially with his accurate passer as um As Gardner Minshew is. However,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: there was pressure. You saw it there and it forced
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: him to run around and he threw the ball off
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: balance there at the end, and the hail Mary's just
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that for a reason, to hail Mary, please pray that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we can win. And right it's it's not meant necessarily
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to be a slam. Well, beyond all that, Gardner did
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a nice job on that drive, and the offensive nice
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: job of at least giving itself a chance. And uh again,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the ability for this team to create points quickly and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: get themselves back into situations they can win. In the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: last four weeks, they've been down by double digit at
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: some point in the game three times. They won one.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They probably should have won the Texans game, and they
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: gave themselves a chance to get back in this one. Um.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: They did it a few times in seventeen with defense.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: It was sort of remarkable that year they came back
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from double digits and they got some defensive touchdowns to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: do it. I don't remember a time where they've been
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: this consistent getting back in games offensively as they have
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the last three or four weeks. And at this point
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it's not a fluke, it's trend. So that final play,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: um lukeick Lee is asked in the locker room, why
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: didn't you try to intercept it and you know and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: make a play goes and I just wanted to go home.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: You know what us you don't need to make a play, Luke.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: That brings us to one more highlight that it is
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: not exactly in the game. Take this for what it's worth.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But Deshaun Watson on Instagram yesterday posted this picture of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey and Houston, where he's supposed to be getting
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: back treatment with his agent. Um watching football, hanging out.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: People erupted, as they do with anything Jalen Ramsey News updated.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: But like we said, he was in seeing a back
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: specialist in Houston. Deshaun Watson and him are good friends,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: but they should address it. They share with an agent
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: who's sitting there in the middle. Um, and make no
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: mistake about this is the agent sending a message. They
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: have no leverage. I think my opinion is is that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he made a bad business decision with the whole trade
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: request the week of the Houston laws. In the short week,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: this is all they can do. Um, people who are mad,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: here's here's my thought. You, Um, there's a moment where
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I mean he could play and should play somewhere in
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: between there right, Um, when he should be able to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: play and it's cleared medically to play. If he doesn't play,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: then you have a problem. If he's there visiting a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: back specialist today, I don't care who he has dinner with, right,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I don't care who hangs out with. Its none of
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: my business. Um. If if that is, you know, if
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: he's cleared medically to play, the better play or you've
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: got a problem the I think the agent is a problem. Anyway,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you can't do anything. It's a it's a bad look.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: But young players these days care less about bad looks
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: then they did back when I was Um, so look, um,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: if if if you're going to get mad at every
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: time Jalen Ramsey has a bad look in this situation,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna be mad a lot. Uh, I'm I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: guess I'm just tired of the store now. Yeah, you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people are tired of it. Um.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I don't thinks are going to trade him. I think
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: if if he wants to play football, it's going to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: be here and gets at some point it's gonna be
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: back in his court of do you want to play
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: football or not? I'm telling all I hear is they
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: are resolved that they are going to do it their
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: way and unless someone offers them a herschel Walker sort of,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: my goodness, you couldn't turn that down, which nobody's gonna do.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Its happened since you've had that kind of deal, so
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: it's not likely to happen in two thousand and nineteen.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: If that's not going to happen, then he's going to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: play here or he's going to watch football from the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: sidelines and tweet photos like that which are quiet desperate
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: plea for please pay attention to me. At some point. Well,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with Jalen Ramsey this week. A
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: big week with Michael Thomas, one of the best receivers
• 34:37
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  Speaker 1: I think DJ Start is on his way to being
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a number one receiver, right And I say on his
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: way because there's still some things in terms of um,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you know, consistently making the big third down, third and five,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: turn that into a seven yard game every time there's
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: still some veteran stuff that he's got to do over
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and over and over again. Before you look at him
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: and say, boy, he's really a one. Um, that's that's
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: minor nitpicking at this point. What I look at here
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: as a guy who's in five games this season now
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: consistently can do things. He consistently gets open on his
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: crossing routes, he consistently has a chance to make big play,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and he makes tough catches over and over and over again.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: His body control, his athleticism, his speed, uh, and the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: way he catches the ball. He catches the ball very cleanly.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: He reminds me a touch at times of Justin Blackman
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the way he catches it. And when I say that,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: that's the highest compliment in terms of the way Justin
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: caught the ball, his hands were really really good. Um.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: And there are times where DJ catches the ball in
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: traffic where he just snatches it like a big time receiver.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: What you have to catch the ball outside your body. Um,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: he's impressive. There are veteran things, and I know Keenan
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: is still working with them on that he's still got
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: to do, But boys, the potential there. I think he's
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: going to be the best receiver this team's had since
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith. High pointing the ball right where you go
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: up and take it away from He didn't do that. Um.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Last week in Denver, there was an opportunity to go
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to leap to grab and snatch the ball away. They
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: call it high pointing. Um, that's something. You know, he's tall.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: He's never really had to go way up because he's
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: got those long arms. His second touchdown, you know, he
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: reached up. You could see he need to high point.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: We's gotta learn to do that because there's gonna be
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: opportunities for him where he is caught between two defenders
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and he's got the long arms and the body to
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: go up and get it. The good news is there's
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: just so much room for him to get better, and
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: he's good right now. We all knew he had it,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: especially we're talking about it during training camp this year.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We knew he had the potential. It was when he
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was going to get there, and he said it throughout
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the entire year so far that he was so impressed
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: with how the locker room stayed patient with him. Yeah. Well, receivers,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you know, you often know they have it, but There's
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: often a lot of guys have it and never do it,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and they have the ability, they have everything that he's
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: got um and I credit Lockman for this. Jeff lockhaman
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: our analyst UM and former Jeguars defensive end, said all
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: last year, the way DJ worked on special teams, the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: way that as a guy who wasn't starting yet he
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: committed to that he got better. He worked really hard
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and cared about it. Jeff said all on that bodes
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: very well for how he's going to be as a
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: receiver in terms of his work. Ethic is desire to
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: get better, and he's shown it. It's a out of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I get mince hu mania, but to me, chart developing
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: is very close to being just as important as and
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and just as impressed because he did not show this
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: last year. You take, I'm absolutely confident in this. This
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: is not just a throw a dart against the board.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: But I believe that the Jaguars will hold Alvin Kamara
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to less than a hundred yards rushing this Sunday. They're
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: gonna sell out to stop the run. And I know
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: this is not a popular take this morning because a
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: lot of people are angry. They want someone to stand
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: in front of the firing squad for what happened yesterday.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: But Myles Jack and Ronnie Harrison are two and and
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and Quincy Williams, two people have been focused on him. Um,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: but they are talented players, and they're young, and they
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: obviously have a lot to learn. But I think that
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: selling out this week and Todd Wash will beat that drum.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara was held yesterday to sixty nine yards run
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: by Tampa, who's got a good defense. Um, I think
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: the Jag Warriors will sell out for the run, and
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I think that they will hold Alvin Camor to less
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: than a hundred yards. It doesn't mean they have fixed
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: all their problems, but it means they're capable of fixing it,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and it's a step in the process. No doubt, it's
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: going to be an emphasis this week, you hope, so
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: at least know that they will they will stop him
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: this week. You say they've got to sell out the run, Well,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, They've got to be focused
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: on that first. They also got to be focused on
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, one of the best receivers in the NFL,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and that brings me to mine. Go forward, assuming Jalen
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Ramsey does not play on Sunday. We have no idea
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: whether that's going to happen right now as of Monday morning.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: A J boy is going to stop Michael Thomas, one
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of the best receivers in the NFL for the Saints.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: And it's not going to be easy because yesterday he
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: had a hundred and eighty two yards and two touchdowns
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: in their win against the Bucks. But this is when
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: big time players shine against a good team at home.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: A J boy is long overdue for a big performance
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and what better than to go against one of the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: best receivers in the league. Here's the thing you know
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: about Thomas, He's gonna get his catches, right. Uh. If
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have that breakaway moment, if he doesn't have
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that huge catch for a touchdown, UM, then it still
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: can be a win. I wouldn't judge it on how
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: many yards or how many catches. Will know at the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: end of the game, whether if the jag Wars win
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: or lose. Um, whether a j did his job or not,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you just you'll feel it. But a guy like Michael
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Thomas is going to have his numbers no matter what
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you do. True true, as the young kids say, like John,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: all right, John, you're ready speaking of young kids. Yes,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: let's go to ozone. All right, let's go to Jeffrey
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Atlantic Beach. Brian's neck of the Woods got it tough loss.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: But the more I see of minto, the more I'm
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: convinced he's the long term answer at quarterback. As poorly
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: as the Jags played Sunday, I never felt that they
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: were out of the game because of him. I can't
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: say that for past seasons, you know, and uh, Brian,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: we touched on it throughout the show. It's everything, you know,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: all of the other little topics we talk about, from
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: fumbles to even run defense. It just shows you what
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: we talk about over and over and over game with
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: this league. If you've got a functioning quarterback, a guy
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: who you trust, a guy who can turn third night
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: and first down and keep it, it dwarfs everything else.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: And as poorly as a lot of things went, and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: as weird as a lot of things have gone this season,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the fact that you've got that is why I think
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: about this. The Jaguars record after five games last year
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: was three and two. They're two and three. Now. You
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: feel so much better about this season than you did
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: come out of Kansas City last year because the quarterback
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: can play. Um, I like ribs, really good ribs. Let's
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: just cut the show off there, thank you and good night.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And what Minshew feels like to me, it's, you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta taste of you gotta bite of
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the rib against pandasit and you thought, well, I mean,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: is there going to be another one of these? And
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: then you've got another bite of the rib against Houston?
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: And then what is there more? Right? You know, It's
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: just you keep fighting and chewing and swallowing and enjoying it,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and you keep thinking there's more to eat. There's more.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Minshew keeps offering you more. It's ribs tantalized me. I
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: can't wait to have another bite of that. And so
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I'm enjoying the fact that there appears to be another
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: bite this week. Let's see what there is. I have
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: never been I have never in my life than I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: am right now. I hope someone What do you want
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: me to say? I really like him. I really like him.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: He's really good. He's really good. I get to see
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: him again next week. It's really hopeful. How about just
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: a little color, a little flair all these starved till
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Thursday may not eat again, and you've never had really
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: good ribs. Let's go to Mark from Archer, Florida. John,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I think the Jags defense defense needs to stop walking
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: around acting like they're one of the best defenses in
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: the league. They're just too inconsistent in my opinion. They
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: may have talented players, but they're just playing horrible. Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: And um, I think it's more, you know, I don't
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: get the idea that the defensive players right now are
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: are are walking around acting like they're they worked in
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the locker room. I think this is more, um, your
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: anger because the inbox after loss is always an angry place. Um.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's more people around the team, such as us,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: believe that this thing was built around the defense, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: there's almost an assumption they'll be fine. So I think
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: this Houston and Titans game, they played lights out, play
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: great football. Um. But there's there's no question that still
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: as good as Minshew is and it's it's goods the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: offense is playing if if the defense just plays to
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: its level of the first five games, which has been
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: two really good games. One man, I consider Denver and
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Men because they got a lot of things done and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: two bad games. They can't be five hundred in terms
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: of good performances as a defense and make a playoffs.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: It's they have to play better defensively or they have
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to have a good defensive games more of than not
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: for this team to be a playoff team. This is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: not in e lite defense. But they're better than average
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: and and I think look, not having Jalen is a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: big part of it. I mean, he's your best defensive player.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: He's not on the field, he's not taking a quarter
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: or third or a half of the field away. At
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: times it hurts not to have him. But even without him,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: they're capable of so much more than this. I think
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: they can be a top ten to twelve in other
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: words of playoff caliber defense. If that's all they are,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: it appears minshow's good enough to make you, you know,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: take you the rest of the way, which you can't
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: be bad defensively because the kid is not meaning minshew.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: If you if you put him in ten shootouts there
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: are quarterbacks he you would say we're gonna win eight
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: to those. I don't think he's there yet. So the
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: defense has to be better. Let's be let's be clear
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: about this. Also, there's people celebrating Kyle Allen the quarterback
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: this morning in Carolina. Kyle Allen did not beat the Jaguars.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: McCaffrey beat the Jaguars, Yes, yeah, and had some relacuracy
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: issues that. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's that he is
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: not even on the same plane with Minshew in my opinion.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: But people, reality's you know, he's the first quarterback since
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: the win, his first four starts or whatever it is,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. The Jaguars problem was their inability to
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: stoff the run. That is what beat them up there yesterday,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: and that, as we've said, is fixable. Yeah, Kyle Allen
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: handed it off to McCaffrey the entire game, But who's
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: callen was unimpressive? Yes, all right, let's go to another
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: mark from Florida to wrap it up. Do you think
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Miles Jack is a major liability as an undersized linebacker,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: looks small, doesn't play smart, keeps making the same mistake. Well,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a liability, but he has to
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: play better than he has so far this season, and uh,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: it's disappointing that he hasn't. I wouldn't say it's his
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: size and would. I mean, he he's making the same mistake.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, and that's uh, that's what you can't have
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: when you paid this guy to be a defensive leader. Uh,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: he needs to be trending more towards Luke Keikley. That's
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: sort of the goal of that position in this league
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: right now. And he's not. And I think he'd be
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: the first one to tell you since he got paid,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: he hasn't played very well. Uh you see a flash
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: here and there of what he's capable of. He's not
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: undersized by the way, I mean, for for a linebacker
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: in the modern era. In this era, he is. He's
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a little big, Yeah, he's not. I mean yesterday he
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: looks smaller because Keikley is the model that you choose
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: allowed to be a middle linebacker. So you're not gonna
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: look like that guy. But he's fine in terms of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: side he's everything's they're capable wise, he's just not playing
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: all No, he's not. It's between the ears right now
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: and he knows that. He said that yesterday. He has
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the flashes though, I mean the fork down stop third
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: down when he was going to cover Christian McCaffrey like
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: a cornerback and broke up the past. There's flashes. Just
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: consider you gotta keep coaching him because you paid him.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: He's going to be here and in the middle. He
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: can't just flash because if he if if he plays poorly,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: it shows up every play. Um So was in on
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: almost every tackle between the tackles. It's got to be
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: fan base level player like they love Luke Keeckley. Yeah,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: good play, great player, model linebacker, that's for sure. Right
• 49:36
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  Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguar. A geep. When the jaguin you
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  Speaker 1: win this season, we're throwing it back to when it
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  Speaker 1: all began. Each time the Jags win, you can enjoy
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  Speaker 1: with some NFL headlines. The first one hot off the
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  Speaker 1: press well this morning, and this is Jake Gruden getting fired,
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  Speaker 1: which they apparently did before the sun was up in
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  Speaker 1: d C this morning. It's no surprise to anyone. It's
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  Speaker 1: been in the rumor mill. But I thought that the
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  Speaker 1: most telling part was last week when he quietly let
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  Speaker 1: it be known that he wouldn't have drafted the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins. To me, that was almost him giving up
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  Speaker 1: than hadn't with this guy anyway, and and wanting out
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. You grew up following that club. Bad
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  Speaker 1: situation there of them, Now, that's that's a proud franchise
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  Speaker 1: that used to filling their building into They're irrelevant in
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  Speaker 1: the picture right now. Well, it's been twenty seven years
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  Speaker 1: since they want to about eight and it's been fifteen
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  Speaker 1: since they want to playoff game. Yeah, it's been mediocre
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, and clearly the franchise believes that
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins is their way out. So the the interesting
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  Speaker 1: story nine is gonna be, now, will Bruce Allen hire
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  Speaker 1: the best coach or the best coach who tells him
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  Speaker 1: he will work and likes Dwayne Haskins. Well, right, because
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  Speaker 1: you've just hired I'll attracted the job. I guess how
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  Speaker 1: many people are gonna go, Well, I I don't like
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins. I don't want have to go yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: that's really the key. You're you're putting your name next
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  Speaker 1: to your quarterback, especially one that is rookie year. Absolutely. Um.
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  Speaker 1: In Atlanta, it's gotten really bad. They've lost three in
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  Speaker 1: a row. I mean, this is a team with Matt
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  Speaker 1: Ryan and Julio Jones. Calvin Ridley was a fourth last
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  Speaker 1: year for them. That's a defensive coach right there. And
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. Uh, he needed a vote of confidence last
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  Speaker 1: night from Arthur Blank, who said they're holding firm for
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  Speaker 1: an out. Um. They've got a couple of really challenging matchups.
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  Speaker 1: They go play the Cardinals, who you know, they beat
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals that it's not necessarily a gimme, um, But
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  Speaker 1: then they have the Rams and the Seahawks before the bye.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on on this one, um. If if they stumble
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  Speaker 1: next week in Arizona, Arthur Blank could be making a
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  Speaker 1: change with the n Quinn there and just a few
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  Speaker 1: short years ago that was a team that played in
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And that would be too. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: get that it might happen, and it's the texture of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL these days. Firing Quinn, to me, would be
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  Speaker 1: different than firing Gruden. With Gruden You've got a situation
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  Speaker 1: where it's clearly a a rebuild around a quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: if he has said he doesn't like this quarterback, then
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason to keep it. Uh, Quinn would fall
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  Speaker 1: into the category of really, what else are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: do at this point? That, I mean, why not wait
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  Speaker 1: to the n Seas and make a clean break it.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time, I don't get in mid season
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  Speaker 1: coach firing because it just it doesn't achieve, which is
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  Speaker 1: turning the thing around. It's sort of changed for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of chance age, which that's what happened final one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but you guys, I woke up this
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  Speaker 1: morning and saw the score of the Kansas City game,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, kudos to Indianapolis. I'm a believer now
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  Speaker 1: their offensive line dominated, but it hasn't helped. Mahomes injured
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  Speaker 1: his ankle here on opening Day, remember, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: playing through it and playing with it. He tweaked it
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  Speaker 1: again last night and it was noticeable. Um, if he's
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  Speaker 1: not a percent, if he's still struggling, and you Tyreek
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  Speaker 1: Hill isn't playing, they've got some injuries on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: They could be vulnerable in a couple of situations. Here
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  Speaker 1: they get the Patriots coming up not too long into
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  Speaker 1: the future, the Raiders are playing well. Um, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed for a moment like who can stop these guys?
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  Speaker 1: But if Mahomes is hobbled, his mobility is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to slide a little bit. He's not a
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  Speaker 1: running quarterback, but it's tough to get to him because
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  Speaker 1: he's so good in the pocket. Um watch that ankle injury.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be worth it's it. It will play a part
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  Speaker 1: I think in the power of the a And as
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  Speaker 1: impressive as the Colts were offensive line, it was their
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  Speaker 1: defense that was also impression. I mean they pressured him throughout.
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  Speaker 1: They took advantage of the fact that they had the
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  Speaker 1: bad ankle. Um, it's gonna be up and down with
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  Speaker 1: the Colts because the quarterback is not Andrew Luck, So
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  Speaker 1: they will I think lack those two or three unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: games that he gives you, which gets you maybe over
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  Speaker 1: the top from ten and six, twelve and four type guy. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But they're good enough that they're going to be around
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  Speaker 1: and they did it. Here was the really impressive for
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  Speaker 1: they did it without Darius Leonard who I think is
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  Speaker 1: maybe their best defensive player. He's had an actually starting staying.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they were down on defense and absolutely dominating Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: All sorts of issues in the secondary, and you think,
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna play Patrick Mahomes, you better have those
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  Speaker 1: ironed out. They didn't, and they still want so an
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  Speaker 1: impressive win and with that, the Jaguars are now one
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  Speaker 1: game behind in the a FC South, behind the Colts
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  Speaker 1: in Texans. I think all year long it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be are they one game behind or are they even right?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe there's yeah, I would say even I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that you're leaving with this team this year, but
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  Speaker 1: you you you're always going to be right around there
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  Speaker 1: with this quarterback, all right? And that is our show
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  Speaker 1: this Monday morning. Stay tuned. Jaguar Is Happy. Are coming
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  Speaker 1: up this afternoon and we'll be back Wednesday morning right
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  Speaker 1: here on Jack's Drive Time