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Navigating the Unknown | The Doug Pederson Show · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to The Doug Peterson Show, brought you by Fresh
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  Speaker 1: from Florida. JP Shadwick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discuss
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  Speaker 1: the latest Jaguars news with the head coach. The Doug
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  Speaker 1: Peterson Show starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida from
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  Speaker 2: the Hundai Studios at the Miller Electric Center. JP Shadwick,
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Logoman and Head Coach Doug Peterson in studio with
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  Speaker 2: US Week sixteen. Hey, it's playoff time now, right. Both
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  Speaker 2: of these teams, the Jaguars and the Buccaneers, tied for
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  Speaker 2: first in the respective divisions, and it's playoff football on Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Week it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's playoff, playoff atmosphere, playoff football. You know, backs against
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  Speaker 4: the wall. You got to come out and play your
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  Speaker 4: best football. And you know, it's one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that we haven't done in the last say three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, we've got some things to correct. Guys
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  Speaker 4: have been Guys have been focused and still doing the
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  Speaker 4: right things and looking forward to going over to Tampa
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  Speaker 4: playing a.
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  Speaker 2: Game with the with the sky falling, how do you
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  Speaker 2: maintain that positivity?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it is. Right the sky is falling.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the positivity is the fact that we're still
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  Speaker 4: in first place, we're still fourth in the AFC and
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  Speaker 4: and everything is still right in front of us. You know,
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  Speaker 4: our goal when we started the season was to win
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  Speaker 4: the AFC South and and uh that goal has never
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  Speaker 4: changed and it hasn't changed.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, that's the positivity right there.
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  Speaker 4: And then at the same time, just continue to coach
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  Speaker 4: our players hard, continue to push them. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: we are getting some guys healthy this time of year,
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  Speaker 4: which is good. Uh, so you know, we need to
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  Speaker 4: be making our our move at this time.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, how do you keep a team a building from
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  Speaker 2: being tight in this type of moment when there is
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  Speaker 2: pressure and and everything going on to perform and play
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  Speaker 2: at a high level on all levels of the organization.
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  Speaker 2: How do you keep a team from tightening up this way?
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  Speaker 2: I think, and I truly believe it starts with me.
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  Speaker 2: If they if I'm tight, then they're gonna be tight.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm loose, They're going to be loose. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I I.
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  Speaker 4: Believe that they'll they'll feed off of that and to
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  Speaker 4: kind of feed off of that energy. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, they got to understand that that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's accountability in this business, and we got to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that we hold each other accountable, myself included. And
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  Speaker 4: and uh, but at the same time, let's go out
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  Speaker 4: have fun at practice. When it's time to work, it's
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  Speaker 4: time to work. Uh, let's go enjoy these moments. These
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  Speaker 4: are you don't get many of these. And and again
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  Speaker 4: we're uh, we're in the conversation at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the year, right for postseason and all that, and and
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  Speaker 4: that's that's what you want. And so that that gives
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  Speaker 4: you a little juice and motivation. Here, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: last month, here we.
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  Speaker 2: Are Thursday afternoon. The big topic is the unknown, which
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  Speaker 2: is your quarterback and the concussion protocol. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that you're somewhat limited what you can say and can't say.
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  Speaker 2: What's that like dealing with the concussion protocol for a
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's really not so much as it's just any
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  Speaker 4: player that goes into the protocol, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 4: talking health right there there, there's stages and steps that
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  Speaker 4: the player has to go through. Trey Herndon just went
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  Speaker 4: through it a couple weeks ago and and came out
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  Speaker 4: came out good, but you got to follow a certain
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  Speaker 4: regiment and steps and and and that you just don't
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  Speaker 4: rush him back to the practice field.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, c J.
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  Speaker 4: Bethard is obviously getting the bulk of the reps. He's
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  Speaker 4: done a great job, you know, in Trevor's absence this week,
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  Speaker 4: and and but yet Trevor's still a part.
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  Speaker 3: Of the meetings.
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  Speaker 4: He can do the meetings, he can he can be
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  Speaker 4: around the guys and just whatever he can tolerate. And
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  Speaker 4: so you know he's trending obviously in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: But again, you go in just like we did a
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  Speaker 4: few weeks ago, you know, with with CJ getting getting
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  Speaker 4: prepared and and and possibly playing in this.
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  Speaker 2: Game hypothetical here, let's say CJ has to play. What
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  Speaker 2: does CJ do best?
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  Speaker 4: CJ does a nice job of organizing and let's call
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  Speaker 4: it managing the offense.
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  Speaker 3: He knows the system, he knows where to go with
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  Speaker 3: the football.
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  Speaker 4: He he does a good job of utilizing everybody that
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  Speaker 4: at his disposal. Right, it's it's not uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: focusing on Calvin, focus in on Evan, which we will use.
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  Speaker 3: Them, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 4: And we got to use them but but he does
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  Speaker 4: a nice job of getting the ball into the hands
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  Speaker 4: of the open guy and manages the team that way.
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  Speaker 4: He's got an aggressive personality. He does have a big
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  Speaker 4: arm where he can he can push the ball down
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  Speaker 4: the field if need be. And and he's a good leader.
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  Speaker 4: Guys really do gravitate to him. He's smart, he's calm
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  Speaker 4: in the pocket, he's calm in the huddle, calm around
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  Speaker 4: the football team. And that's what you want out of
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  Speaker 4: your backup.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us, this is a Buccaneers defense.
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  Speaker 2: It has a lot of veteran players on it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: guys that have been around in that system for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 5: So what is it about that group?
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  Speaker 2: What stands out about the defense this year in Tampa?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think you look at him, you know they do.
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  Speaker 4: But they got a mixture of some youth in there too, right,
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  Speaker 4: They've drafted some young players, you know, particularly up front,
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  Speaker 4: and and they're all kind of you know, intermixed and
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  Speaker 4: intertwined in there, and they're playing. They're playing pretty good,
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  Speaker 4: especially this time of year. And and you know, Videvea
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  Speaker 4: is a big here's another big, physical guy in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Fortnite's gonna have his hands.
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  Speaker 4: Full all day and and we do the best we
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  Speaker 4: can to help help him, you know, with some double
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  Speaker 4: teams and combos and things of that nature. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's secondary is a veteran group. They're getting some guys
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  Speaker 4: healthy as well and going to be back. And and
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  Speaker 4: as you mentioned, they've been around Todd Bowles in his
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  Speaker 4: system now for a while, whether he's the head coach
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  Speaker 4: or the decordinator, so they they know, they know this
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  Speaker 4: scheme really well. You know, these two linebackers, threely three
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  Speaker 4: guys that can they can fly.
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  Speaker 3: They're big and long on the edge, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: and so it's another it's another.
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  Speaker 4: Challenge, you know, offensively for our for our guys up front,
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  Speaker 4: our backs, our tight ends to to compete against this group.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness, Vita Vea has to rotate. He doesn't play
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  Speaker 2: every down. But getting back to Todd Bowles, who you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned there have been there for quite some time as
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  Speaker 2: DC and then now the head head coach. He runs
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  Speaker 2: an aggressive defense, doesn't He loves to blitz owned dogs,
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  Speaker 2: man coverage, blitz is that's the challenge. Is that the
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  Speaker 2: challenging part of his defense.
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  Speaker 4: It is you know, we haven't seen as many pressures
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  Speaker 4: lately that we're gonna see Sunday. He's playing a lot
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  Speaker 4: more man coverage than he has in the past. But again,
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  Speaker 4: he's got a group that can do it. And and
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  Speaker 4: I remember when he was with you know, Bruce arians
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  Speaker 4: and in Arizona, and it was almost a blitz fest
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  Speaker 4: every every snap. And he's kind of brought that mindset
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  Speaker 4: and that mentality, and he's staying aggressive that way. And
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  Speaker 4: and and he knows too that his offense is playing
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  Speaker 4: better and uh, opportunity, you know, opportunistic defensively to create
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  Speaker 4: some takeaways, give the ball back to their offense. Baker's
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  Speaker 4: playing really well, taking care of the football NFC Player
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  Speaker 4: of the Week you know, last week for his performance
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  Speaker 4: and and and rightfully so, so you know you are
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing that aggressive mindset out of out of Todd
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  Speaker 4: and this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Vitave is the one guy that we mentioned standing out.
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  Speaker 2: He's three hundred and fifty pounds, hard to miss one's out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but Antoine Winfield in the back end might be one
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  Speaker 2: of the best safeties in the league. This is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that you guys, probably I'm sure are going to
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  Speaker 2: say Hey, where's he at?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly?
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  Speaker 4: This guy he's a ballhawk. He's punched the ball out,
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  Speaker 4: he's creating takeaways. He's a good blitzer, good tackler. He's
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  Speaker 4: all over the field. He's going to play the post safety.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be a box safety, he'll be a half field safety.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: And they're not afraid to use him, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: this defensive scheme. So, yeah, you got to know where thirty.
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  Speaker 3: One is and when when you have the football.
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  Speaker 4: And he's he's coming to tackle you, you better, you
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  Speaker 4: better take care of the football.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us Baker Mayfield last week
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  Speaker 2: was the third quarterback to deliver a perfect passer rating
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  Speaker 2: in a game this season in the NFL. So where's
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  Speaker 2: Baker right now? When you have a guy like Evans
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  Speaker 2: on the outside and then God went underneath, that's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good combination.
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  Speaker 5: Where are they offensively?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's just it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And Baker does a nice job of getting the ball
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  Speaker 4: to these guys, and their offensive coordinator canal Is, he's
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  Speaker 4: he's done a nice job of kind of orchestrating these
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  Speaker 4: guys getting open and you know, some of us to
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  Speaker 4: play action pass down the field. Evans is a big
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  Speaker 4: target obviously, and can run. Godwin is the quick you
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  Speaker 4: know underneath guy that put the ball in his hands,
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  Speaker 4: he can he can take at the distance. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's and Baker's always had an aggressive mindset, you know,
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  Speaker 4: wherever he's been, and and you know I've played and
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  Speaker 4: coached against him in the past. And big arm, you know,
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  Speaker 4: powerful arm could push it down the field. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, you know, we can also you know,
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  Speaker 4: make that one mistake and hopefully our guys are prepared
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  Speaker 4: to to you know, maybe get an interception or at
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  Speaker 4: least a takeaway.
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  Speaker 2: The core of their offense seems to run through Rashad White,
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  Speaker 2: running back, slash, you know, throwing the ball. He's he's
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a football player. The focus has got
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  Speaker 2: to be on him. I would imagine if you're a
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  Speaker 2: part of that defense, your defense.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred, you know, and we've always prided ourselves each week,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and stopping the run and try to minimize it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, minimize or at least eliminate explosives.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got to get better in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of those areas there. And and you know, again when
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  Speaker 3: he's rolling for a quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: When you run game and screen game and some of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff is going, it just helps you as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And Baker obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Is is using these guys you know, to his advantage.
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  Speaker 3: And he's another one you got to account for.
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting healthier on defense? You know, you've been
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  Speaker 2: a few games without a number of guys, Cisco, Tyson, Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: Chance to get them back? Maybe this week.
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  Speaker 4: We are good time to start getting some guys back,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Tyson and Cisco of practice this week and
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  Speaker 4: you know, done a nice job. We're going to continue
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  Speaker 4: to push them, you know, these next few days leading
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  Speaker 4: up to this football game. And and you know, the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing really I think with you know, Cisco has
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  Speaker 4: played recently, obviously, Tyson's been the one that's missed some time.
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  Speaker 4: So just getting him back out there and kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting his sea legs and back under him a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We'll take a little bit of time, but but it'll
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  Speaker 4: be good to get you know, number thirty two back
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  Speaker 4: on the field, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Coach final thought here and asking Travis, etc. And Junior
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room yesterday just about the big picture
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  Speaker 2: and playing better down the stretch, and he said, basically,
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  Speaker 2: we just don't need to talk about it. We got
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  Speaker 2: to be about it as a team. The playoff football's
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  Speaker 2: here now. Big game on the road this week, home
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  Speaker 2: next week, and then finishing Tennessee three games in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't been able to finish the job in a game,
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  Speaker 2: and the guys in the locker room feel that. But
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  Speaker 2: at some point you got to go be about it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a good comment.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great comment, and I'm glad the guys are
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  Speaker 4: seeing it that way, you know, and really feel it
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  Speaker 4: and understand it, because that's that's where we you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's where we need to be as a team. And again,
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  Speaker 4: it's not about putting pressure on yourselves or panicking or
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  Speaker 4: nothing like that. It's it's about going out and just
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  Speaker 4: doing your job and being about it right and and
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  Speaker 4: taking care of the football, you know, stopping the run
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  Speaker 4: on defense, you know, creating some takeaways on defense, you know,
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  Speaker 4: scoring touchdowns in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: All those types of things.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, those are things in our control and we
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  Speaker 4: just got to get back to doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Playing clean football.
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  Speaker 3: Exact clean, complimentary football.
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  Speaker 5: Coach.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the time is always good luck to you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, plenty more ahead. This is the Doug Peterson's
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  Speaker 2: on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, JP, Shadwick, Jeff Logman in the Hyundai studios
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  Speaker 2: of the Miller Electric Center. The Doug Peterson Show presented
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  Speaker 2: by Fresh from Florida Food tastes better when it's grown
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  Speaker 2: closer to home thanks to head coach Doug Peterson joining
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  Speaker 2: us in the opening segment each and every week and
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  Speaker 2: big week this week the Jaguars and the Buccaneers and
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  Speaker 2: interesting thoughts from the head coach on you know, trying
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  Speaker 2: to avoid tightness in a locker room in a building
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  Speaker 2: this time of year when things aren't going so well
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  Speaker 2: three weeks in a row. The division race is as
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  Speaker 2: tight as it can be. And what was his answer?
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  Speaker 2: It said, basically, you know, if I'm calm, they'll be cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's how Doug kind of rolls. Well, he's dead on
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  Speaker 2: the money, you know, and the coach is the one
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  Speaker 2: that gives the marching orders, that gives the vibe to
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  Speaker 2: the team. And if you had asked, I think most
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  Speaker 2: fans or Doug said, hey, look, you know, how would
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  Speaker 2: you like to be at the latter part of this
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  Speaker 2: season first place in your division, with the division completely
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  Speaker 2: in your control, with three games to go, would you
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  Speaker 2: take that? Yeah, I think a lot of people would.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but you know, when you lose three games,
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  Speaker 2: there's a tendency to think that things are bad and
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to get better. But hopefully this team,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe that they can will get better this
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  Speaker 2: week with whatever quarterback that they can play with. And
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  Speaker 2: I think CJ is more than capable. And this Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay football team has been on a roll, but they
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  Speaker 2: haven't really beat a top team. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: look at who they've been beating, Atlanta, Carolina and Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay on a three game winning streak, where's the superpower
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  Speaker 2: in that three Yeah? I mean green Bay was playing
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  Speaker 2: better or not like top of the NFC or anything. No,
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  Speaker 2: you go back and you look at who they San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco they lost, Indianapolis, Okay, Gardner minshew, they lost. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they beat Tennessee, which no surprise with Tennessee lost to
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  Speaker 2: the Texans, lost to the Bills, lost to the Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: Falcons because they play them obviously twice in their division,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, so Detroit Lions, they lost to them,
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  Speaker 2: they beat the Saints, they lost at the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's they haven't beat some high quality teams.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the Jaguars is gonna win this one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to lock at double lock at a
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  Speaker 2: triple locker, and I'm not gonna pull a JP shattericks.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that they will win this game. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: out of the lock business, as you should be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I deserve to be. Yeah, I'm not either way, I'm
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  Speaker 2: good with that. Fine, be out of that business. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so far out of that. By the way, did you
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  Speaker 2: go into my closet and steal my shirt? What's the deal? No,
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  Speaker 2: mine's smaller than yours.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not. We are we are aware of the
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  Speaker 5: same shirt.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that. How about I just figured that out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, did you go take the other shirt
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  Speaker 2: that I had? No?
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea where you live. Why would I
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  Speaker 5: do that? I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a great mind stick, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's it's a nice shirt.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yours is nice. So obviously, the quarterback is number one
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  Speaker 2: priority this week. Concussion protocol and the head coach you know,
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  Speaker 2: just can't really you know, divulge a bunch of the
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  Speaker 2: detail about that. But tomorrow is a big day. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Trevor's out there in any capacity, that's a good sign, right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean yes, but it still makes me nervous. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I still I feel confident that this team can win
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  Speaker 2: regardless of who is playing quarterbacks. I think whether it's
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  Speaker 2: CJ or Trevor, that they will play well against Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: But it just makes me nervous that if okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: say Trevor is cleared and he's going to play, he
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  Speaker 2: won't have had a lot of practice this week, and
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  Speaker 2: then will we not every time he gets hit be
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  Speaker 2: worried about him. Well yeah, and the long term.
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  Speaker 5: I think I do that anyway, But yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, but I mean I think you would be more
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: worried about it this week, I think than at any
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: other time. So so yeah, it's going to be a
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: little nerve wracking to find out exactly what's going to happen.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: But again, if CJ plays, I've got confidence in him.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: If Trevor plays, I have confidence in him. But I'm
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: gonna be nervous and I want him to protect the ball. Look,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: this football team this past game did not do did
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: not do some simple things that they need to do.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Protect the ball, eliminate penalties. They didn't check the boxes
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: in those two categories. Make some field goals. They missed
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: in that category at the end of the half. The
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: mismanagement of that situation was costly to where they got
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: zero points with a first down situation at the five
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: yard line. You got to get points in that situation.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Can't throw completion in bound to get tackled when you
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: don't have a time out. And however you want to
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: say it, they should they have clocked it, should they
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: have thrown to a different person. Both, okay, if however
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you look at it. But they've got to get points
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: out of that. And I think that in this game
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: against Tampa and with the way you're playing, points are
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: at a premium. You've got to make sure that you're
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: not hurting yourself in this ball game against Tampa Bay. Well,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: back in a moment, we'll figure out how a plan
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: to defend Baker Mayfield and Mike Evans for this Tampa
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Bay as not an easy plan to put together. You've
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: got just a few minutes to figure it out. Yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: how about that? Yeah, a little later, about fifteen minutes
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: or so, we'll hear from Rovin Ridley in the locker
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: room yesterday during his media availability time and see what
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: he has to say.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Going into Week sixteen.
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• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Doctor Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida Food
• 17:41
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• 17:43
  Speaker 5: J P. Shadwick, Jeff Logoman.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Or thanks to head Coach Doug Peterson in the opening
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: segment each and every Thursday, and this week it's Week sixteen.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: The Jaguars and the Buccaneers coming up Raymond James Stadium, Tampa.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Battle of teams that are tied for first place in
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: their respective divisions, the number fourth seed in each conference. Currently,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars and the Bucks should be a good one
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: and Baker Mayfield playing good football, the quarterback for the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Buccanteers coming off a perfect passer rating last week, former
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: number one overall pick of the Cleveland Browns back in
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, and it's amazing a first overall pick of
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the draft has already bounced around like he has. You know, Cleveland, Carolina,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the Rams, and now Tampa. It's just not very common
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: that you see a first overall pick in that amount
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: of time have that many stops. Yeah, this one, you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: maybe this one sticks a little bit.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know, it might.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Look he's having a good year. I mean, he's having
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a very good year. He's Look, they may have win
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a division title, which would be three years in a row,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I mean two years with Tom Brady and then all
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, replacing Tom Brady has no easy task.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: You think, that's like the last guy you would ever
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: want to follow up, Right, There's only been two places
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you can do that though. I mean, you know, think
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: about what happened in New England. Think about that situation.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Good luck.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not that's not a great situation to follow him.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: And he's arguably the greatest quarterback of all time in
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: my opinion, he is. I mean, some other people would
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: argue that other quarterbacks were greater, Peyton Manning, you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Joe Montana, whatever your opinion is, I mean, he's certainly
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: amongst the greatest. And you don't ever want to follow greatness.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: You know. The only guy that ever really did it,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: if you think about it, was Steve Young. Yeah, and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Steve Young followed greatness with his own greatness, which is amazing.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And Steve Young was so different than Joe Montana. Joe
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: different style, a very different style left.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Handed, that was part of the style.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: But the mobility of Steve Young was just impeccable. But
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: he kept that offense just rolling straight ahead. So has
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: some really good players. Was good to say. It wasn't
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: just that I'll go back because their glory days was
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: kind of the beginning of my career as a player
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League. And they had let's not
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: forget on the opposite side of Jerry Rice John Taylor,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: they had Tom Rathman, Oh Gosh Craig Roger Craig who
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: was he ran with such high knees uh and ran
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: angry the tight end. Gosh had the famous catch uh
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: russ uh Gosh, I'm john a blank on his name,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and then on defense they had that Haley for a while,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: they had Doleman, some of the guys left over from
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: other teams, and then Stubble fielding young on the inside.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I mean they just Ronnie Lot. I mean, they had
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: guys that were just fantastic, fantastic. I mean, who is
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the GM of that team? Who is the personnel guy?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: It's a great I don't yeah, I don't know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I was a little young, because you know, when you
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: think about the forty nine Ers, who gets all the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: credit it's Bill Walsh. But who assembled that talent for
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers in their heyday? It's a great
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: question because they I mean, right now, I'm trying to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: think of it. It's a perfect example of why the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: guy hasn't got enough credit because I can't put a
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: name on it. I mean, is it not one of
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the greatest collections of talent in the history of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: National Football League. You go back and you say that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, but their ability to collect talent back
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: in the seventies, it's just incredible. And nowadays, I mean,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: who assembles talent to that level now it's hard. Yeah,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So Bill Walsh was the actual GM in the late
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: seventies into the early eighties, and then John McVeigh took
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: over in eighty three, which is Sean mcvay's dad. Yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: so there go, and he was there through nineteen ninety apparently.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: All right, so they have it interesting. All right, We've
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: got plenty to get to. We're back in a moment.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Jaguars offense. Communication was the big word last week. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: think it still applies this week. Well, it always applies
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: every week, and I think that that word was used
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit too much on the offensive side
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: of them all. It definitely applies to some of the
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: mistakes that the defense made, particularly against Cleveland. At Cleveland
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: because of those three explosive plays. Okay, there were definitely
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: some communication issues all on them. Okay, with the linebackers
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: and then also the defensive backs of communication on the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: one to bell. All Right, we're back in a moment.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: We'll figure out the offensive side after this. It's The
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. The Doug
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida. Food Tastes Better
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: when It's grown Closer to Home, JP Shadwick, Jeff Flagman.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Glad you're with us on this Thursday ahead of the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Jaguars and the Buccaneers Week sixteen, or thanks to head
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: coach Doug Peterson. In the opening segment each and every week.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll hear from Calvin Ridley in the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: locker room this week and hear a portion of his
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: conversation with the media that he has every Wednesday. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about these receivers this week, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: two of the top three are injured right now. I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: mean Christian Kirk still in the list on the injured list,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: so a little bit longer for him. And then Zay
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Jones is not practiced this week coming off a hamstring injury.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: So Calvin Ridley step right up. I mean, this is
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it's he's kind of the old man in the wide
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: receiver room right now. Well, I consider Evan Ingram a
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: wide receiver even though he's listed as a tight ad.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: If you look at how defenses play him match up
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: against him, they match up against him like he's a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: wide receiver. They don't put linebackers on him, they play
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: him with defensive backs. And could that role change a
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: little bit this week, you know now that you get
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Britain strange back, maybe, but I really believe that Evan
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Ingram needs to become like he was a couple of
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, for two weeks in a row. He's got
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to become a big part of this offense, a really
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: big part of this offense. This week, I'm talking, you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: twelve targets, somewhere in the range of nine or ten catches,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and that's been about what his percentage has been recently.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: But I want to see more of an impact from
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a yardage standpoint with him, and I hope the coaches
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: can get a little creative on how they get him
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the ball with more yards per catch. All right, that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: all fine, But considering the quarterback situation right now, I
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: don't care who the quarterback is.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I still think you need to still get that even
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: with Bethrott.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, I still think you can get that with even
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: with bethret In and looking and the Bucks have been
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: without Devin White. There are other starting inside linebacker for
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the last three games. And there's a little bit of
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a I think a little bit of a rub there
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: between the head coach and him now about you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: is he hurt or is he not well? Remember the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: off season they wouldn't negotiate a new contract, so he
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: got all hot about that, and then it was a
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: first round pick in nineteen and so looking at the
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: contract year, yeah, this is the contract year for him.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So still no new contract in hand, and him and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Todd Bowles have not been very happy. It's not exactly
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a kumbay Al moment for them in this year's season.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But I believe that Evan if he if you put
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: him in against those linebackers, if they try to put
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the linebackers on him, I think he can he can
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: do some serious damage. Now, Antoine Winfield, one of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: best safeties in the league, is back there too. Could
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: they could they try to put Winfield against him? If so,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: that's a marquee matchup. That's like, literally, I can't wait
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to see that match up. That's one of those things
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: where after the game you want to watch the film
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to watch a premium matchup because that's a premium matchup
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League this week. I mean, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: would that be not an advantage for the Jaguars over all?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: The way Winfield plays everywhere on defense, if you want
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: him one on one with a tight end down the field,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: it's probably just hate get him out of the here,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: get him out of the box altogether. Right, Well, you
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: could if he's going to try to cover Evan because
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: he's sacking guys. He's got quarterback hits, he's got forced fumbles,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: he's got passes. It's like, come on, just run him
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: down the field. Maybe. Maybe, but that's the one part
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of that I want to see Evan do more of.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: We see Evan always on those little what I call
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: stick routes, you know where he's five six yards down
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the field, turning around, you know, catching the ball at seven.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, when's the last time we saw him running
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: down the seam and has like the one that Luke
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Farrell had. Luke Farrell had that one catch for twenty
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: eight yards. I'd love to see Evan end up getting
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: some of them, and he would help the offense in
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a big way, especially with the absence of Zay. But
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: here's the other guy who's got to step up. Elijah Cooks. Okay,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the rookie who has had a roster spot the entire year,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: undrafted guy from San Jose State. Okay, how many targets
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: does he have? Elijah Cooks for the Jacksonville Jaguars of
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three campaigns so far, Elijah Cooks has
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: a total of one one target.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was last week he dropped it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: One target. I mean, you got a roster spot, okay,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: and this is week what sixteen? Okay? What did Doug
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: say about this point of the season. Are you a
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: rookie or.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: You not a rookie?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Year?
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: You're not a rookie?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's Christmas Rooks. Let's go okay, let's go. Got
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: He's got. He was like the highest rated wide receiver
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: coming out of the preseason according to PFF, which many
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: people say PFF doesn't mean anything, it's preseason. You love
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: those guys, then I think there's some substance to what
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: they have the preseason ratings. Maybe not so much, but
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I want to see him do something. If you've got
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a roster spot and now here's an opportunity with the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: injuries that have happened, now it's time for you to
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: be big boy, okay and be a pro and make
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: some plays when given the opportunity. And I hope he
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: gets the opportunity. And one thing that he has that
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of the other receivers don't is that size
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and that that catch radius, and he did a really
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: good job in the preseason of catching the contested balls,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: so I hope he gets an opportunity this week. We'll
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: come back in a moment and here from Calvin Ridley,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Jaguars wide receiver, in the locker room yesterday ahead of
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: this Jaguars Buccaneers matchup.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: And this is the Doug Show on Jaguars Radio.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Listen show presented by Fresh from Florida continues. Food tastes
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: better when it's grown closer to home, JP, Shadwick, Jeff Logman.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Back in just a few moments.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley in the locker room this week and coming
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: off back to back outings where he's had twenty five
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: combined targets the last two games, nine catches for one
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: hundred and no No ninety two yards in that time frame.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Last touchdown was at Houston back on Thanksgiving weekend and
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: he has five touchdowns for the season. Trying to get
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: on track now with the final three games to go
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and with the other two primary options at wide receiver
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: injured at the moment, Calvin Ridley trying to take a
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: step up. He was in the locker room yesterday and
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: always speaks with the media on Wednesday. This is from
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the media portion where the scrum is around him getting
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: some thoughts from Calvin about going into week sixteen, and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: it is a tight division race all of a sudden, Yeah,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: it's pretty tight.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: We did we didn't make it too easy for ourselves
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: right now, but there shouldn't be no pressure. Just try
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: to get back to what we were doing before we lost
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: those three and get on the right foot and take
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: it from there, get into the to the race.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: This is not the first week where we've had backup
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks out there taking the first team reps. So how
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: has it been this week with CJ?
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: It's been good.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously we've been in this situation before. CJ
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: does a great job. He knows all the plays just
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: as good as Trevor. You know, we take it one
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: day at a time and whenever, you know, we know
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: what's going on, really we're gonna be ready. So we
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: just take it in my practice at the time, we
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: had a good day to day and it's we've been
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: moving forward to tomorrow.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: You know, some more changes last weeks.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Ay comes out with an injury and here's Jamal back
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: in the lineup. So I mean that what does that
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: do to the wide receiver room when you got some
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: some moving parts this late.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know this far in, it's hard to keep
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: your you know, stulf up. But we got a lot
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: of young guys in our room who are hungry and
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: they're ready to play. And they've been with us all
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: year in camp and we know they can play, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: you know they can step up. So you know, like
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: says next man up mentality, if they can't go or whoever,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: I know our young guys will be ready and ready
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: to make some plays.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Stadium is one thing, But what about the defense on
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the field between the lines and Tampa?
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty good defense. Uh they want to Super Bowl
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: with that defense, I think, right, yeah, something like that. Yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: good good defense. I just you know, good everything.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: I just want to keep it good.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Does It doesn't seem to matter to you who's across
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: on the other side, right Nah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: I just want to be respectful, you know, respect each
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: team that we're going against, really good team for real,
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: good corners, good d line, good linebackers, good safeties, pretty
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: much just a good core.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: And but I got a lot of.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Respect for us, and you know, and I know what
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: we should do and what we can do so, Like
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: I said, a good team, but we need to you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: we got to.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: I want to respect them, you know what I'm saying.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: That's fair.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And last one for me, I mean, there's a been
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of talk about the focus and the details,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: you know, pre snap penalties, a lot of things going on.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: How has that felt so far?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I mean it's one day on the field, but how
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: do you guys clean that up down the stretch?
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Communication?
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: You just you know, you start in the meetings by
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: telling each other that we got to communicate better. We
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: got to make sure before we leave the huddle that
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: everyone's on the same page. So you know, when we
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: and our walkthroughs and you know, when we're going through
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: our plays, we're just you know, overly communicating with each
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: other just you know, reminded each other that you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: it's on this snap.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: You know this is the play.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: You know this is you know, this is what's going
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: on in the in the game. So you know, there's
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: a lot of moving parts and you can you can
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: easily forget like you know, it seems like it's easy
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: to just run to the line and snap the ball.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: But we got a lot of thinking, a lot of
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  Speaker 6: looking around and you can easily forget you know what
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  Speaker 6: the account is. So you know, I mean, obviously we're
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  Speaker 6: professionals and we gotta be perfect, but you know, we're
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  Speaker 6: working on it, and that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 2: That is Calvin Ridley, the Jaguars wide receiver in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room yesterday, one hundred and nine targets for the year,
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  Speaker 2: same amount of targets as Evan Ingram, by the way,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and Ingram with eighty eight catches, Calvin with sixty catches
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  Speaker 2: on the year and Ridley with just a few more
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  Speaker 2: yards than Evan Ingram seven to eighty one for Ridley
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  Speaker 2: seven twenty nine for the tight end Evan Ingram on
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  Speaker 2: the season. The last three times out though, for Ridley
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  Speaker 2: thirty three targets, thirteen catches in one hundred and eighteen yards,
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  Speaker 2: and it could be his wide receiver room at least
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: as a fifth year player for the foreseeable future and
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: down the stretches these big important games, the Jags need
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  Speaker 2: Ridley to get back on track for sure. Fresh from
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  Speaker 2: like a Jag when you choose fresh from Florida Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Logovan returns after this. It's the Doug Peterson Show on
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Food tastes better when it's grown closer to home.
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  Speaker 5: That's a fact. J. P.
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  Speaker 2: Shadick, Jeff Logeman, The Doug Peterson Show rolling along. That
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  Speaker 2: was Calvin Ridley just moments ago from the locker room yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And we all kind of by now know the story
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  Speaker 2: of Ridley in his career up to now, and obviously
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: a big year for Calvin, and you know, coming back
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  Speaker 2: off the suspension and missing nearly two full seasons and
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: now he's played in every game.
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  Speaker 5: And there have been some good moments.
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  Speaker 2: There have been some moments you'd like to see some
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: better play and more con assistency out of him as well.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if he has a chance now the
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  Speaker 2: last three weeks to really step up and lead the
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: way with this wide receiver room, well he's got a
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: great opportunity because what is his contract situation. I mean
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: it's a free agent, right, and so here you go,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: there's three games left and opportunity to be the focal
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: point of an offense if you can find a way
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  Speaker 2: to continue to build the chemistry with your quarterback, whoever
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  Speaker 2: that is. And so for me, he needs to take
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: advantage of it. Now. There's a lot of speculation about
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley in the future with his football team, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I think all of that just needs to be put
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  Speaker 2: on hold. To all of that, I say, live in
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the moment, okay, because if all of a sudden, you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: have great moments this week, and then the next week,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and then the week after that, and then in the playoffs,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: all of that will take care of itself, whether if
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: you're looking at it from his perspective or you're looking
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: at it from the team perspective. Everybody needs to live
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: in the now. And hopefully this now moment that they
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: have is going to be really good for Calvin Ridley
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and Trevor Or cj whoever it may be, because with
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Christian Kirk out, with now Zay Jones out, this is
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: a tremendous opportunity for him to get more opportunities. We
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: talked a lot about the passing game, and obviously the
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation a little up in the air. Let's see
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: what Trevor Lawrence does, if anything, on Friday, and that
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: could be a step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 5: He has not practiced Wednesday or Thursday.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: CJ. Bethard so far has taken all those first team reps.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, running the football has not been the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: easiest as of late either, and that could help an offense.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: When they've played their best offensive football, they've run the
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: football and balanced things out, and they haven't really been
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: able to lean on that lately well. And then the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: other thing that the running game gives you that I
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: think this offense is missing a little bit. It gives
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you the play action, which a lot of the explosive
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: plays come off of play action. And when you have
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  Speaker 2: a solid, dependable ground game, people load the box. They
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  Speaker 2: deplete the back end, and then it gives you an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity at hitting bigger plays, and then teams aren't keeping
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  Speaker 2: their safeties back. The Jaguars haven't really seen any loaded
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  Speaker 2: boxes this year unless it's been a four minute situation
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  Speaker 2: where they've got a lead and they're trying to end
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  Speaker 2: up closing the game out, but it's by running it.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part throughout the ball games, teams
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  Speaker 2: are respecting the past, they know that this is a
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: very quarterback centric offense. I mean, if you look at
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the at the half, you know, looking at the numbers
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  Speaker 2: from this pass game, Trevor's numbers at the half were
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: actually pretty good sixteen of twenty three, even though he
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: had the fumble which didn't help much. And then also
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the situation that happened right there before the half where
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: they didn't get any points. But if you look at
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: the run pass ratio, Trevor had twenty three attempts in
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  Speaker 2: the first half and Etn had seven carries. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's a that's above a three to one race.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a lot, you know, so.
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  Speaker 2: You'd love to be able to have balance, and I
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: think right now they kind of realize that, Look, we
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: can't be a left they can't be anything like the
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Ravens where they're going to run the ball, run the ball,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: run the ball. But when you can run the ball,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: that gives you the opportunity at the explosive plays. And
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: right now, play action is I mean, you're running the ball,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: but you're not running the ball effectively to where you're
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: getting defenses to go, gosh, we really got to worry
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: about this. This rushing attack of the Jaguars. They're they're
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: not overly concerning themselves with it. Part of that. I mean,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: remember Travis Etn has been on the injury report the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: last few weeks with a chest issue. He's not on
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: there anymore. No, And I thought I thought in early
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: in the game this past week, I thought that they
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: ran the ball pretty effectively to start that game against
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens. I thought they came out of the right attitude.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: We're gonna run a little bit, We're gonna be physical.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna we're gonna be able to play
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit of our own physical aspect of running
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the game. And but it just didn't last. Didn't have
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: any footing to stay throughout the ball game. And that's
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: where this offense, I think wants to be at some point.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're gonna be able to get
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: there this year. That's that's tough to ask. They've had
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of moving parts with the offensive line. They
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: have had some performances upfront. That's not where it needs
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: to be. And then Etann, You're right, I thought he
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: ran the ball harder. He finished the plays early in
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: that game where the previous game Cincinnati Cleveland. He wasn't
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: finishing some of the plays, so that's encouraging. Darrens. Johnson's
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: been slowed a little bit too. I thought Bigsby was
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: gonna have a little bit bigger role this pass game,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: but the numbers just weren't there. From a carry standpoint,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: he only got to one carry for minus two yards.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Could he have a little bit of an impact this week?
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: You can get a backup running back a number of carries,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: but you know, here's the thing. You got to put
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: some plays together as an offense for the second running
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  Speaker 2: back or the third running back to get carries, to
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: stay on the field, sustaining some drives right and some success,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: run the ball, moving the chains and then stack and
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: plays back in a moment Our final thoughts ahead of
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  Speaker 2: this Jaguars Buccaneers match up, and Luke Combs is bringing
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  Speaker 2: two nights of the Growing Up and Getting Old Tour
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  Speaker 2: to EverBank Stadium May third and fourth, with different special
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  Speaker 2: guests each night. Tickets on sale now visit Everbankstadium dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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  Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida. Food
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  Speaker 2: tastes better when it's grown closer to home, and grab
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  Speaker 2: your hats and get ready for a good time. EverBank
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  Speaker 2: Stadium welcomes country music legend George Strait, Well, Chris Stapleton,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: and Little Big Town. May eleventh, twenty twenty four. That's
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  Speaker 2: a busy couple weeks night, by the way, count me
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  Speaker 2: in on that one. Tickets on sale now logs Lucky You.
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  Speaker 2: For more information, visit EverBank Stadium dot com. Chris Tableton
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: does a fantastic job with the Money Night Football, but
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: now doesn't he?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: And uh snoops on there too? Yeah, the other great job,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: it's cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And George Straight, I mean, come on, George Straight.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It's like how many? How many number one hit country songs?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Does George Strait have?
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  Speaker 5: A lot? Big number?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: It's a I want to say it's a record of
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: some kind, but it's just tremendous amount. How does he too?
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I bet you he's mid sixties.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I'm goan to guess you think, Yeah, I'm gonna guess
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I think he might be a What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think? I think?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: He'd probably be I'm gonna say sixty six. I'm gonna
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: say late sixties. Okay, maybe seventy. Let's see he is
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: seventy one. Yeah wow, not that yeah wow. But the
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: number of hit songs that he's had forty four, No, no,
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  Speaker 2: sixty yeah, it's crazy, sixty number one crazy. So that's
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: in May, coming up in like sixty ward it three days?
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  Speaker 5: What day is this? Thursday?
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: The game's Sunday? Yes, the Jaguars Thursday. Yeah. Hey, Christmas
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: is coming up too. The Jaguars get the Buccaneers on
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve down in Tampa Raymond James Stadium. We all
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: know the storylines by now. The quarterback field, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: really oh the grass is fantastic in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If I had this discussion with somebody the other day
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and we're talking about the best fields in the National
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Football League, and I would put Jacksonville's in the top five.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Tampa has historically been the last time we were there,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I would say that that one's the top five as well.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: You know, and typically the warmer climates have the great one.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: You know, the old Raymond James Stadium or whatever it
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: was called. What was it called oh, the old some
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: the sombrero. Yeah, I forget the name of it, but yeah,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: this is Raymond James. That one had this huge crown,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: so as a pass rusher felt like I was rushing
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: uphill because it literally had that much of a crown
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: on the field. This one has a right draining the
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: system and it's not crowned like that. It's an exceptional
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: playing surface in Tampa. The Chiefs ahead, George Thoma is
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: a long time groundskeeper and always does the Super Bowls
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: and stuff like he's been there, right. But the problem
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: with Kansas City is that it's in Kansas City. Okay,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: grass doesn't grow great in Kansas City and the fall.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Some grasses do grow better in colder weather, but it's
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: always going to be better in your warmer climates for
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the most part. But it's a good surface. It's a
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: good surface, okay, But you got to have a team
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: playing well on whatever surface is out there. But it's
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: a Tampa is a great playing surface, okay with the Jaguars,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: no matter the surface, need to play better football. Oh yes,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: that that's a that's a big yes, GP. You know,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: stop and stop the self inflicted wounds, you know, start
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: playing some clean football. You know, if you go back
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and you look at the last three games in the
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: losing streak, you can point to different moments to where
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: the team has made mistakes which are completely in their control,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: and that they don't make those mistakes or if they
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: may those plays, they win those three games. And that's
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the story of the league. If you
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: look at a Tom Coughlin coach team, Doug Peterson going
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: back to the Super Bowl year last year, as they
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: got on that run, they weren't beating themselves and historically
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: those other teams, as Doug Peterson, they didn't. They didn't
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: beat themselves. And if you take care of the football
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: and you don't make mistakes, you give yourself a great
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: chance of winning. And that's the margin for error in
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: this league is so small. It's much different than college
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: football because a lot of people try to try to
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: think of it as college football are similar to college football,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: and you can't look at it that way. You know,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: they're like, how in the world can they lose to
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: that team? Well, you know what, the guys are on
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: the other side of the ball. They get paid too, Okay,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: they get paid a lot of money.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: They do and it'll be this Sunday four or five.
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  Speaker 2: Cake, We're on the air on the network at three
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: o'clock with countdown to kickoff. Jeff Logoman and JP shatterck
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: are Thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaver. Thanks to you
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: for listening to the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars
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