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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 250 | Jaguars Face Another Challenging Defense in Week 3 vs. Patriots · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Good morning, happy Thursday, and welcome to Jags AM from
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Speaker 1: the Hyundai Studios inside the Miller Electric Center. I'm Brian Sexton.
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Speaker 1: John Ogier is alongside, as is coach Mark Duffner. Let's
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Speaker 1: get right into our big things. And the question this
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Speaker 1: week is, how will the Jaguars respond? First regular season
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Speaker 1: loss since last November. The fourth quarter didn't go very
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Speaker 1: well for this football team, and everyone wants to know
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Speaker 1: how it's going this week. Josh Hines-Allen in the locker
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Speaker 1: room yesterday offered this response.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, practice, we flew around today.
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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of competitive reps out there, offense
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Speaker 3: and defense. So I feel like we're responding well to
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Speaker 3: the adversity that we, you know, dealt with last week.
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Speaker 3: But we moved on and we're focused on the Patriots. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, every day is an important day for us.
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Speaker 3: And we're just looking forward to Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It's a week-to-week league, John.
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Speaker 1: The team's going to have to respond. And when you
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Speaker 1: look at the things that they have done offensively, coming
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Speaker 1: home would seem to be a great opportunity for them.
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Speaker 1: Last week, not so good, 13 points. But you look
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Speaker 1: at the previous 11 games, the Jaguars have played very well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they need to get back to what they were offensively.
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Speaker 4: The worrisome thing when I look at this game is
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Speaker 4: this is a tough team to get healthy against. I mean,
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Speaker 4: the Patriots play really good defense. They're really smart. They're
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Speaker 4: the kind of team that makes you play clunky. That
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Speaker 4: was sort of the Jaguars' issue last week. So there
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Speaker 4: are some teams in this league that if you play well,
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Speaker 4: you're going to beat them. Patriots, you can play well
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Speaker 4: and not beat them. So it's a great test, Duff.
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Speaker 4: It's a really, really good team that figures out a
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Speaker 4: way to win. And this Jaguars offense that has been
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Speaker 4: so smooth, don't be surprised if it's not smooth, but
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Speaker 4: they need big plays to win this game.
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Speaker 5: There's no question about that. And this defense, as you
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Speaker 5: just talked about right now, is hitting its stride. I mean,
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Speaker 5: they manhandled Pittsburgh in the game they played recently against them.
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Speaker 5: They're a team right now that pressures like crazy. The
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Speaker 5: defense will operate with three- and four- and five-man rush,
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Speaker 5: fire zones. So they try to make life uncomfortable for
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Speaker 5: the quarterback, and they've done a good job of that.
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Speaker 5: Allowed really one touchdown in the two ballgames so far.
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Speaker 5: So a very aggressive group that will be well coached.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars coming home in the offense under the quarterback, especially
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Speaker 1: the last four regular season games, has been very productive
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Speaker 1: here at Everbank Stadium. He has 15 touchdowns, 14 of
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Speaker 1: those passing touchdowns. No interceptions, and his passer rating, 134.6,
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Speaker 1: so perhaps the Jaguars' offense can get back on track,
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Speaker 1: and the Jaguars offer a strong response to last week's defeat.
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Speaker 1: In Denver, our second big thing is to.
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Speaker 5: Spread the wealth.
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Speaker 1: It's been well chronicled around here this week that Jacoby
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Speaker 1: Myers has just three targets, and Brenton Strange has just five,
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Speaker 1: while Brian Thomas, who had a couple of big drops
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Speaker 1: last week, has had eight. Perhaps it's time to make
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Speaker 1: sure that some of the other guys get involved in
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Speaker 1: the offense. The quarterback responded this way.
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Speaker 6: They're a huge part of our offense, so that's going
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Speaker 6: to be obviously important, and there's stuff everywhere. it's not
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Speaker 6: like we've been avoiding throwing the ball on the plan.
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Speaker 6: I felt like the last two weeks we've had stuff
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Speaker 6: in the plan for them. Um, so, you know, we
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Speaker 6: got a game to play Sunday and I know I'm
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Speaker 6: not going to, I'm not going to lay off the
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Speaker 6: game plan up here in front of everybody else, but, uh, it's,
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Speaker 6: it's important. And those guys are great players. And I
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Speaker 6: think that they both, I know they both understand the
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Speaker 6: role they have in our offense and.
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Speaker 1: Coach, the ball's going to go where the ball's going
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Speaker 1: to go. I mean, defenses can take guys away.
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Speaker 2: But we saw last week.
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Speaker 1: That the Broncos made a special effort to get Jalen
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Speaker 1: Waddell involved, and he provided 138 yards. You see the
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Speaker 1: targets there. How do you think the Jaguars respond this week?
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Speaker 1: Can they get Jacoby Myers involved, regardless of what the
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Speaker 1: New England Patriots do defensively?
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Speaker 5: I think absolutely. You know, really in the first game
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Speaker 5: against Cleveland, nine different people got the ball. All right,
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Speaker 5: nine different personnel guys got the football. So he distributed
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Speaker 5: the ball well. Take what the defense gives you. Not
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Speaker 5: force the ball to a certain area or a person
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Speaker 5: as far as that's concerned. And I believe, as you
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Speaker 5: mentioned a minute ago, Denver certainly made it a primary
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Speaker 5: task to get the ball to Waddle. Well, that can
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Speaker 5: help you, and sometimes it'll hurt you. I believe distribution
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Speaker 5: is right. Take what the defense gives you. We've got
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Speaker 5: the weapons. Make them count.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this can be a tough thing to
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Speaker 4: analyze sometimes because when you see a target, or when
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Speaker 4: you see a guy who's only been targeted twice, you think, well,
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Speaker 4: they're not throwing to him. Well, sometimes plays are designed
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Speaker 4: to go to him, and then once the play starts,
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Speaker 4: something happens and it's not there. So nobody's trying to
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Speaker 4: freeze Strange and Myers out, but it can be tough
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Speaker 4: because Trevor, as Duff sort of mentioned, Is that his
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Speaker 4: best when he's distributing organically and not really worried about
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Speaker 4: feeding one guy? I'm not sure how you solve it
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Speaker 4: because I do think that's where Trevor's best. I think
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Speaker 4: over the course of the next three or four weeks,
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Speaker 4: you will see these numbers sort of balance out as
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Speaker 4: it happens within the course of a few games. Two games,
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Speaker 4: small sample size, but there is an element where you
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Speaker 4: want to get strange the ball because it that physicality
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Speaker 4: in this sort of game.
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Speaker 1: Well, I suppose one of the ways, John, to get
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Speaker 1: the guy you want involved is to get other guys
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Speaker 1: involved and make the defense rotate over there.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps if Brian Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 1: Catches some of those big balls last week, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden New England has to address him and not say, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's just take Jacoby Myers out of the deal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think with Brian Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 4: it's incumbent on him to make those plays to make
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Speaker 4: sure defenses are still paying attention to him. As long
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Speaker 4: as he is drawing that sort of coverage, he's an
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Speaker 4: asset to this offense, even if he has a drop
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Speaker 4: or two. Will defenses continue to honor him? I think
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Speaker 4: that's the question going forward.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap up big things with time to spare.
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Speaker 1: Bo Nix had plenty of it last week.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't sacked.
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Speaker 1: He was barely pressured at all. If the Jaguars can't
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Speaker 1: get to Drake May, they're going to have problems because
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Speaker 1: May is a very efficient passer and there are plenty
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Speaker 1: of weapons for him to distribute the ball to.
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Speaker 2: So, what does the head.
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Speaker 1: Coach think about the Jaguars' pressure package heading into this
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Speaker 1: weekend's game?
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Speaker 7: You're constantly evaluating your matchups, where you feel good, when
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Speaker 7: you need to. We brought some last week. They identified
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Speaker 7: them and kind of flipped the protection on us a
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Speaker 7: few times. you know, when you're on the road in
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Speaker 7: that atmosphere, they got the clock on their side and
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Speaker 7: they got the communication on their side and they freeze it,
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Speaker 7: see it, flip it, and now they're picking you up
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Speaker 7: and now you're susceptible on the back end.
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Speaker 1: John, this isn't totally dissimilar from the wide receiver conversation.
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Speaker 1: If the Jaguars could get some pressure up the middle
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Speaker 1: and perhaps take away the ability for teams to chip
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Speaker 1: and even double team the outside rushers, Josh Hines-Allen and
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker, it would really help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this has sort of become, there's a few hot-button
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Speaker 4: issues obviously this week, but this is up there.
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be until you solve it.
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Speaker 4: I think you said before we heard from Liam, Brian,
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Speaker 4: that if they don't get to Drake May, they're in trouble. Well,
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Speaker 4: you can sort of fill in the blank. If you
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Speaker 4: don't get to any quarterback in this league, you're in trouble,
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Speaker 4: particularly these good teams that they're playing that are going
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Speaker 4: to decide the season. Denver, New England, Joe Burrow coming up.
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Speaker 4: If you don't get to these guys in the last
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Speaker 4: seven minutes, you have a hard time winning in this
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Speaker 4: league these days. To me, Duff, all the other stuff
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Speaker 4: that's out there right now, you can sort of get fixed.
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Speaker 2: You can scheme it. Defensive has to get to the quarterback.
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Speaker 4: And I think it's the huge issue in the next
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Speaker 4: few weeks to see if they can get more consistent
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Speaker 4: pass rush.
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Speaker 5: There's no question about it. I mean, that's the name
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Speaker 5: of the game. You're facing a quarterback coming into the
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Speaker 5: stadium this weekend that was the runner-up MVP, a guy
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Speaker 5: that led the NFL last year with a 72% completion rate.
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Speaker 5: You give this guy or any guy time, again, they're
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Speaker 5: going to make you pay. So pressure on the quarterback
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Speaker 5: is critical. You've got to affect the quarterback. You've got
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Speaker 5: to get him off rhythm, get him off the spot
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Speaker 5: if you have any chance to be successful.
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Speaker 2: All right, those are our big things.
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Speaker 8: Welcome into Behind Enemy Lines, where we check in with
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Speaker 8: a media member from the opponent of the Jaguars. This week,
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Speaker 8: they're playing the Patriots. Of course, we're checking in with
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Speaker 8: Kendra Middleton from 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston, and
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Speaker 8: I should give full credit. She's a Jacksonville girl and
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Speaker 8: a Jaguars fan at heart.
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Speaker 9: So, Kendra, thank you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 10: Of course. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 11: I feel uniquely qualified to do this, but I might
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Speaker 11: have a little bit of favoritism.
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Speaker 2: We'll see. Absolutely.
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Speaker 9: You know both sides very well.
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Speaker 8: So fill us in on the offseason for the Patriots,
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Speaker 8: obviously making it all the way to the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 8: but not the finish they wanted, of course.
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Speaker 9: So what is different this season for New England?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, obviously bringing in Romeo Dobbs from the Packers and A.J.
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Speaker 11: Brown from the Steelers were the.
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Speaker 10: Big additions this season.
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Speaker 11: But the biggest thing for me, I know that it
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Speaker 11: wasn't a change, but bringing Christian Gonzalez back, not doing
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Speaker 11: a sign and trade.
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Speaker 10: Really committing to their homegrown.
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Speaker 11: Talent, I think was the biggest thing that they did
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Speaker 11: in the offseason and through two weeks.
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Speaker 10: I know they're one in one, but it's really paid off.
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Speaker 8: The defense has been so strong Christian Gonzalez getting him
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Speaker 8: long term in the secondary but also the pass rush
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Speaker 8: what they've done in the middle it feels like Mike
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Speaker 8: Vrabel he's always been good with the defense but he's
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Speaker 8: got the Patriots defense operating at another level have you
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Speaker 8: seen that success continue into the first two weeks of
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Speaker 8: this season.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I agree with pro football focus.
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Speaker 11: I think it's maybe the best secondary in the NFL,
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Speaker 11: which allows you to commit more resources to pass pressure.
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Speaker 11: And I think that that's kind of been something that
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Speaker 11: they've relied on. Are they the most talented pass rush
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Speaker 11: in the league?
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Speaker 10: No, not by any means.
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Speaker 11: But when you have a secondary that you can trust,
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Speaker 11: you can really send your guys at them. And I
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Speaker 11: think that that's something that is kind of the bread
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Speaker 11: and butter of a Mike Rabel defense is figuring it
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Speaker 11: out even when you don't have the most available talent
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Speaker 11: but you know they're they're they're gonna give the Jaguars
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Speaker 11: some work this weekend I know that they have some
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Speaker 11: injuries we'll see how that goes for them later in
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Speaker 11: the week but it's time to step up for their
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Speaker 11: defense I think everything's gonna find their level I I
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Speaker 11: think that who both of these teams have shown they
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Speaker 11: are through two weeks will kind of be somewhere in
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Speaker 11: the middle of what we've seen.
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Speaker 9: I know people can be critical in Boston always.
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Speaker 8: The Drake May situation, is it as dire as people
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Speaker 8: make it out to be?
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Speaker 9: Is it just an offensive line? Does he feeling rushed?
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Speaker 9: How would you assess where he is currently?
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Speaker 11: I've watched the game from this weekend back, and I
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Speaker 11: think that the offensive line is better than people are
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Speaker 11: giving them credit for and better than they seem in
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Speaker 11: real time.
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Speaker 10: So I don't think that that's really the issue for him.
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Speaker 10: I think it's more a lack of confidence.
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Speaker 11: He's played a lot of really strong defenses over his
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Speaker 11: last 10 or so games, and I don't think people
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Speaker 11: are giving him enough credit for that.
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Speaker 10: He's entering his third year and To be honest, people
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Speaker 10: at home might relate to this in a way. And
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Speaker 10: when Trevor was in his third year, there was a
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Speaker 10: lot of noise. Obviously, A.J. Brown goes down.
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Speaker 11: Romeo Dobbs is probably, like I said, somewhere in the
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Speaker 11: middle of who we've seen him be the last two weeks,
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Speaker 11: but I just think he needs to slow down, take
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Speaker 11: the easy check down from time to time. And people
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Speaker 11: really just need to, he reminds me of Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 11: and just all of that conversation and the noise around
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Speaker 11: the program, if you will, for lack of a better term.
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Speaker 10: I just think that there's similar situations.
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Speaker 11: I wouldn't want to be in anyone else's quarterback situation
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Speaker 11: in the league compared to the Patriots. They have You know,
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Speaker 11: a guy who in his second year took them to
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Speaker 11: the Super Bowl. I think people just need to chill.
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Speaker 11: Quarterbacks take a while to develop in this league.
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Speaker 10: It's OK.
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Speaker 11: I learned that lesson watching Trevor Lawrence and some of
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Speaker 11: these other young guys around the league.
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Speaker 10: People just it's he's going to be fine. It's fine.
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Speaker 11: I know that it's, you know, been a hot and
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Speaker 11: heavy season for the Patriots so far, but he's OK.
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Speaker 8: We're very well versed in the quarterback controversy made by
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Speaker 8: the media. So we understand that certainly. Looking at this matchup,
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Speaker 8: can you give me an X-factor player, somebody on offense,
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Speaker 8: somebody on defense for the Patriots that is going to
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Speaker 8: need to play really well if they want to get
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Speaker 8: a win in Jacksonville?
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Speaker 10: The offensive side, I'm going to go Romeo Dobbs.
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Speaker 11: You know, the first game against Seattle, he had some
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Speaker 11: serious major drops. It kind of reminds me of that
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Speaker 11: meme that's like, I accidentally became important at work and
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Speaker 11: it's ruining my life. He wasn't expecting to be a
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Speaker 11: wide receiver one in this offense. So I think if
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Speaker 11: the Patriots are going to be successful, that's got to
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Speaker 11: be their guy. No, you know, kind of butter fingers
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Speaker 11: for him. He's got to be a difference maker and
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Speaker 11: be a difference maker early. And then on the defensive side,
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Speaker 11: I'm going to go with a rookie Gabe Hackes. There's
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Speaker 11: going to be some injuries and a lot of questions
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Speaker 11: for the Patriots heading in to this week at linebacker.
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Speaker 11: I think it's time for the kid to make some
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Speaker 11: noise and step up and have a good game. If
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Speaker 11: the Patriots are going to be successful on the defensive
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Speaker 11: side of the ball.
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Speaker 10: I think he definitely makes some major impact for them.
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Speaker 9: All right, it's going to be a good one. Kendra,
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Speaker 9: we'll see you on Sunday.
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Speaker 8: That was behind the enemy lines as we get ready
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Speaker 8: for week three, the matchup against the Patriots.
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Speaker 9: Stay with us here on Jags AM. We'll tell you
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Speaker 9: what we can expect on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: now to what, if it's not your favorite segment of
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Speaker 1: We call it Jags Win If, and we present to
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Speaker 1: you the coach, Mark Duff.
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Speaker 2: Duff, tell us, Jaguars win if.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Brian. I can't wait for this. I got
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Speaker 5: plenty of information for you on this one. First and foremost,
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Speaker 5: win and control the line of scrimmage. Be the more
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Speaker 5: physical and tough team. Let me give you a visual.
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Speaker 5: Think about last week. Again, the second half, first drive
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Speaker 5: of the second half against Denver. Our offense came out
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Speaker 5: and we bullied the Denver defensive line. Five straight runs.
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Speaker 5: Physical play, controlling the line of scrimmage. When you win
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Speaker 5: the run game, when you control the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 5: now you get into winnable and manageable down and distance.
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Speaker 5: What I'm talking about is this. Win first down, second
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Speaker 5: and two. We love that call. Win second down, third
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Speaker 5: and two. We love that call. The play caller gets
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Speaker 5: the best decisions he can make on his playlist. Give
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Speaker 5: the ball to Tootin, sustain drives, protect our quarterback, and
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Speaker 5: score touchdowns. That's what you get done on offense. Now
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Speaker 5: on defense, let me give you another visual. Look at
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Speaker 5: in the second half, I believe it was, the goal
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Speaker 5: line stand. It's first and goal on the one-yard line.
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Speaker 5: They have three plays. We knock them back, they lose yardage.
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Speaker 5: That's controlling the line of scrimmage. Once again, getting the
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Speaker 5: proper down and distance, manageable and winnable calls for your coordinator.
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Speaker 5: We love second and eighth, third and tenth. Now you've
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Speaker 5: earned the right to win as far as rushing the quarterback.
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Speaker 5: So excellence as far as that's concerned. Win and rush
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Speaker 5: the quarterback. Okay, now, make the quarterback nervous. We've got
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Speaker 5: to do everything we can to affect the quarterback. That's
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Speaker 5: the 11th commandment that Moses brought down on the tablets,
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Speaker 5: affect the quarterback. Well, how do you get that done?
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Speaker 5: It's done with rushing coverage working together. Pass rush. We've
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Speaker 5: got to win the one-on-ones. As our guys rush against
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Speaker 5: the tackles and the guards, you've got to win. You
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Speaker 5: can't rely on blitz to always save your bacon, if
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Speaker 5: you will, in terms of play. So win the one-on-ones
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Speaker 5: and rush. Win the one-on-ones and coverage. Linebackers and DBs
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Speaker 5: covering the running backs, the tight ends, the receivers. Win
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Speaker 5: those right now. Rush and coverage working together. Also this.
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Speaker 5: Utilize the skies. Make the quarterback... Vision right now, cloudy
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Speaker 5: and muddy. Affect his vision, affect his decision, all right?
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Speaker 5: But don't let the skies lead to our demise. Rush
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Speaker 5: and coverage working together, affect the quarterback, make him hold
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Speaker 5: the football, get him off the spot. Again, a very
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Speaker 5: effective way to win the downs and beat this team
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Speaker 5: coming up. And the last one. Win the takeaway battle.
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Speaker 5: Get the ball back for our offense. Takeaways win games.
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Speaker 5: Number one statistic in ball that equates to winning games.
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Speaker 5: You win the takeaway battle, your percentage to win is outstanding.
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Speaker 5: We're talking about ball security for the offense. Again, they
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Speaker 5: work on it in practice, bring it to the game.
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Speaker 5: That means don't throw it to the opponent. That means
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Speaker 5: double trouble, cover it up when you're in traffic right now,
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Speaker 5: protect the ball, protect it. That's going to be critical
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Speaker 5: for us. Defense, get the ball off him. We do, again,
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Speaker 5: the best takeaway drills in ball. Punch, pull, rip to
17:26
Speaker 5: get the ball off the guy. Again, establish field position,
17:29
Speaker 5: get the ball off him as far as that's concerned,
17:31
Speaker 5: critical components to win. And the last thing, hey, playmakers,
17:36
Speaker 5: step up. Make the plays you're supposed to make.
17:39
Speaker 1: Duff, 11th commandment. I don't know about everyone else, but
17:42
Speaker 1: I got an idea. How do you feel about a beard.
17:44
Speaker 2: A staff, and a cloak next week?
17:46
Speaker 5: Well, I can't equate being like Moses. He's done way
17:49
Speaker 5: better things than me, but I'll try.
17:51
Speaker 1: You have things to say, no doubt. Let's go back
17:53
Speaker 1: to the very top, and that's controlling the line of scrimmage.
17:56
Speaker 1: This team did in week one. It did not in
17:59
Speaker 1: week two. So where are they at this point, right?
18:03
Speaker 1: I mean, are they what we saw against the Browns?
18:05
Speaker 1: Are they what we saw against the Broncos? Or are
18:07
Speaker 1: they what we saw in both?
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Speaker 5: No, they're what we saw against, in my opinion, the Browns.
18:12
Speaker 5: The fourth quarter was really the thing that got to us,
18:14
Speaker 5: and I think we got stunned a little bit. We
18:16
Speaker 5: got hit a little bit, and we were surprised maybe
18:19
Speaker 5: about it, and it distracted us. Because really throughout the game,
18:22
Speaker 5: like I mentioned, the drive that we had, I mean,
18:25
Speaker 5: we controlled the line of scrimmage. We did a lot
18:26
Speaker 5: of positive things. The drive we had to open up.
18:29
Speaker 5: The second half, the two-minute drive before the end of
18:33
Speaker 5: the half in the first half. Are you kidding me?
18:35
Speaker 5: Tremendous stuff. So, again, we got a little distracted, for
18:38
Speaker 5: lack of a better word, or rattled, shall I say.
18:40
Speaker 5: We'll get back on track this week.
18:42
Speaker 4: Duff, I like the make-may because I think that's really
18:46
Speaker 4: the key to the whole thing, including turnovers. I guess
18:53
Speaker 4: you already said it, but how important is it to
18:56
Speaker 4: get those turnovers, to get pressure on a quarterback right now,
18:59
Speaker 4: that has shown a little bit of a tendency to
19:01
Speaker 4: throw the ball to the other team in the last
19:02
Speaker 4: few games.
19:04
Speaker 2: Early, I guess, is when you got to get pressure on.
19:06
Speaker 5: No question about that. And their goal is to start
19:08
Speaker 5: fast too. This guy right now, again, has looked to
19:12
Speaker 5: me a little bit uncomfortable in the first two games
19:14
Speaker 5: of this season. A guy that we mentioned earlier, 72% completion,
19:18
Speaker 5: led the NFL last year. But again, he struggled early
19:22
Speaker 5: in games right now. We've got to make it, as
19:24
Speaker 5: I mentioned, muddy for him in terms of where he's
19:26
Speaker 5: going to decide to throw it. Cloud his vision, cloud
19:28
Speaker 5: his decision. And that's rushing coverage, working together. Everybody has
19:31
Speaker 5: a role as far as that's concerned. He's had, as
19:34
Speaker 5: you just mentioned, he's had four interceptions this season so far.
19:39
Speaker 5: And actually, he only had eight all of last year.
19:41
Speaker 5: In fact, when you look at the playoffs from last
19:44
Speaker 5: year and this season, he's got eight interceptions. So he's
19:48
Speaker 5: trending in the direction we want. where he's uncomfortable, where
19:51
Speaker 5: he may throw us the football, where he's struggling in decisions.
19:54
Speaker 2: You know, they brought in A.J. Brown.
19:56
Speaker 1: They made the trade with Philadelphia to bring in a
19:58
Speaker 1: guy that Mike Vrabel knew well from his days in Tennessee.
20:01
Speaker 1: And early on, the game against Seattle, it looked like
20:03
Speaker 1: they were going to force feed him the ball. He
20:06
Speaker 1: left the game. He is on injured reserve with a
20:08
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain. So do you think Hunter Henry is
20:10
Speaker 1: their top target at this point, the tight end? I
20:12
Speaker 1: know they've got Romeo Dobbs, and I know he was
20:14
Speaker 1: a very good player in Green Bay, but it would
20:16
Speaker 1: seem a quarterback who's nervous, who wants to get rid
20:18
Speaker 1: of the ball, might want to go to his tight end.
20:21
Speaker 5: Brian, you're dead on, brother. I mean, that's amazing. Great,
20:24
Speaker 5: great revelation by you. He said that Hunter Henry is
20:28
Speaker 5: his safety blanket. He's his go-to guy. And he demonstrated
20:31
Speaker 5: that in the game against Pittsburgh last week. But Dobbs, Douglas,
20:36
Speaker 5: they've got a number of guys, the receivers out of
20:38
Speaker 5: the backfield in terms of Henderson, Stevenson. They've got weapons
20:41
Speaker 5: across the board as far as that's concerned. But good
20:45
Speaker 5: pickup by you, Henry being maybe his safety blanket.
20:48
Speaker 4: Final thing on the control line scrimmage deficit. Jaguars offensive
20:53
Speaker 4: line against the Patriots defensive front. I'm of the opinion
20:57
Speaker 4: that even a very good offensive line can have trouble
21:01
Speaker 4: against this Patriots front. Why is the Patriots front so
21:05
Speaker 4: good defensively?
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Speaker 5: John, you're, again, another great pickup. I mean, they manhandled
21:09
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh in the run and pass game. Their defensive line did.
21:13
Speaker 5: First of all, they've got really good interior guys. Milton
21:16
Speaker 5: Williams inside, Barrymore inside. They have the ability to not
21:19
Speaker 5: only knock you back, but they can get off of
21:21
Speaker 5: blocks and make plays. and then on their edge guys
21:24
Speaker 5: as far as that's concerned. So they are a physical group.
21:27
Speaker 5: They believe in trying to win the line of scrimmage
21:29
Speaker 5: like we talked about is a key for us in
21:31
Speaker 5: terms of victory. Again, a very physical group that, as
21:35
Speaker 5: I said before, they really, Pittsburgh had one explosive play
21:39
Speaker 5: in the entire game. Well, that's reflective of a good
21:42
Speaker 5: defense starting with the line of scrimmage.
21:44
Speaker 2: All right, Jaguars and Patriots, come your way.
21:45
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21:50
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Speaker 1: in our show where we try to look ahead and
22:30
Speaker 1: predict what the headlines might be on Monday morning around
22:34
Speaker 1: the Jaguars game on Sunday. And I'll start first. We'll
22:38
Speaker 1: go with style points. I say that we see some
22:41
Speaker 1: style from a stylish Jaguar. That would be Travis Hunter.
22:45
Speaker 1: He's been the story all week long. I think he
22:47
Speaker 1: gets a touchdown this week. I don't know what side
22:50
Speaker 1: of the ball it's on, but I know there will
22:51
Speaker 1: be some flair by number 12, so we'll go with
22:54
Speaker 1: style points. I think the Jaguars find a way to
22:57
Speaker 1: get a win on Sunday at home, a place where
22:59
Speaker 1: they have been very successful. Four consecutive home wins for
23:02
Speaker 1: this football team. They were 7-1 last year at home,
23:06
Speaker 1: which matches the all-time franchise record of home wins in
23:10
Speaker 1: a single season, matching the 1999 team. Duff, what you got?
23:14
Speaker 5: Home sweet home. I have. Jaguars R & R. And
23:18
Speaker 5: what I mean by Jaguars R & R, I mean
23:21
Speaker 5: respond and rebound. In other words, this team right now
23:25
Speaker 5: had a tough fourth quarter, had a tough loss, a
23:27
Speaker 5: one score loss. I think they realize they're better than that.
23:30
Speaker 5: They let one get away. We want to have a
23:33
Speaker 5: chance to choke a team out. We choke them out.
23:35
Speaker 5: So I see them right now, R & R, rebound and.
23:39
Speaker 1: And that guy there, Trevor Lawrence, would seem to be
23:41
Speaker 1: the key to it.
23:42
Speaker 5: Without a doubt, always is right now. And again, I
23:45
Speaker 5: feel like, again, he understands some of the things that
23:47
Speaker 5: he struggled with in this game, and he'll come back
23:49
Speaker 5: and correct them.
23:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's something to what you guys are
23:52
Speaker 4: saying in terms of Trevor playing at home has been
23:55
Speaker 4: really good lately.
23:56
Speaker 2: I went with a grimy good day.
24:01
Speaker 4: Liam likes to call this team a grimy getty team,
24:04
Speaker 4: and I think he's right.
24:06
Speaker 2: Patriots are grimy too.
24:07
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I think if they're going to win, they're
24:11
Speaker 4: going to have to play this gutty sort of game
24:15
Speaker 4: that the Patriots force you to play.
24:17
Speaker 2: The thing that worries you about the Patriots, they don't
24:19
Speaker 2: give you games.
24:21
Speaker 4: And even if they get down, they don't panic when
24:26
Speaker 4: they're down and sort of make it easy to pull away.
24:28
Speaker 4: The Browns maybe did that a little bit, right? So
24:32
Speaker 4: if you're going to win, you have to win. They
24:34
Speaker 4: force you to play their style. So the Jaguars have
24:36
Speaker 4: to win in a way maybe they haven't won a
24:38
Speaker 4: whole lot I think it's a very good test for
24:41
Speaker 4: this team in that regard.
24:42
Speaker 1: Do Mike Vrabel's Patriots remind you of his Titans? Do
24:45
Speaker 1: they play a similar style? I mean, they don't have
24:46
Speaker 1: the same sort of players.
24:47
Speaker 4: I think if you changed uniforms, you wouldn't know the difference.
24:53
Speaker 4: Only because he wants to get to the fourth quarter,
24:58
Speaker 4: and then once he gets to the fourth quarter, he
25:00
Speaker 4: wants to make you make plays that you don't want
25:03
Speaker 4: to make to win. I guess every team sort of
25:05
Speaker 4: does that, Duff, but they're really good at it.
25:07
Speaker 5: Well, I think he does an excellent job of fundamentals
25:10
Speaker 5: and technique are the basis of everything that they do. Again,
25:13
Speaker 5: they're not going to beat themselves, as you just mentioned.
25:16
Speaker 5: They're going to make you beat them as far as
25:18
Speaker 5: that's concerned.
25:19
Speaker 2: That's hard to do. It's harder to do than it sounds.
25:21
Speaker 5: They're not going to give plays away.
25:22
Speaker 2: I just want to give one final thought.
25:23
Speaker 1: Jeff Lagerman did a video this week that's out on
25:25
Speaker 1: social media about Devon Hamilton and the way that he played.
25:28
Speaker 2: In the middle of the line.
25:30
Speaker 1: I bring it up because it's critical. We saw Travion
25:32
Speaker 1: Henderson rip up the middle of Pittsburgh's defense. And again,
25:35
Speaker 1: 33 years of covering the.
25:36
Speaker 8: Steelers, too.
25:38
Speaker 1: I have never seen the Steelers' defensive line look as
25:42
Speaker 1: disheveled as they did on that particular run. It was
25:45
Speaker 1: wide open. Devon Hamilton, the way he's playing right now,
25:48
Speaker 1: all but guarantees you're not going to see that kind
25:50
Speaker 1: of a run against this team.
25:51
Speaker 5: There's no question about that. And, I mean, again, I
25:53
Speaker 5: think that, boy, I can't say enough for Devon Hamilton
25:57
Speaker 5: and the play he's given our football team. You know,
25:59
Speaker 5: week after week, you talk about the word consistency, that
26:02
Speaker 5: guy's got that, and we need everybody else to employ consistency.
26:06
Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it.
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26:09
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