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Jaguars Happy Hour | Previewing Week 1 vs. Panthers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: coming up, a preview of this Sunday's game and kickoff
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Speaker 1: weekend week one of the National Football League. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offensive debut, what's Liam Cohen's attack going to look like?
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Speaker 1: Jaguars defense making their debut as well against Bryce Young
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Speaker 1: and the Panthers playmakers. Coach Mark Duffner in studio with
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Speaker 1: us as well, get his thoughts and all that. For
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Speaker 1: the first half hour of the program, Liam Cohen showed
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock, we'll have Besselli and Gladstone again. They've
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Speaker 1: got some splaining to do about that second hour Moving ahead.
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Speaker 2: We got some what splain him to do? That's an
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Speaker 2: s P L A I N I N G apostrophe.
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Speaker 2: I like that. I like that.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that at five o'clock on the network.
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Speaker 1: We're on ten TOXL not A two point five FM,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube JP Shadrick, Jeff Logoman,
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Speaker 1: coach Mark Neufter, Oh my.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, Mark Duffner. Yeah, absolutely, I've known you forever, Yes, coaching.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Good to see, appreciate good, welcome, better to be seen
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Speaker 2: to thank you, better to be seen than viewed.
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Speaker 3: Correct, I appreciate no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Here we are week one.
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Speaker 1: Finally here, I mean as a I mean, what do
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Speaker 1: you think is going through Liam Cohen's mind right now,
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Speaker 1: first time head coach in the NFL, finally on the
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Speaker 1: doorstep of week one.
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Speaker 3: I think she's I think he's anxious to get it on.
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Speaker 3: I think he's wants game on as soon as possible.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a call nation of a lot of work,
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Speaker 3: a lot of dreams, a lot of focus as far
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Speaker 3: as that's concerned, and I think that the one o'clock
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Speaker 3: start can't come too soon for him.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of crazy things that happened week one,
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Speaker 2: and because a lot of it is largely that you
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Speaker 2: don't know what teams are going to look like. As
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Speaker 2: a coach, how do you how do you prepare for that?
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Speaker 3: Jeff? I mean, really, what I think is this. You
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Speaker 3: just know there's going to be a lot of unscattered looks.
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Speaker 3: You go through the spring, you go through training camp.
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Speaker 3: Really every day is unscattered looks, and so you tell
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Speaker 3: your players, look, we're trust your principles, what you've been taught,
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Speaker 3: trust your eyes, and let's go play. You can't worry
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Speaker 3: about that. If you do, then you see ghosts out there,
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Speaker 3: and ghost will distraction ghosts.
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Speaker 2: Ghosts is never good. Well, for example, Duff, let's say
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Speaker 2: you're preparing for Liam Cohen and his staff. Okay, you're
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Speaker 2: with the Carolina Panthers. As a linebacker coach, you're trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out what is offense is going to look like.
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Speaker 2: And maybe if you were on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the ball for the carol lot of Panthers, you're trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out what their defense may look like. Where
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Speaker 2: do you go to get that information? Are you going
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Speaker 2: back obviously to Tampa for Liam Cohene to look at
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Speaker 2: that information? And with Anthony Campanelli the defensive coordinator, do
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Speaker 2: you go back to Green Bay or do you go
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Speaker 2: back to Miami? Is that what they do?
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Speaker 3: Sure do As far as Anthony Campanelli, I probably would
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Speaker 3: focus on Green Bay. Sometimes if you go too far
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Speaker 3: back at your again, you are chasing your tail. You mean,
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Speaker 3: who knows what they're going to do. But I try
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Speaker 3: to narrow it down a little bit as far as
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Speaker 3: that's concerned. But in terms of studying Liam, I would
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Speaker 3: be looking at those Tampa games, and I'd be looking
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Speaker 3: at the Tampa offense against similar defenses to us. If
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Speaker 3: there's a defense that's not our front or doesn't operate
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Speaker 3: as much in the same type of coverage schemes that
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Speaker 3: we use, and I'd probably throw that out. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: studying with their tendencies and what the guy has thought
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Speaker 3: against similar offense and defenses. Where you go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Carolina knows him because they had them in
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Speaker 1: the division, right, I mean that's one that they look
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Speaker 1: right at directly, right. How many games does like, you know,
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Speaker 1: like put in a game plan together. I've typically seen
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Speaker 1: three games, you know, to where you're looking as a
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Speaker 1: coach to kind of focus in on for the players,
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Speaker 1: because with the players, you don't want to have them
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Speaker 1: over ndondated with information.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's the problem sometimes you do as coaches,
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Speaker 3: you know, you start looking at too much information, you
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Speaker 3: put too much in their pockets. You're going to slow
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Speaker 3: them down. Too much information is is part of the opponent,
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Speaker 3: it's an enemy. And so I think the three to
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Speaker 3: four game breakdown is really all you need. Some teams,
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Speaker 3: I've seen them break down more than that. I just
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Speaker 3: think it's just too much information. You can't get a
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Speaker 3: good you know, you're trying to determine what's their DNA
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Speaker 3: and you're putting too much in it.
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Speaker 2: I think it's pretty amazing. JP's that we hit. We
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Speaker 2: talk about not wanting to get too much information, but
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Speaker 2: the one of the greatest tools in the modern NFL
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Speaker 2: is analytics and analytics. And with analytics, you can say, okay,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to look at just four games, We're
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Speaker 2: going to look at every game they ever had, just
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Speaker 2: because you're looking at the output numbers, which are simplification
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Speaker 2: and it's given you the percentages of let's say, what
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Speaker 2: kind of a call that Liam Cohen may had or
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Speaker 2: have on a third one to two. You know, I
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Speaker 2: mean you've probably seen analytics from it didn't even exist
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Speaker 2: to where it is today, which everybody relies on it.
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Speaker 2: I mean for everything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I sure have. I mean I didn't know anything
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Speaker 3: about analytics when my first game, we didn't have it.
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Speaker 3: It was all by hand and that type of thing.
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Speaker 3: Now there's so much. I mean, there's analytics on how
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Speaker 3: they brush their teeth. I mean, you know, so you've
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Speaker 3: got to be careful on how much of that information
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Speaker 3: you chase, because number one, it's time consuming. It still
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Speaker 3: comes back or who are their best players? What do
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Speaker 3: they run? And those are the things we've got to stop.
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Speaker 3: And again it's also about us, our.
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Speaker 2: Execution, especially week one, the lack of knowing what some
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Speaker 2: people may do. I mean when you talk about principles,
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Speaker 2: I mean principles or everything. Most important thing is play hard,
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Speaker 2: play smart, play tough.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, probably like the three coaches are anything else, anything else,
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Speaker 3: you distort their vision in terms of your players. So
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Speaker 3: real important to do with that.
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Speaker 1: Shadwick, Jeff Logerman coach Mark Tuffner with us in the
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Speaker 1: first half hour.
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Speaker 2: Each and every week. We got you all season.
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Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, I'm excited. What a what a tremendous
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Speaker 3: opportunity for me that I'm very thankful to you guys,
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars forgive me this chance.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's a big reason why we have you each
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Speaker 1: and every week because of your film study and preparation
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Speaker 1: of the upcoming opponent. Let's dig into the Carolina Panthers,
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Speaker 1: shout to you and start off with their offense. You're
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Speaker 1: a defensive minded coach. Certainly last year Bryce Young was
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Speaker 1: benched and then came back and got better, it felt
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Speaker 1: like statistically as the season went along.
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Speaker 2: What did that look like on film?
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Speaker 1: And how do you defend against Bryce Young and what
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Speaker 1: he brings to the table.
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Speaker 3: Well, what it looked like was improvement. I mean you
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Speaker 3: could see a more confident player, a more decisive player.
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Speaker 3: His statistics he was like sixteen touchdowns and seven interceptions,
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Speaker 3: which was not the case in the first two His
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Speaker 3: play resulted in a four to five record in the
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Speaker 3: last nine games, and in particular two and one in
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Speaker 3: the last three games, and he played his best game
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Speaker 3: of the season in their last game of the year
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Speaker 3: against Atlanta, where he had a terrific game his best game,
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Speaker 3: seventy percent plus in terms of percentage completion, three passing touchdowns,
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Speaker 3: two rushing touchdowns. I mean he led him on a
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Speaker 3: drive in overtime to win the game. Much better play
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Speaker 3: by him, So you saw a much more decisive player.
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Speaker 3: Now the key for our defense, the Jaguar defenses contain
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Speaker 3: this guy. I mean, this guy is their offense is
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Speaker 3: going to be quick to get it out quick froze.
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Speaker 3: If he doesn't have it, he's going to tucket run
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Speaker 3: it and you can't. And he can run. He was
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Speaker 3: their second leading rusher. I think he was five yet
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Speaker 3: to carry, so he can make you miss. He's got
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Speaker 3: a capability rush laying integrity, not eliminating duck Alley's meaning
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Speaker 3: holes that he can run through. In terms of the pressure,
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Speaker 3: and he feels pressure, he's still a young guy. Instead,
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Speaker 3: he's got happy he's got happy feet, and I think
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Speaker 3: that Anthony will probably employ some disguise. You know, this
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Speaker 3: quarterback still hasn't seen everything in the league, and the
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Speaker 3: more you can make him hold the ball because he's
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Speaker 3: not sure what he sees and how he progresses to
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Speaker 3: how he's going to see and throw. That's to your advantage. Now,
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Speaker 3: don't let the skies lead to your demise, meaning our defense,
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Speaker 3: don't do too much, but enough to try to distort
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Speaker 3: the vision to this quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of people that are talking about
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Speaker 2: how he played towards the end of last year. And
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Speaker 2: if you look at like the last three games, they
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Speaker 2: averaged like thirty one points a game, and he was
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Speaker 2: pretty good. But you know, even when you watch the
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Speaker 2: film of those games, you see the moments that he
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Speaker 2: still had going all the way back before he got benched.
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Speaker 2: You know, where he doesn't see a red or his
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Speaker 2: eyes drop and look at pressure and scrambles out of
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Speaker 2: the pocket because he's just not sure. And I think
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Speaker 2: that those qualities still exist. I don't think it's all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden he's completely morphed into this great player.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at his numbers. His numbers are still pedestrian.
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Speaker 2: I mean very pedestrian. I mean, for me, if I'm
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Speaker 2: a coach, Okay, I'm telling my team exactly what Duff said.
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Speaker 2: He's gotten better. He can hurt us when he moves,
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Speaker 2: because they do move him a lot. That's kind of
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Speaker 2: his game. They run a lot of that read option
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Speaker 2: college football kind of system to get him moving and
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Speaker 2: on the move. But deep down, I'm sitting there thinking,
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Speaker 2: we got to stop the running back, you know, because
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Speaker 2: if we stop the running back, this guy ain't good
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Speaker 2: enough to beat us from the pocket.
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Speaker 1: Shuba Hubbard finished eighth in the league in rushing lands.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he's a great back as a runner and as
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Speaker 2: a receiver.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And what Jeff says said, let's make this quarterback
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Speaker 3: beat us because again, experience wise, he doesn't have it
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Speaker 3: yet and his coach, as he mentioned earlier, he's still
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Speaker 3: developing right now. The more we can put indecision into him,
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Speaker 3: that's to our advantage the running game, Like you just
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Speaker 3: mentioned Tuba, Plus they got Rico O'Donnell. It was a
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Speaker 3: thousand yard rusher, had over forty catches. Those running backs
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Speaker 3: have been, you know, very productive.
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Speaker 2: And they got an et.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a draft pick who's a heck of a
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Speaker 3: player to a one cut type runner. So offensive line
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Speaker 3: that returns although a little banged up, but running the ball,
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Speaker 3: play action pass, quick throw screens, that'll be what I
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Speaker 3: think we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's uh you know, it's it's got to kind
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Speaker 2: of joke around. The coaches always say that about you know,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna pump guys up, you know, on the other
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Speaker 2: side of the ball. I mean, you are. I mean,
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Speaker 2: because the last thing in the world you want to
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Speaker 2: do is go in there and tell your defense you
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Speaker 2: know what, this guy really sucks. Yeah, I mean, we
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Speaker 2: just got to worry about the running game and we
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Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the quarterback the rest of
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Speaker 2: the week off on Sunday, you know, I mean, coaches
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Speaker 2: have a tendency to do that for sure, to prop
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Speaker 2: up guys that maybe aren't that good or sure, you know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, because you want to make sure that there's
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Speaker 2: still a level of respect so that the players still
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Speaker 2: prepare to play well against that particular weakness that a
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Speaker 2: team may have. But I think the Jaguars defense has
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Speaker 2: an opportunity at playing well against Carolina, and if they
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Speaker 2: can make sure that Bryce Young has it shouldered on him,
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be very difficult for him
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Speaker 2: to have great success. And he's also got some big
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Speaker 2: bodied receivers to throw to on the outside. Now, the
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Speaker 2: next question here is looking offensive line.
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Speaker 1: He's audience, he's ducking down and can't see.
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Speaker 2: Over the plame. I mean, I mean, I know you're
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Speaker 2: you're an Alabama apologist. How tall is he? For real?
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Speaker 2: He's not that tall? Five to nine? No, he's not that.
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Speaker 2: He's not Kyler Mury.
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Speaker 3: I bet you's five eleven issue too.
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Speaker 1: So however, his receivers are much taller than that. I
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Speaker 1: mean Ted McMillan, the rookie out of Arizona six four
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Speaker 1: Xavier ll get six three two twenty seven as a secondary,
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Speaker 1: when you see those guys coming off the line at you,
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Speaker 1: how do you defend it?
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Speaker 3: Well, you've got to get hands on him to start off.
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Speaker 3: I mean, and and he had. In watching the pre
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Speaker 3: season film, Ted McMillan struggled some with people pressing, you know,
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Speaker 3: in terms of trying to get a released. So no
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Speaker 3: free releases by the corners, guys that are up there
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Speaker 3: in good, hard nosed positions, or anybody re routes by
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Speaker 3: the outside linebackers. Anything we can get done as far
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Speaker 3: as that's concerned. But it's always going to come down
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Speaker 3: in the passing game to rush and coverage working together.
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Speaker 3: You know, you give anybody time to throw and let
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Speaker 3: this quarterback get out and extend plays. And he can
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Speaker 3: do that. Well, shoot, that's tough sledding, you know. So again,
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Speaker 3: rush lanes as far as you know, the front's concerned, discipline,
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Speaker 3: as far as that's concerned, good eyes in the back end,
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Speaker 3: and again being a little aggressive in terms of trying
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Speaker 3: no free releases by the white outs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the tech get in his face, come up. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, when an out of size is vantage,
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Speaker 2: is kind of hard to take advantage of the sides
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Speaker 2: if you can't get off a line of scrimmage, you know. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, you've got a couple physical corners that
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Speaker 2: and I'm not even going to Travis Hunter yet. I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about Jari and Jones and Jordan Lewis, Tyson Campbell.
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Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are they can be physical at
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Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. So I hope they get physical
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Speaker 2: with him. But the most important thing is that make
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Speaker 2: him be the quarterback Bryce Young, make him be a
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Speaker 2: pocket passer, make him stay in the pocket. Don't let
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Speaker 2: him kind of get out and then start creating things
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Speaker 2: on his own, because you know that's and you watch
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Speaker 2: the film of last year, what Duff is talking about
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Speaker 2: that Atlanta game. He did a lot of that in
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Speaker 2: that game. Let's come back, gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to the other side of the football and
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Speaker 1: take a look at the Carolina Panthers defense from a
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Speaker 1: season ago and what might have changed in their scheme
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Speaker 1: and what the Jaguars will face this week at a
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Speaker 1: little later. Coach Mark Dufner's three keys to a Jaguars
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Speaker 1: victory to hold you to three?
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Speaker 3: Well, I got a few more than that, but hey,
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Speaker 3: well it might be a Coughlan three.
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Speaker 1: What is that?
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Speaker 3: The twelve three.
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Speaker 2: D Caughlin every Friday used to do keys to the game. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: and literally we're like, okay, you know it, give us
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Speaker 2: five or six main things. It was like thirty five
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Speaker 2: thirty five dof to sixty. Gotta take notes.
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Speaker 1: We're back at a moment on ten to Excel ninety
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Speaker 4: I think for any rookie, usually the most strides is
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Speaker 4: going to be mentally learning a new system. Whether it's
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Speaker 4: coming from a spread system in college or a pro
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Speaker 4: system in college, there's a lot to learn. So probably
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Speaker 4: should say that for rookies or a new player of
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Speaker 4: free agent signing. Those strides are always going to be
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Speaker 4: biggest Mentally, it's tough for a guy to show what
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Speaker 4: he can do and show all his physical capabilities when
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Speaker 4: he's still trying to think about where am I lining up,
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Speaker 4: what am I doing? What's my job. So Justin's ability
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Speaker 4: to go out there and line up and play and
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Speaker 4: play fast, I think shows with his technique and some
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Speaker 4: of the different things you see as a receiver.
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Speaker 1: Mark Duffner and studio with us on Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: let's start with the Travis Hunter. As he was Ydessky
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Speaker 1: was talking about on the offensive perspective, what you might
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Speaker 1: think of his progression through this offseason. But he's listed
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Speaker 1: as the starting wide receiver, he's listed as a backup
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Speaker 1: corner though there are only two corners on the depth chart.
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Speaker 1: What's the what's the feel here?
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 1: And what do you expect to see from Travis Hunter?
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Speaker 2: Week one?
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Speaker 1: After all this build up logs, they'll start with you, like,
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Speaker 1: what what is this thing going to look like?
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Speaker 2: It's a great question. I don't know, you know, And
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Speaker 2: that's something that I think as a coaching staff, you
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Speaker 2: want to keep as close to the vest as possible.
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Speaker 2: But the more film that's out there, the more that
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Speaker 2: opponents will have time to prepare for him. But I
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Speaker 2: think the opponents are going to look at the The
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Speaker 2: whole experiment of a two way player is look, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna wait and to see what it looks like down
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Speaker 2: the road. I don't think they're going to an opponent
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Speaker 2: will prepare for anything specific about a two way player.
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Speaker 2: I think they're going to be preparing for the systems
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Speaker 2: more concerned obviously with the Brian Thomas Junior, more concerned
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Speaker 2: about a defensive scheme than they are a one specific
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Speaker 2: player in that now. The one thing I think they'll
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Speaker 2: tell their players though, Look, Brian Thomas Junior is really fast,
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Speaker 2: and so is this Hunter guy that can really run
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Speaker 2: as well. But I mean as far as scheming to
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Speaker 2: stop him, I don't see that happening in week one.
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Speaker 3: I don't either. I think that would be a major mistake.
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Speaker 3: You put too much attention on that and everything else
17:26
Speaker 3: can fall apart. I think that you'll see Hunter, this
17:30
Speaker 3: is a guess, just like Jeff was saying, I think
17:32
Speaker 3: you'll see him more on offense. I would look forward
17:35
Speaker 3: to seeing a matchup with him, you know, going against McMillan,
17:39
Speaker 3: their top receiver. They went to get against each other
17:42
Speaker 3: Arizona and Colorado a couple of times, so there's some
17:45
Speaker 3: familiarity there. But I think that keep in mind too
17:49
Speaker 3: that Travis has been limited in the last few weeks,
17:52
Speaker 3: in the last few couple weeks in terms of practice participation,
17:56
Speaker 3: so to put too much on his plate in the
17:58
Speaker 3: first game I think would be gate some of the
18:00
Speaker 3: skills that he has, and he certainly has great skill.
18:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think too that you know, the at the
18:06
Speaker 2: end of the day, it's about trying to win football games.
18:08
Speaker 2: It's not about trying to create a modern day to
18:11
Speaker 2: way player. I mean, I mean so, and I'm not
18:14
Speaker 2: saying that to be demeaning in any way. I'm just
18:17
Speaker 2: saying is that sometimes there's there's steps that you have
18:20
Speaker 2: to take to get to that point, especially with a
18:23
Speaker 2: young player who, as Duff just said, missed some time,
18:26
Speaker 2: you know, just recently. I mean, and you know, two
18:29
Speaker 2: weeks of time for a rookie can be the difference
18:32
Speaker 2: of being ready to play or not quite ready to
18:35
Speaker 2: play on all packages, you know. I mean, so, maybe
18:39
Speaker 2: there's going to be a package on defense that he'll
18:41
Speaker 2: be specific too, and maybe a package on offense that
18:44
Speaker 2: will be specific to. When I say package, you know,
18:47
Speaker 2: like personnel groupings, whether it be nickel on defense or
18:50
Speaker 2: three wides on offense or something of that nature.
18:53
Speaker 1: Well, to see how it goes, and it could change
18:55
Speaker 1: week to week depending on the opponent too.
18:57
Speaker 2: You know, I've listened to Dave Canalis and his press
19:01
Speaker 2: conferences everywhere, and he's been asked the question about Travis Hunter,
19:06
Speaker 2: but he never really gave any indication as like, oh
19:08
Speaker 2: my god, we don't know what to do. You know,
19:11
Speaker 2: we're really worried about it. He didn't have any of
19:13
Speaker 2: that attitude. It was like, you know, he's a good
19:15
Speaker 2: player and very successful in college.
19:18
Speaker 3: You hope they do have that attitude though. You hope
19:20
Speaker 3: that they're focused on him and they're too myopic on
19:24
Speaker 3: him and they lose the big picture or the rest
19:26
Speaker 3: of it. So hopefully that'll be a little bit of
19:28
Speaker 3: a decoy or distraction for.
19:29
Speaker 1: Him and Travis Hunter today in the locker room didn't
19:32
Speaker 1: have a whole lot to say about He's been relatively
19:34
Speaker 1: quiet in the media at least.
19:36
Speaker 4: Well.
19:36
Speaker 2: I think you get to a point where you get
19:39
Speaker 2: tired of answering questions and you just want to let
19:42
Speaker 2: your play speak for what you are, you know, and
19:46
Speaker 2: there's been so many different people that have had opinions
19:49
Speaker 2: on him or whether he can do it, whether he
19:51
Speaker 2: can't do it, you know, is it something that the
19:53
Speaker 2: team should do. I'm sure he's tired of all of
19:56
Speaker 2: that talk, because you know, all he knows is that
19:58
Speaker 2: he played two ways and it wasn't a big deal
20:00
Speaker 2: for him at college, you know. So he's probably of
20:02
Speaker 2: the attitude that I don't understand what the hoopla is
20:05
Speaker 2: all about. I did it before, I'm going to do
20:07
Speaker 2: it again, and let's roll the ball out and play.
20:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure the coaching staff is going to play
20:12
Speaker 3: him in position, like Jeff has mentioned, the best way
20:16
Speaker 3: to win the game, whatever that is, whatever that formula is,
20:19
Speaker 3: put him in there and let's do that to win
20:21
Speaker 3: the game.
20:22
Speaker 1: Marked after with this former Jags linebackers coach, a long
20:25
Speaker 1: time assistant in the National Football League, Let's take a
20:29
Speaker 1: look at the Carolina defense. Now, they finished thirty second
20:33
Speaker 1: in the NFL overall last year. What's different about them now?
20:38
Speaker 1: Why was that the case last season? And where can
20:41
Speaker 1: they take some steps in progress? And where can this
20:44
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense attack them?
20:45
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, JP, they were probably the most
20:47
Speaker 3: they suffered the most injuries on that defensive side of
20:50
Speaker 3: any team in the league. In fact, they played more
20:53
Speaker 3: players in games last year than any team, so they
20:57
Speaker 3: had a rolling situation in terms of who was playing,
21:00
Speaker 3: and so I think that was a big factor. Form
21:04
Speaker 3: They're a team that as far as they added some
21:08
Speaker 3: personnel players. They brought in Derek Weller number one. Derek Brown,
21:12
Speaker 3: who's been a Pro Bowl player for him is back
21:13
Speaker 3: in health. He's missed like sixteen games last year. Big plot,
21:17
Speaker 3: big minus. They've added defensive lineman Wharton Bob Brown. They
21:22
Speaker 3: addressed that they added a safety Mooring Trevor Moore, Trevor
21:27
Speaker 3: Treyvon Mooring, who's a real hitter for him. Uh, you know.
21:30
Speaker 3: They've added a couple more guys, Pat Jones as an
21:32
Speaker 3: outside backer. So they went out and got players to
21:35
Speaker 3: help that that defense from both the front linebacker with
21:39
Speaker 3: Rose Broom in the back end with the safety. And
21:41
Speaker 3: so that's where they've gone there. And of course they've also
21:43
Speaker 3: got a heck of a corner in this j C. Horn,
21:45
Speaker 3: who was a Pro Bowl player. They yeah, and he
21:48
Speaker 3: is a heck of a good player money yeah, big,
21:51
Speaker 3: but in a big player, I mean, so you can
21:53
Speaker 3: look at him being a heck of a player. What
21:55
Speaker 3: they're doing I think defensively is they're pretty they're pretty
21:58
Speaker 3: conservative a little bit watching their team this year, they're
22:01
Speaker 3: a team that will operate out of a three deep
22:05
Speaker 3: look or of safety in the middle of the field
22:07
Speaker 3: of one safety high if you will, in the middle.
22:10
Speaker 3: About seventy five percent of the time. They do play
22:13
Speaker 3: some too deep, too deep safeties and two hard corners,
22:16
Speaker 3: so you know that's about twenty percent of the time,
22:19
Speaker 3: and then they pressure a little bit in less than problem.
22:22
Speaker 3: They're in the back end of the league in terms
22:24
Speaker 3: of blitz and pressure. Now they will operate with zone pressures,
22:28
Speaker 3: fire zones. You know, Don was part of that Pittsburgh
22:30
Speaker 3: group dicklo Bow and then where that was a big deal.
22:33
Speaker 3: When I mean by his zone pressures, they'll rush the
22:35
Speaker 3: extra guy five guys and play a zone concept behind
22:38
Speaker 3: it or a zone replacement. They may bring the nickel
22:41
Speaker 3: or the strong safety and dropping a linebacker or a
22:44
Speaker 3: defensive end. So then mix that up a little bit.
22:46
Speaker 3: But they're more, you know, I think, trying to be
22:50
Speaker 3: sound as much as they possibly can and get people
22:53
Speaker 3: to the ball.
22:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, the biggest thing that they have going for them
22:56
Speaker 2: is the return of Derek Brown. He's the big body
23:02
Speaker 2: in the middle. And I would state the case that
23:06
Speaker 2: you go back to two years ago and you watched
23:09
Speaker 2: him play, and that was I think they were on
23:12
Speaker 2: the Jaguars schedule that year. So we got to kind
23:14
Speaker 2: of watch him, and I saw a lot of film
23:15
Speaker 2: on him at that time. I thought I thought at
23:18
Speaker 2: that point he was the most dominant run defender defensive
23:21
Speaker 2: tackle in the league. I'm talking about going back to
23:24
Speaker 2: the Stroud Henderson days. I mean, this guy's just super
23:28
Speaker 2: super strong. I mean, not a super dominant pass rusher,
23:32
Speaker 2: but a very good pass rusher. But his play against
23:34
Speaker 2: the running was one of the big reasons why they
23:36
Speaker 2: were the worst team in the league against the run
23:39
Speaker 2: last year. And if I'm the Jaguars and we know
23:41
Speaker 2: what Liam Cohn wants to do, he wants to run
23:43
Speaker 2: the ball, well, Carolina Panthers were dead last in the
23:46
Speaker 2: league stopping the run. So I think that you're gonna
23:49
Speaker 2: see a lot of that and just another little thing here.
23:52
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you're talking about two bottom of the
23:55
Speaker 2: barrel defenses from last year. You know, the Jaguars were
23:58
Speaker 2: second worst, Carolina was the worst. I mean, just two
24:02
Speaker 2: bad defenses. And so who's going to get better? Yeah,
24:05
Speaker 2: you know who's going to be better. I think that's
24:07
Speaker 2: a big battle in this game. There's a battle of
24:10
Speaker 2: defenses to see which one can take that step to
24:12
Speaker 2: get out of that bottom of the barrel.
24:15
Speaker 3: No question.
24:16
Speaker 2: It was a struggle both sides. Well, I mean in
24:18
Speaker 2: different ways. I mean, look, Carolina, you know when you
24:21
Speaker 2: give up the run yards that they gave up, And
24:23
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that was doing part because
24:25
Speaker 2: teams were a little conservative against them, knowing that they
24:29
Speaker 2: weren't going to score a lot of points with a
24:30
Speaker 2: quarterback who wasn't playing very well for the most part
24:33
Speaker 2: of the season last year. So I think as an
24:36
Speaker 2: opponent to them, you're more apt to stick with a run,
24:39
Speaker 2: be conservative, don't beat yourself kind of attitude. And look,
24:43
Speaker 2: the Jaguars defense last year was just horrendous at giving
24:46
Speaker 2: up explosive play, So you know, I think that that's
24:49
Speaker 2: going to be something to watch. Or the Carolina Panthers
24:51
Speaker 2: going to be bad against the run this year? And
24:53
Speaker 2: are the Jaguars defense going to fix their explosive play
24:57
Speaker 2: issues that they had from last year.
24:59
Speaker 1: We'll find out Sunday at one o'clock. Well, I guess
25:02
Speaker 1: at four o'clock, when the game's over is when we'll
25:04
Speaker 1: really find out. Well, you'll start to see some real
25:07
Speaker 1: positive at one o'clock. Carry it through the three hours,
25:11
Speaker 1: that'd be great. Mark Duffner three keys for a Jaguars
25:15
Speaker 1: victory against the Panthers.
25:16
Speaker 3: What you got well, First and foremost, I think we
25:18
Speaker 3: got to win the line of scrimmage on both sides
25:20
Speaker 3: of the ball. We've been kind of talking about that,
25:22
Speaker 3: whether it's stopping the run or establishing the run. I
25:25
Speaker 3: think that's got to happen. We got to win the
25:26
Speaker 3: one on ones when they present themselves both in run
25:30
Speaker 3: in pass situations. The next thing I would say to
25:32
Speaker 3: you is we got to win first down. If you
25:35
Speaker 3: want to win third down and put yourself in good
25:38
Speaker 3: positions to rush or have the ability to move the
25:41
Speaker 3: chains on offense, you've got to win first down. So
25:44
Speaker 3: that's going to be a critical component in the ball game,
25:46
Speaker 3: I think from an ext and no standpoint. And then
25:48
Speaker 3: I think we've got to win the takeaway battle. We
25:50
Speaker 3: got to protect the football and we got to get
25:52
Speaker 3: the ball back.
25:53
Speaker 2: You know.
25:53
Speaker 3: I think if we get those situations where again we
25:56
Speaker 3: can operate that way, we'll handle the unsci added looks,
26:00
Speaker 3: We'll be able to make I think the in scout
26:02
Speaker 3: in game adjustments that the coaches are anticipating, we get
26:06
Speaker 3: those and away we go. So I'm excited about seeing
26:09
Speaker 3: all this come to fruition.
26:10
Speaker 1: You got a lot more notes on your seat there,
26:12
Speaker 1: but that's three big ones.
26:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, you cut me down, and I got a few more,
26:16
Speaker 3: but I'll cut it down three.
26:17
Speaker 2: I think it'd be really interesting too, from the standpoint
26:19
Speaker 2: of do you keep things a little bit simple in
26:23
Speaker 2: week one, just you know, just to get ready for
26:27
Speaker 2: maybe something that you're not sure that you see, whether
26:30
Speaker 2: it be from the offensive standpoint or the defensive standpoint.
26:33
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be very interesting. Our coach
26:36
Speaker 2: is more apt to keep things a little bit simple
26:40
Speaker 2: in week one.
26:41
Speaker 3: Because of that absolutely, Jeff, And I think you remember
26:44
Speaker 3: that from when you were playing. I mean, uh, you
26:46
Speaker 3: know the whole focus here early on in the middle
26:50
Speaker 3: of training camp, alignment, assignment adjustment. I mean, especially when
26:54
Speaker 3: you're when it is going to be a lot of
26:56
Speaker 3: unscattered looks, flip. I mean doing that where your guys
26:59
Speaker 3: are confident. You want to see confident play, decisive play right,
27:03
Speaker 3: which is now going to equal strain, physicality and finish
27:07
Speaker 3: all the things everybody talks about. How do you get there?
27:10
Speaker 3: You get there by keeping it simple and letting them play.
27:12
Speaker 2: The hardest thing for me as a player was coming
27:15
Speaker 2: out of the preseason and you maybe had at most
27:18
Speaker 2: This is even going back to where you know, the
27:21
Speaker 2: players aren't even getting this many in nowadays. But you
27:24
Speaker 2: might have a game where you play twenty three, twenty
27:27
Speaker 2: four snaps in a game, and now all of a sudden,
27:30
Speaker 2: you're getting ready to play a game where you you
27:32
Speaker 2: know you might end up getting sixty five or seventy.
27:35
Speaker 2: Is getting ready for that challenge of Okay, I know
27:40
Speaker 2: I'm going to be tired. I know I'm going to
27:42
Speaker 2: be winded. But to be able to suck it up
27:44
Speaker 2: and especially with what can be a very hot day,
27:49
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be key. And then the other
27:51
Speaker 2: thing too is I'm going to go back to last
27:52
Speaker 2: year because you know, in the preseason you don't ever
27:55
Speaker 2: really face adversity. You don't because I mean the wins
27:58
Speaker 2: and losses it doesn't matter. Well, now it starts to count,
28:02
Speaker 2: you know, and decisions that are made matter, you know,
28:05
Speaker 2: and can you handle the adversity in a game? You
28:07
Speaker 2: go back to last year when the Jaguars went down
28:09
Speaker 2: to Miami, you had one moment of adversity and you shriveled.
28:13
Speaker 2: You know, can you handle the adversity in the game,
28:15
Speaker 2: whatever that is, whether it's a giveaway, whether it's a
28:18
Speaker 2: negative play, whether it's a penalty, whether it's a bad
28:22
Speaker 2: call that doesn't go your way, how do you handle
28:24
Speaker 2: that as a coach and as a player. And that's
28:26
Speaker 2: going to be key.
28:27
Speaker 3: And I would suspect that the coaches have addressed just
28:30
Speaker 3: what you're talking about, because I think that from what
28:32
Speaker 3: I've heard, that was a little bit of an issue
28:34
Speaker 3: last year here and it is for every team really, Yeah,
28:36
Speaker 3: and you never know how you're going to respond to it. Well,
28:38
Speaker 3: you can talk about it, but you've got to practice it.
28:40
Speaker 3: You've got to put them in situations where you have
28:43
Speaker 3: sudden change or where a penalty moves us back, or
28:47
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. You've got to practice though,
28:50
Speaker 3: so they go through them. It can't it's got to
28:51
Speaker 3: be more than lip service. And so I but still
28:54
Speaker 3: nothing replaces the game setting.
28:56
Speaker 2: I got one more forward. It was more than a
28:58
Speaker 2: little bit of an issue by the way, last year,
28:59
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Anthony Campanelli making his debut as a
29:05
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. Okay, got a head coach, also making his
29:09
Speaker 2: debut as a head coach, but specifically about Campanelli. What's
29:14
Speaker 2: this first game like to where you're behind the console,
29:19
Speaker 2: so to speak, and you're the one making the play calls.
29:22
Speaker 2: You're the one running the show. How big of a
29:25
Speaker 2: challenge is that to go from not doing that as
29:29
Speaker 2: a positional coach to being the man.
29:32
Speaker 3: It's a it's a big one, you know. And thank
29:34
Speaker 3: god he had a couple of preseason games, these preseason
29:37
Speaker 3: games to go through that, and then also where they
29:39
Speaker 3: had moved the ball in practice where he had to
29:41
Speaker 3: make calls. Repetition cannot be underscored. You've you've got to
29:46
Speaker 3: rep these things. You've got to get the experience. And
29:48
Speaker 3: so again, Dove Taylan, what you said earlier about trying
29:51
Speaker 3: to keep it down. I think the players will play
29:55
Speaker 3: faster if he does it. He'll call the game faster.
29:57
Speaker 3: If he has us, he'll be more confident in the
29:59
Speaker 3: call he's gonna make. I bet I'm suggesting that he's
30:02
Speaker 3: already met with the defensive players today and maybe even tomorrow,
30:07
Speaker 3: going over the game plan, and if there's any gray,
30:09
Speaker 3: it's out, throw it out of the game plan so
30:11
Speaker 3: they can play. It's nice. I like this thought. I
30:14
Speaker 3: like that thought. If it's too much. It's out play fast.
30:18
Speaker 1: Coach will talk to you again next week. Appreciate the
30:21
Speaker 1: time as always in the insights, sir.
30:22
Speaker 3: Well, I look forward to it and again I've had
30:24
Speaker 3: a blast. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: There's always a lot to learn, you know, throughout the
30:51
Speaker 5: course of the season, really figure out who you are,
30:54
Speaker 5: what you really do well, and who does what well.
30:57
Speaker 5: And I think most NFL coaches are As the season progresses,
31:01
Speaker 5: you're continually learning and evaluating. But we like what we've
31:05
Speaker 5: learned at this point, you know, just looking back at
31:08
Speaker 5: it in retrospect from the spring till now, the guys
31:11
Speaker 5: have done a really good job. So yeah, but always
31:14
Speaker 5: always learning and evaluating.
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Speaker 1: He's guts for sure, that is Anthony Cavanelli, the Jaguars
31:20
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Earlier today the full press conference at Jaguars
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31:48
Speaker 1: from duff on each week's matchup.
31:51
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to that. I love I love hearing
31:53
Speaker 2: the coaching perspective, you know, because for me it's it's
31:57
Speaker 2: very interesting. And you know, I mean he's been in
32:00
Speaker 2: that business for a long time. I mean, if anybody
32:02
Speaker 2: knows it through and through, it'd be it'd be tough.
32:05
Speaker 1: From messaging from the top to defensive coordinating to.
32:09
Speaker 2: Was I was kind of checking when we were you know,
32:12
Speaker 2: he's talking about their quarterback Bryce Young and you know
32:15
Speaker 2: he's given them some credit and and uh and you know,
32:18
Speaker 2: and that's what coaches do. I mean, but the reality
32:21
Speaker 2: is is that Bryce Young is one of the bottom
32:25
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the league, you know, and and hasn't been
32:29
Speaker 2: very good. And for that matter, I think if you
32:32
Speaker 2: were in Carolina you'd be looking at Trevor Lawrence recently
32:35
Speaker 2: is not a very good quarterback because if you look
32:39
Speaker 2: at his numbers, the recent numbers, they're not great, you know,
32:43
Speaker 2: wins and losses. Last year, didn't have a very good season.
32:47
Speaker 2: His passing completion percentage, all of those things have have
32:51
Speaker 2: waned off, you know. So this is a big year
32:54
Speaker 2: for Trevor. This is a big week for Trevor, you know.
32:56
Speaker 2: And and the Trevor if you look at the the
33:00
Speaker 2: three years that he had the last three years, and
33:03
Speaker 2: that's Underdoug twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, there was
33:08
Speaker 2: there was a slide in performance and a lot of
33:12
Speaker 2: that had to do with injury. And you know, we
33:14
Speaker 2: kind of forget about the injuries that he had last year, shoulder,
33:19
Speaker 2: concussions and those things really oh absolutely to me. The
33:23
Speaker 2: year before ankle, I guess it was and can can
33:27
Speaker 2: he rebound to get back to that form that he
33:30
Speaker 2: had back in twenty twenty two, which in the second
33:33
Speaker 2: half of twenty two going into the playoffs against the
33:37
Speaker 2: Chargers and that amazing comeback, I mean was we were like, wow,
33:43
Speaker 2: here we go, franchise quarterback, right, And then the last
33:46
Speaker 2: two years it's been like is he a franchise quarterback?
33:52
Speaker 2: So well, I mean, look, I mean that's kind of
33:53
Speaker 2: part of the deal, you know, it's part of the deal.
33:56
Speaker 2: Jordan Love got paid franchise money and hadn't really had
33:59
Speaker 2: a lot on his resume yet, and so the most
34:04
Speaker 2: important thing, you know. And it's great to talk about
34:06
Speaker 2: Travis Hunter and coaching and bad defenses and all of
34:09
Speaker 2: that stuff too, but this game comes down to the quarterbacks.
34:12
Speaker 2: Just like we're talking a lot about Bryce Young, there's
34:15
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about Trevor Lawrence this year and
34:17
Speaker 2: going into this game.
34:18
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see his confidence level in the offensive
34:22
Speaker 1: line he said it's there in his press conference the
34:24
Speaker 1: other day, and how that helps him play in the
34:28
Speaker 1: progression with his footwork like it should be and hopefully
34:32
Speaker 1: doesn't revert back to some of the old habits which
34:34
Speaker 1: we saw in the practice at Miami the other week.
34:37
Speaker 2: Little that stuff popped up.
34:38
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what they've been working on all
34:41
Speaker 1: offseason with him. Footwork, progression, new offense come to life well,
34:45
Speaker 1: and we.
34:46
Speaker 2: Kind of our expectations. You know. The first thing you
34:50
Speaker 2: do is you go back and you look at what
34:52
Speaker 2: Liam was able to do for Baker Mayfield, right, and
34:55
Speaker 2: Baker had a career year, which oh, by the way,
34:57
Speaker 2: he had a career year before that under the head
34:59
Speaker 2: coach of the Carolina Panthers, Dave Canalis. Well, Liam took
35:03
Speaker 2: it to another level last year. And so I think
35:06
Speaker 2: all of our hope and expectation is is that we
35:09
Speaker 2: want Liam Cohen to do for Trevor Lawrence what he
35:13
Speaker 2: was able to do for Baker Mayfield and to really
35:17
Speaker 2: dial him in as a quarterback. And you hope that
35:19
Speaker 2: that happens. And I think it starts with taking a
35:22
Speaker 2: little bit of pressure off of the quarterback position, and
35:25
Speaker 2: that's establishing a running game, because that makes any quarterback
35:29
Speaker 2: better no matter what else you do. Time now for
35:33
Speaker 2: the Jaguars defensive coverage of the game presented by GEH
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35:41
Speaker 2: and we take a look at the comparison between these
35:43
Speaker 2: defenses a year ago and cover your ears. It is ugly,
35:48
Speaker 2: it's not pretty.
35:49
Speaker 1: Panthers were thirty second in total defense, the Jaguars thirty first,
35:53
Speaker 1: the Panthers thirty second. In rush defense, the Jaguars twenty fifth.
35:57
Speaker 1: Jags were last in past defense line of twenty third
36:01
Speaker 1: third downs. Jags are twenty fifth in the league. Panthers
36:04
Speaker 1: are thirty second, that's last. And the Jaguars had only
36:08
Speaker 1: nine takeaways nine nine That takeaways thirty second last in
36:14
Speaker 1: the league. The Panthers were tied for twentieth was seventeen.
36:17
Speaker 1: That's still not good either. Now, so hopefully the Jaguars
36:21
Speaker 1: group will improve their numbers starting this week.
36:24
Speaker 2: I mean, I think both sides are expecting big improvement
36:27
Speaker 2: and which side gets it. Hopefully the Jaguars get it
36:30
Speaker 2: on Sunday against Carolina at home. But you know, this
36:34
Speaker 2: defense has got a lot of work to put in,
36:36
Speaker 2: you know, and there's a lot of pieces that are new,
36:40
Speaker 2: and then some of them, you know, Eric Armstead, Mason Smith,
36:43
Speaker 2: you know, have not really been available or been showing
36:48
Speaker 2: you the production or the possibility of being good because
36:52
Speaker 2: they've been injured and out of the lineup. So a
36:54
Speaker 2: lot of those things we don't know, and what's the
36:55
Speaker 2: role of Travis Hunter in that whole scenario? You know,
36:59
Speaker 2: you just don't know a lot of a lot of unknowns.
37:02
Speaker 1: And then let's see up front, right, Eric Harmstead moving
37:05
Speaker 1: inside back to where he kind of made his bones
37:08
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, is going to work out.
37:12
Speaker 2: Look, I think I think Eric can have a huge
37:15
Speaker 2: impact on the game. I do. I think he's still
37:18
Speaker 2: got a lot of talent. Now, how much fuel does
37:23
Speaker 2: he have left in the tank? I think we're going
37:25
Speaker 2: to find that out. But one of the things that
37:28
Speaker 2: I think there's no question of is that he's got
37:30
Speaker 2: the length and strength to be a player that has
37:33
Speaker 2: an impact on the game. Well, you have to rotate
37:37
Speaker 2: him a little bit and limit his exposure. I think
37:40
Speaker 2: you probably will. And who's that next guy up? You know.
37:44
Speaker 2: I like the fact that they went out and they've
37:46
Speaker 2: got two veterans in the off season or should I
37:50
Speaker 2: say during the training camp, because Austin Johnson was one
37:52
Speaker 2: of them, and then Colin Sunders was the other one,
37:55
Speaker 2: and these are two very good backup players. I like
37:59
Speaker 2: the fact that they recognized. I don't want to say
38:03
Speaker 2: an issue because there's no games to say. It's an
38:06
Speaker 2: issue yet, but they recognized maybe an area that they
38:09
Speaker 2: needed to shore up, and then they took the steps
38:12
Speaker 2: to do that. So I give James Gladstone a lot
38:16
Speaker 2: of credit in that department because a lot of a
38:18
Speaker 2: lot of times, you know, And if the general manager
38:21
Speaker 2: were in place from last year, he probably would have
38:23
Speaker 2: stood pat because he had some draft picks there and
38:26
Speaker 2: would have just said, you know, no, we're good, we're good,
38:28
Speaker 2: but in reality you're not, and you got to get better,
38:31
Speaker 2: and they did. So. I appreciate that.
38:33
Speaker 1: We're about fifteen minutes away from William Cohen's show, but
38:37
Speaker 1: James Gladstone, Tony Basseli's slated to be back with us
38:40
Speaker 1: tonight and they've got some splaining to do about the future.
38:43
Speaker 2: We'll let you handle that line of work hour.
38:47
Speaker 1: Some changes on the horizon were told, Okay, we'll find
38:51
Speaker 1: out at five o'clock.
38:52
Speaker 2: I'm most like that. It's the Liam Cohne show right
38:54
Speaker 2: next right, Yeah, for the time being. Okay, I'm told
38:59
Speaker 2: there could be some changes. All right, we'll find out.
39:02
Speaker 2: I'm ready to I'm ready to adapt and adjust.
39:05
Speaker 1: As Blake Wortles once said famously, I just work here.
39:10
Speaker 2: So we'll find out at five o'clock. All right, Tony
39:13
Speaker 2: has to say I'm good with that. Okay, I'm good
39:15
Speaker 2: with that. Yeah. By the way, I just wanted to
39:19
Speaker 2: send UH. This is it's kind of a side note here. Uh,
39:22
Speaker 2: congratulations to all the Jaguar captains, the team captains, UH
39:28
Speaker 2: and UH and two guys really in particular, Robert Hainsey
39:32
Speaker 2: and Jordan Lewis. It's it's very hard and sometimes people
39:36
Speaker 2: kind of just take this for granted as fans. You
39:38
Speaker 2: don't really realize the importance of this. It's very hard
39:43
Speaker 2: to come from the outside into a new locker room
39:46
Speaker 2: and to garner respect in a quick fashion in a
39:50
Speaker 2: locker room to the point where your peers elect you
39:52
Speaker 2: a team captain. And in credit to James Gladstone, Liam
39:58
Speaker 2: Cohn and Tony Boselli for in the kind of people
40:02
Speaker 2: that can that can have that type of influence on
40:05
Speaker 2: their peers in the locker room to be voted captain.
40:08
Speaker 2: So there's kind of two congratulations here. One is congratulations
40:12
Speaker 2: of James and Liam and Tony for bringing in the tangible,
40:16
Speaker 2: intangibly rich people. And then also to the individuals that
40:20
Speaker 2: God elected team captains and not just those two guys,
40:23
Speaker 2: but everybody across the board that got elected team captains.
40:26
Speaker 2: That's a that's an honor, that's a very high honor.
40:30
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40:43
Speaker 1: thoughts when we returned that at five o'clock.
40:45
Speaker 2: Yes, the Liam Cohen.
40:46
Speaker 1: Show, but Boselli and Gladstone back in the studio. This
40:50
Speaker 1: is Jaguars Happy hour.
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Speaker 6: So they've responded to challenges thus far that I've been
41:01
Speaker 6: proud of, you know, kind of everything that we've asked
41:04
Speaker 6: them to do in so many ways, they've really worked
41:07
Speaker 6: their tails off the do, which we've all appreciated as coaches.
41:11
Speaker 6: Is it, you know, the finished final product that we're
41:14
Speaker 6: all hunting up. No, it's not, but that's the beauty
41:17
Speaker 6: of it. But I do think that it's a it's
41:19
Speaker 6: a group that understands that they have an opportunity to improve,
41:24
Speaker 6: that we all have an opportunity to improve and you know,
41:28
Speaker 6: improve our play style and the way that we finished,
41:30
Speaker 6: the way that we play the game. I've been pleased
41:33
Speaker 6: with their response to that. How we handle a turnover
41:37
Speaker 6: or a touchdown you know, given up, or a fumble like,
41:43
Speaker 6: how we're going to respond You don't truly truly know,
41:46
Speaker 6: but thus far from everything I've seen, I've appreciated their response.
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Speaker 1: Head coach Liam Cohen at the podium. Wednesday is first
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Speaker 1: Wednesday press conference leading into Week one, his.
42:00
Speaker 2: First time as the head coach in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour, JP Shatterck with Jeff Logoman.
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Speaker 1: We're at the Hundai studios of the Miller Electric Center.
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Speaker 1: Ten to XL ninety two point five FN coming up
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Speaker 1: in less than ten minutes, Liam Cohen Show, but Basselli
42:14
Speaker 1: and Gladstone will be back in with us and we'll
42:17
Speaker 1: explain some changes to programming.
42:21
Speaker 2: Anything coming. Okay, I thought they were in charge of football.
42:26
Speaker 1: Maybe Vaselli will be doing the explaining because I don't know.
42:29
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, So we'll find out
42:32
Speaker 1: find out. I'm good with that, so and we'll find out,
42:34
Speaker 1: of course, some more about the football team this week,
42:36
Speaker 1: getting ready for Week one, all that coming up. We'll
42:38
Speaker 1: take advantage of those guys here and it's time now
42:40
Speaker 1: for the injury report presented by uf Health, the proud
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Speaker 1: healthcare partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The latest edition of
42:48
Speaker 1: the injury report came out at four o'clock today for
42:52
Speaker 1: both teams, and it's the same as yesterday. For the Jaguars,
42:56
Speaker 1: nothing new, nothing unexpected. On Terrek Brown the corner with
42:58
Speaker 1: an ankle, Wyatt Mile on the guard with a knee injury.
43:01
Speaker 1: Both have not participated this week. Col Van landon the
43:05
Speaker 1: tackle with a shoulder issue limited both days this week.
43:08
Speaker 1: So everybody else full go. No Travis Hunter on the
43:11
Speaker 1: injury report. Remember he missed it a little bit of
43:13
Speaker 1: time at the end of camp and pre season with
43:15
Speaker 1: an upper body issue. He's back to practice. He's good
43:19
Speaker 1: to go. Ikwanu the tackle though. For the Panthers, he
43:23
Speaker 1: has not participated Wednesday or Thursday with the illness they're
43:27
Speaker 1: calling it. But it's been reported that it's an appendectomy.
43:30
Speaker 2: Is that right? Well, he had an emergency appendectomy and
43:34
Speaker 2: it was nine or ten days ago, and if he
43:39
Speaker 2: hasn't practiced yet, I would be surprised if he plays
43:42
Speaker 2: in the game. There's been some guys that have played
43:45
Speaker 2: within seven days of having that surgery done, and I
43:49
Speaker 2: think his was a laparoscopic I guess, which is I
43:53
Speaker 2: guess minimally invasive. But I didn't know you were a doctor.
43:57
Speaker 2: His dad is a doctor. Did you know that? I
43:59
Speaker 2: did not know. Yeah, Iquana's dad is a doctor. And
44:02
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why that they caught it fairly
44:05
Speaker 2: early is he was telling his dad kind of what
44:07
Speaker 2: was going on, and his dad said, hey, let's get
44:10
Speaker 2: you to the er and find out what's going on.
44:13
Speaker 2: That's not normal. So credit to his dad helping him
44:18
Speaker 2: catch it early.
44:18
Speaker 1: You know, heinz Allen's two and a half secks away
44:21
Speaker 1: from the franchise record.
44:22
Speaker 2: Pretty cool. It owns the franchise record, by the way,
44:25
Speaker 2: brackets t brack.
44:28
Speaker 1: But hey, a tackle who's coming off an appendix or
44:32
Speaker 1: the backup tackle?
44:34
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, And a Quana was a pretty high pick
44:38
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. And I remember watching his
44:40
Speaker 2: college film. I thought he was going to be a
44:42
Speaker 2: really good player, and he had some moments where he
44:45
Speaker 2: played at NC State that he was just physically dominant,
44:48
Speaker 2: I mean, like a man among boys. And I don't
44:51
Speaker 2: think his level of play for the Carolina Panthers has
44:56
Speaker 2: has reached that level. I think of expectation the day
45:00
Speaker 2: have attached to him, or that I had attached to him,
45:04
Speaker 2: And I don't know who's gonna end up playing in
45:06
Speaker 2: his absence either. Talking about two possibilities Brady Christensen and
45:12
Speaker 2: Josh Nyman, I think is how you pronounce his name?
45:15
Speaker 2: Those two guys, Either one of them could be the
45:18
Speaker 2: starting left tackle if, in fact, i Quanta does not play.
45:21
Speaker 1: Both starting guards are on the injury report as well.
45:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean they're they're what limited is. I
45:27
Speaker 2: don't think it's a big deal. Limited. One has a shoulder,
45:30
Speaker 2: one has like a foot or an ankle. Yes, I
45:34
Speaker 2: think they'll be fine. I'm not worried about them. They're
45:36
Speaker 2: right tackle, moton is pretty good. Centers, Okay, they got
45:41
Speaker 2: a solid you know. Here's the one thing about their
45:42
Speaker 2: offensive line. I think they're almost all of them are
45:46
Speaker 2: returning from last year, which is, uh, you know, that's
45:50
Speaker 2: a big not very common in the NFL to have
45:53
Speaker 2: a whole offensive line group returning.
45:56
Speaker 1: Another corner of de Maury mathis who's deep on the
45:59
Speaker 1: depth chart with the issue limited yesterday did not participate today.
46:03
Speaker 1: In addition, today though Ashawn Robinson, ten year defensive end
46:08
Speaker 1: groin issue was not on the report yesterday, limited today,
46:12
Speaker 1: So that's always eye opening.
46:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime something somebody gets added to it, there's always
46:19
Speaker 2: a little bit of concern. But you know, the big
46:22
Speaker 2: thing is is tomorrow with the you know, the declarations
46:26
Speaker 2: of what who's going to be probable or doubtful whatever.
46:30
Speaker 2: You know, there's only two designations now, right, is that right?
46:33
Speaker 2: They've limited the amount of designations three or four. Yeah,
46:37
Speaker 2: they've limited, So we'll see tomorrow where they're at and
46:40
Speaker 2: then Sunday. You know, the good thing is the Jaguars
46:42
Speaker 2: for the most part, are pretty healthy going into the
46:45
Speaker 2: season opener. That's a real positive.
46:47
Speaker 1: You've got to get to the starting line before you
46:48
Speaker 1: can even think about the rest.
46:50
Speaker 2: Of the season. No, and then you know, unlike I mean,
46:53
Speaker 2: look at the Carolina Panthers. They had Jalen Cocher, a
46:57
Speaker 2: wide receiver that went to ir just recently with a
46:59
Speaker 2: quad in and then they kind of were expecting to
47:02
Speaker 2: have him, and that's one of the reasons why they
47:04
Speaker 2: traded Adam Thielen back to the Vikings where he played
47:07
Speaker 2: at for many years, and all of a sudden they
47:11
Speaker 2: had to scramble a little bit and ended up resigning
47:14
Speaker 2: Hunter Renfro, who's a pretty good player, you know, pretty
47:17
Speaker 2: good player. So he's back in the mix and he'll
47:19
Speaker 2: be in the starting lineup for them.
47:20
Speaker 1: I remember we were at the Senior Bowl and we
47:25
Speaker 1: were covering the Senior Bowl Jaguars dot Com. It was
47:28
Speaker 1: a year Renfro was coming out and I'm walking around.
47:30
Speaker 1: It's the media room, and you know, there's a couple
47:34
Speaker 1: of people talking to this guy. It looks like a
47:36
Speaker 1: who's the scout. I don't see a credential on him. Yeah,
47:40
Speaker 1: and he had like that ball cap on, and he
47:42
Speaker 1: was a little no, it was Renfro.
47:45
Speaker 2: That's him. He's not a big dude. And he had
47:48
Speaker 2: been at Clemson. Clemson guy, yeah, forever, Yeah, Clemson guy.
47:52
Speaker 2: And the pick route to beat Alabama in the championships.
47:54
Speaker 2: So so he didn't make the final fifty three with
47:57
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers and then goes home and his wife,
48:01
Speaker 2: I guess is expecting in the next five months or so,
48:04
Speaker 2: and supposedly that he got some offers to go to
48:09
Speaker 2: other teams. I think forty nine ers were in the mix,
48:12
Speaker 2: and with what he had going on family wise, he
48:16
Speaker 2: just said, you know, it's not really something I want
48:17
Speaker 2: to do. He's kind of hoping that he would be
48:19
Speaker 2: able to get a chance to go back to Carolina
48:22
Speaker 2: under you know, different circumstances, or will be called back.
48:25
Speaker 2: And anyway, they called and it was a pretty cool story.
48:30
Speaker 2: Did you did you hear him talk about it? So
48:33
Speaker 2: he's out there free agent because he got cut, and
48:37
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Dan Morgan, who was the heck
48:39
Speaker 2: of a player for the Carolina Panthers, they're now general manager.
48:43
Speaker 2: Dan Morgan's trying to call him because of the injury
48:46
Speaker 2: that Jalen Coker had and then of course they traded
48:49
Speaker 2: thelan so they're like, we got to get on a
48:52
Speaker 2: renfro back in the mix. They're calling his phone. Well,
48:55
Speaker 2: he was that he's a business partner with some family
48:58
Speaker 2: members in a recycling business. So he's doing a call.
49:01
Speaker 2: Went had to get a trailer and picking up a
49:02
Speaker 2: golf cart from somewhere, and he gave his daughter his
49:05
Speaker 2: phone so she could play blue on it, you know.
49:09
Speaker 2: So she's on her phone playing Bluie and the phone
49:11
Speaker 2: is just like blowing up. People are trying to call him.
49:13
Speaker 2: The GM trying to call him, the head coaches trying
49:16
Speaker 2: to call him, the wide receivers coaches trying to call him,
49:19
Speaker 2: and so anyway, you know, he's just standing right outside
49:21
Speaker 2: the truck, but his daughter just keeps hitting ignore to
49:24
Speaker 2: all these phone calls that are getting you know, young
49:27
Speaker 2: young daughter. I guess. So he gets back in the car,
49:29
Speaker 2: gets his phone and looks at all the miscalls and
49:32
Speaker 2: he's like, honeyway didn't you tell me? He says, I
49:35
Speaker 2: was watching Louie. So anyway, they finally got ahold of him,
49:38
Speaker 2: but I'm sure it was a panic moment there for them.
49:41
Speaker 2: They're thinking maybe that he know, he's ignoring them, you know,
49:44
Speaker 2: doesn't want to come back or something. It's mad that
49:47
Speaker 2: they cut him and then he didn't make the initial
49:50
Speaker 2: fifty three.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars hosts the Panthers this Sunday at one o'clock at
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