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Urban Meyer Show: Tuesday, October 26 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Owning this thing. It's ours. Come on, let's go go
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Speaker 1: Walt County and nine oh four. Let's own this stadium.
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Speaker 1: Make it honist. Welcome to the Urban Meyer showow Former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Jeff Loghaman and J. P. Shadrick discussed the latest
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Speaker 1: Jaguars news with the head coach. The Urban Meyers Show
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Welcome into the Urban Meyer Show j P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jaguars analyst Jeff Loghuman and Jaguars head coach
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer. Coming off the bye week, heading into week
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Speaker 1: number eight, the Jags and the Seattle Seahawks coming up
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Speaker 1: at Louman Field in downtown Seattle, Washington. Well, coach, first off,
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Speaker 1: bye weekend is done. You get the players a number
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Speaker 1: of days off to get refreshed, a little additional work
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Speaker 1: for the Jags coaching staff. What did you get accomplished
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Speaker 1: during the bye week? Well, I've been asked for twenty years,
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Speaker 1: you know one's the right time for bye week and
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Speaker 1: the answer is, whenever it happens. You have no choice
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Speaker 1: over that, and it did come at the right time
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Speaker 1: we had. You know, you've got a lot of decisions
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Speaker 1: to make on bye weeks. What do you do with
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Speaker 1: a team, and we have so much work ahead of us.
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Speaker 1: That we worked and our players. You know, it's amazing
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Speaker 1: what a win does. It's amazing when you think that
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Speaker 1: there's guys in that locker room that that's the first
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Speaker 1: one swings at it, and what a win does for
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Speaker 1: everybody is amazing. And uh, you know, certainly the coaches,
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Speaker 1: but more importantly the players, you know, and they came
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Speaker 1: out to work and we're you know, we're we We
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Speaker 1: also did a lot of self scout, where what's good,
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Speaker 1: what's bad? If you finally got to take a deep
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Speaker 1: breath and let's build on what's good and let's fix
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Speaker 1: what's bad or get away from it. And that's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's what we did. So it was very productive. We
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Speaker 1: went out yesterday and and worked. You know, the one
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Speaker 1: thing we do is and I admire our players for it.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure what everybody else does. I've heard,
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Speaker 1: you know, different themes of off weeks, but we we
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Speaker 1: went to work and the attitudes were off the chain.
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Speaker 1: And you get Miles jack back, you get uh, you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, having a guy like that your leader back,
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Speaker 1: you get the BArch back. Everybody should be healthy, ready
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Speaker 1: to go, and Tyson Campbell as well. So it's very
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Speaker 1: very positive, which might be one of the great benefits
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Speaker 1: of the bye week when it happens, is getting guys back.
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Speaker 1: And I know that you use the term deep dive
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Speaker 1: as far as researching and analyzing your own football team.
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Speaker 1: What did you learn as part of that process. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to give out too much, but I learned.
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Speaker 1: You know, here's a quarterback that started off with a
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Speaker 1: new system and and it took a minute, and he's
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Speaker 1: very productive here to last three or four weeks. Uh
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Speaker 1: three weeks in particular, and they played his best game
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Speaker 1: against the Dolphins and you saw it as as well
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Speaker 1: as the NFL saw, you know, complete that those last
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Speaker 1: two passes to go win the game. And uh so
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Speaker 1: I can't be more pleased with his progress to who
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Speaker 1: he is as a leader. Uh you know, there's two
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Speaker 1: strengths right now, and that is our yards per carry
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Speaker 1: is in the top five in the NFL. I think
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Speaker 1: it's five, might be six. And then also we're in
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Speaker 1: the top five six I believe in the NFL as
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Speaker 1: far as keeping our quarterback up right, keeping people off
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Speaker 1: our quarterback. So that's those are two positive an offense. Defense,
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Speaker 1: we're very good against the rushi and we're not very
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Speaker 1: good against pass. So we're making some adjustments and those
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Speaker 1: are rather obvious, but there's other intricacies involved with that
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Speaker 1: that we were able to dive into. Some of the
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Speaker 1: improvements that that you refer to with your young quarterback.
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Speaker 1: And I'll refer to some numbers here as completion percentage.
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Speaker 1: If you compare the first three weeks with the second
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Speaker 1: three weeks of the six week season. So far, he's
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Speaker 1: been up twelve percentage points there, yards per tempt is
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Speaker 1: up two point four. His rating is up thirty three
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Speaker 1: and a half points. I mean that those are staggering
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Speaker 1: numbers for a young player to make that significant of
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Speaker 1: a jump that early on in his career. Well, you're
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Speaker 1: watching Jeff, and you know this much more than I
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Speaker 1: do with your experience, that the college quarterbacks come the
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Speaker 1: NFL and it's a struggle for most of the time.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there's the outliers that UH really do well.
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Speaker 1: But this year's group, you know Trevor, you have Zach Wilson,
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Speaker 1: you have Trey Lance, you have the code Mat Jones.
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Speaker 1: There's another one um, but you see these guys and
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Speaker 1: they struggle, and then Trevor really did struggle. It was
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Speaker 1: it was very new to him. And now you see
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Speaker 1: the comfort level. He has two quarterback coaches with Bevin
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Speaker 1: uh Sewnenheimer. I believe it done a very good job
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Speaker 1: that trying to It's also we have to force him
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Speaker 1: to be an NFL quarterback because that's gonna be great
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Speaker 1: for his career, but we also want to win games,
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Speaker 1: and how do you do that. Sometimes you have to
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Speaker 1: become uncomfortable as a as the play caller and do
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Speaker 1: what he does well. And that's what I think. I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing some positive returns from that. And I think that
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Speaker 1: you allude to something there that I always thought was
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Speaker 1: very interesting with how you guys would kind of manage
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Speaker 1: a young quarterback. You know, he's a young man that
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Speaker 1: at Clemson he had two d and thirty one rushes
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Speaker 1: in the read option was a big part of the offense,
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Speaker 1: and and he ran the ball a lot and that's
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Speaker 1: what made him kind of the threat that he was
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Speaker 1: at Clemson. But you've kind of resisted some of that,
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Speaker 1: and probably for good reason, because he's gonna stay healthier
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Speaker 1: the more he stays in the pocket. And I just
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Speaker 1: find it very interesting that he's made that big of
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Speaker 1: a jump by not having that comfort zone of the
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Speaker 1: rushing attack to help him along. Yeah, that's uh, that's
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Speaker 1: that was always a little bit of in my hip
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Speaker 1: pocket that you know, he's especially if you're a good
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Speaker 1: runner back there, which Trevor is not a good or
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Speaker 1: an excellent runner. But it's also this is about his longevity.
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Speaker 1: This is about building an organization around him, which we're
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Speaker 1: committed to, and we're doing the right things now. We
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Speaker 1: you know, we've got to play a little better past defense,
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Speaker 1: we gotta be much better on third downs, and much
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Speaker 1: better red zone. That's what we found out and now
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Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, go to work and fix those things. Hey,
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Speaker 1: co German Meyer with us earlier this week, you talked
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Speaker 1: about the reps and practice and needing to really maximize
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Speaker 1: the efficiency of practice reps. Was that something you've you know,
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Speaker 1: as the weeks have gone on the regular season, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we we really need to streamline certain things in practice
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Speaker 1: or is that something you looked at during the bye
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Speaker 1: week and focused on, Well, this is really interesting here
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Speaker 1: that you have just quality people, really quality people as
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Speaker 1: good as i've had in the organizations who have leadership meeting.
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Speaker 1: It's not quite once a week, but about once a week.
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Speaker 1: And and after our deep dive that we did, you know,
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Speaker 1: you find out you have eight drops and you have
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Speaker 1: nine penalties on third downs. Those are seventeen hits that
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Speaker 1: if we can go from the near the bottom the
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Speaker 1: NFL to near the top and more importantly, win games
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Speaker 1: if you just execute those. And so my appeal to
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Speaker 1: our leaders on the team is, we can't extend practice.
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Speaker 1: You're getting into week eight and then you got eleven straight.
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Speaker 1: Just can't do that to the bodies and get them
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Speaker 1: ready to go on Sunday. So the urgency we can't
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Speaker 1: have a penalty during practice, don't We can't allow that.
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Speaker 1: And it's really not it's when the leaders of the
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Speaker 1: team own it about no penalties or no drops, you know.
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Speaker 1: That's that's my appeal to them, saying for us to
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Speaker 1: you know, win those games. I think we would have
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Speaker 1: won one or two more games if we were to
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Speaker 1: just not dropped the ball and not have penalties. That's
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Speaker 1: not a talent issue, that's just a focus issue. I
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Speaker 1: think it interesting that you bring that up, because I mean,
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Speaker 1: third down that's an area that offensively, that's a big
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Speaker 1: area that I'm sure you're focusing and on the improve
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Speaker 1: and that kind of goes into Okay, also, if we
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Speaker 1: convert more third downs, we can get more carries for
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Speaker 1: James Robinson, we can wear out the opponent more, we
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Speaker 1: can keep our defense on the sideline more. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: that that is one of the big focuses for you
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Speaker 1: guys moving forward well all the above, uh, And it's
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Speaker 1: also the way I look at it's a turnover. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you drop a third down pass or you go
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Speaker 1: from third and two to third and seven because someone
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Speaker 1: twitches in the old line or a tight end, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: To me, and you don't execute that third down, that's
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Speaker 1: a turnover. Your defensive jogging on the field. And when
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Speaker 1: we say played great defense, play great defense is all
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Speaker 1: of you know, all units on the team, you know,
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Speaker 1: the offensive line doing their job, the receivers making to play,
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Speaker 1: Trevor making to play, and special teamsmaker or play. So
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Speaker 1: it all is enter intermingled. Uh. And when we play well,
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Speaker 1: when we win, it's because it's you are doing You're
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Speaker 1: executing those big place Urban will come back in just
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Speaker 1: a moment and get a little deeper into the offensive play,
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Speaker 1: especially on the offensive line. We're off and running. It's
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Speaker 1: the Urban Meyer Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Wow,
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Speaker 1: welcome back. The Urban Meyers Show continues along the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Start Credit Union. The Urban Meyers Show continues JP Shadrick
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Speaker 1: with Jeff Lockman and Jaguars head Choch Urban Meyer. Heading
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Speaker 1: into the Week eight matchup at louman Field, Seattle against
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks offensive line, we know a couple of those
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Speaker 1: names that are on I R right now, lender can.
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Speaker 1: First off, what is there an updated timetable for those guys?
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Speaker 1: And secondly the group that that jumped in there two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, now, how do they play in their place? Well,
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Speaker 1: Bartch went in the game and uh, he's he's been
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Speaker 1: very solid to replace A J. Can. A J. Canna
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Speaker 1: believes out for the season and Leonard should be back.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm it's all now. He had an mc
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Speaker 1: L spring and he had a hank high ankle spring
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Speaker 1: and then we're waiting on the high ankle. I just
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Speaker 1: saw him in the training room just now. So very
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Speaker 1: hopeful to get him back pretty soon. But at one
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Speaker 1: point when Barts went down, he had to go to
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Speaker 1: concussion protocol. He had. We had three starters out in
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Speaker 1: the offensive line, and after studying NFL, being in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: usually that's a you're you're not gonna win when you're
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Speaker 1: down three offensive lineman and uh, Will Richardson did a
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Speaker 1: very good job going in there. Did not play great,
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Speaker 1: but played pretty good. He's been he's been our I
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Speaker 1: consider one of the most approved players on our team.
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Speaker 1: He's a swing tackle and he's also a swing guard,
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Speaker 1: a walker. Little is making much improvement as well, so
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Speaker 1: our offense a lot of Like I told you, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you when you invest in a player like Trevor
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Speaker 1: keep him upright. Which were one of the top teams
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Speaker 1: top I should I think it's five or six in
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Speaker 1: the NFL as far as hits on our quarterback and
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Speaker 1: then uh rushing yard per carry, you know we're in
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Speaker 1: the top five, top six in the league. Yeah, number
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Speaker 1: two I think in the in the National Football League
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Speaker 1: and yards p Russia at five point one eight and
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Speaker 1: and your offensive line has done a good job. Tyler Shatley,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're loving having him as a backup. He's
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Speaker 1: one of those guys that you just love to have
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Speaker 1: on your roster. And part of that protection that has
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Speaker 1: happened for Trevor is also Trevor. He has urban in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, just this innatability to have to feel it
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Speaker 1: in the pocket with actual actually look without actually looking
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Speaker 1: at it, and that truly is a rare trade, it is.
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Speaker 1: And it's also he's got the size where he doesn't
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Speaker 1: panic on you know that where Jeff, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, where if you can't see, you know,
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Speaker 1: I've had the smaller quarterbacks and you know, I tell
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Speaker 1: him he's amongst the trees and you can't. You know,
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Speaker 1: you have a six ft six ft one quarterback six
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Speaker 1: ft seven, six ft six tackles and you know it's
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Speaker 1: science tells you can't see. And then what do they do?
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Speaker 1: They start to bail. That's when you get holding penalties,
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Speaker 1: and that's when he gets sacks. He hangs in the
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Speaker 1: pocket when he should and he also apes of pocket
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Speaker 1: when he has to. So he's been that's one you know,
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Speaker 1: for a young player, uh you know, twenty two year
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Speaker 1: old quarterback, that's obviously something he's done very well. One
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Speaker 1: of the things I noticed from the London game from
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Speaker 1: watching the film is that he's done a really good
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Speaker 1: job of what we call off scheduled plays. He's getting
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Speaker 1: out of the pocket and a lot of times when
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Speaker 1: it becomes off schedule, the receivers are working to get
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Speaker 1: open and some of the throws that he had when
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Speaker 1: these plays became off schedule, the wide receivers are kind
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Speaker 1: of sitting and waiting for the ball at times when
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Speaker 1: they should be coming back towards the ball and keeping
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Speaker 1: the window open for the quarterback. Is that's something that
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Speaker 1: has been talked about about coming back attacking the ball.
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Speaker 1: It hasn't. That's something we're working. Uh. You know we
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Speaker 1: yesterday we had practice and we had three or four
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Speaker 1: scripted sc scrambles and that was where the quarterback, you know,
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Speaker 1: no one knows other than the quarterback take the drop
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Speaker 1: and then you know they tell the guy, coach tells
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Speaker 1: the quarterback before the play scramble on this one. And
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Speaker 1: you just work and teach it off the film and
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Speaker 1: you know we should be better at that. It's part
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Speaker 1: of that time on task to a guy like Jamal
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Speaker 1: Agnew hasn't played the position that long, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's something you have to go out and play to
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Speaker 1: really learn. And you talked earlier this week about Agnew's
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Speaker 1: progress at the position and what he could bring to
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Speaker 1: your offense. Yeah, boy, he's when you look at it
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Speaker 1: at the history books of him. When DJ Shark went down,
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Speaker 1: we were not in a good place and Acts as
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Speaker 1: a guy that it was almost second nature because we
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Speaker 1: went after Acts because of his return capability. But he
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Speaker 1: was a corner and he's became a very he's become
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Speaker 1: a very viable wide receiver. He catches in traffic. He's
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Speaker 1: a little man that plays big and he's fast. Who
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Speaker 1: recognized him as being a potential offensive player because, I mean,
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Speaker 1: here's a guy wearing the thirties number. Most people probably
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Speaker 1: thought he was a running back. Who's the one that said, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know what, we should maybe put him on the
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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. I thought, you did know?
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Speaker 1: It was not me? Uh, it was Bevil. It was Bevil.
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Speaker 1: And then obviously san Jay is an excellent fundamental coach
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Speaker 1: and has worked really hard with him. But when we
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Speaker 1: signed him, he they took him at Detroit because Detroit
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Speaker 1: had some injury issues a wide receiver, and here's a
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Speaker 1: guy that played corner in college of small school San Diego,
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Speaker 1: and uh, he's just gotten he's he's much better and
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Speaker 1: much improved than that he wasn't even in the spring.
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Speaker 1: Head coach Erman Meyer with us, let's flip over to
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Speaker 1: the defensive side a little bit now, Urban and you
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Speaker 1: mentioned it just a minute ago. Stopping the run has
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Speaker 1: been really I think that the high point of this
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Speaker 1: defense so far in the season. You've got to maintain
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Speaker 1: it eleven games to go, though that that can be
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Speaker 1: a week to week statistic in the NFL, it certainly can,
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Speaker 1: and uh uh, but that's been consistent for us. What's
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Speaker 1: been inconsistent is the combination of man and zone where
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Speaker 1: we jumped underneath and they're throwing at the top. So
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Speaker 1: we've worked diligently on that. You know, we uh, we're
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Speaker 1: good at third and fourth and short and we're good
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Speaker 1: and third and fourth and long. Well, we're not good
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Speaker 1: at is where a lot of the money's made, and
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Speaker 1: that's third and medium. And that's so we're working a
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Speaker 1: lot on what our players can do. You know, you
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Speaker 1: went into uh the year with thinking you could play
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Speaker 1: a ton of man coverage, and we found out we
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Speaker 1: really couldn't. And so the combination of both is what
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Speaker 1: we're working on now. One thing that significantly improved in
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Speaker 1: London was third quarter defense and then the third quarter differential.
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Speaker 1: Point differential was way out of whack prior to that game.
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Speaker 1: Your defense gets a third quarter shutout, you score seven points,
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Speaker 1: you end up plus seven and the third quarter in
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Speaker 1: London and that obviously had a lot to do with
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Speaker 1: winning the football game. That's certainly a trend you want
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Speaker 1: to keep going. You know, lou holt us all say,
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Speaker 1: the last five minutes of the first half, first five
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Speaker 1: minutes second half really decides the game. And you look
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Speaker 1: at this series, what happened and uh, going back to London,
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Speaker 1: we uh stopped him on defense? Oh no, we stopped
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Speaker 1: got stopped on offense. And I made the decision, almost
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Speaker 1: went for it, but it was fourth and long. We're
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Speaker 1: right outside field goal range. Are punterer's tremendous. We downd
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Speaker 1: it on the two yard line. They throw the ball,
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Speaker 1: then we burned a time out, burned two time outs
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Speaker 1: they put. We get them on the forty nine yard
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Speaker 1: line and in a few players we score touchdown and
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Speaker 1: go in with seven points. And then we come out
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Speaker 1: the second half score in the first drive as this
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Speaker 1: fourteen point swing all because if we down that ball
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Speaker 1: in the two yard line, you almost went for it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I almost went forth. It was it was fourth or long. Yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's all right. I worked out. I like the mindset
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Speaker 1: and the just talking through it there. Let's come back
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Speaker 1: in a moment. We'll look ahead to the Jaguars and
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks coming up in week number eight. This
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Speaker 1: is the Urban Meyers Show on Jaguars Radio. Wow, Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: The Urban Meyers Show continues along the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Urban Meyers Show rolls along JP Shadrick
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Speaker 1: with Jeff Loghman and Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer. The
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Speaker 1: Jags are headed to Seattle, leaving on Friday. Coach will
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Speaker 1: early trip out to the West Coast to see Looman
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Speaker 1: Field and a rowdy environment. You have coached generality environments before,
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Speaker 1: we all know that. But a little a little louder
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Speaker 1: environment than most in the NFL out in Seattle and
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Speaker 1: a challenge for the Jaguars this week. And in terms
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Speaker 1: of the trip, first of all, and then the noise
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Speaker 1: in the environment. Oh, yeah, and the Seahawks have a
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Speaker 1: pretty good football team too. Yeah, they're there. They lost
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Speaker 1: last night to the Saints, but there you watch them
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Speaker 1: in the defensively statistics they're not great, but you watch
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Speaker 1: them and they're big. They're gigantic in the offensive line,
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Speaker 1: defensive line, excuse me. And they have one of the
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Speaker 1: best safeties and Adams and a great linebacker and and
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Speaker 1: uh so you just don't quite see the issues on defense.
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Speaker 1: So but that'll be a challenge. But uh, I've never
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Speaker 1: been in the stadium, but people told me it's it's
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Speaker 1: arguably the loudest or one of the top two or
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Speaker 1: three stadiums in the NFL. The fans are great, and
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Speaker 1: uh obviously the Seahawks are gonna be without Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: and uh general is going to be the quarterback, and um,
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Speaker 1: you know they have to uh we call him blue
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Speaker 1: players or elite players. The two receivers with d K
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Speaker 1: and uh, I'm sorry if you get the other guy
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Speaker 1: to it, lock it tremendous player. Um. So there they
17:14
Speaker 1: have some struggles, but they're also very talented. How how
17:18
Speaker 1: odd was it that you know you got a bye week,
17:20
Speaker 1: which in college football you don't always get the ability
17:24
Speaker 1: as you're heading into a week of planning, et cetera,
17:26
Speaker 1: to be able to turn on the TV and watch
17:28
Speaker 1: the team you're getting ready to play on Monday night football.
17:31
Speaker 1: So did you watch them? And do you have a
17:33
Speaker 1: watch party with the coaches to digest the information that
17:37
Speaker 1: you may hear on the TV. Well, we we game
17:40
Speaker 1: plan last night. We're all here, and we turned it
17:42
Speaker 1: on the corner, and of course you saw the rain
17:44
Speaker 1: and that all sud I see DK Metcalf taking eighty
17:46
Speaker 1: five yards. So I went over and stared at it
17:49
Speaker 1: for a while. Then I went home, and you know, Jeff,
17:51
Speaker 1: the guy's mind and your age, you start falling asleep
17:54
Speaker 1: about ten o'clock, so so I got to see the
17:57
Speaker 1: rest of early five thirty in the morning. I'm with
18:00
Speaker 1: you about halftime, is all. I'm good for Monday night
18:02
Speaker 1: football anymore. If I lived on on the West Coast,
18:05
Speaker 1: I'd probably be better off over the weekend. Though you
18:08
Speaker 1: had mentioned or yesterday, I guess in your press conference
18:11
Speaker 1: that you watched a little football over the weekend NFL
18:14
Speaker 1: college football? Would you watch what's the first time really
18:17
Speaker 1: in my career? And I talked to our ted a
18:19
Speaker 1: little team meeting, and I told him with a passion,
18:21
Speaker 1: I watched the NFL. I've always watched the NFL, but
18:24
Speaker 1: more to watch my former players play. And you know,
18:27
Speaker 1: I text with him all the time. And and uh
18:29
Speaker 1: so I would always be game planning in college because
18:32
Speaker 1: Sundays your game planned day. And I would always have
18:34
Speaker 1: a TV on watch and not necessarily with a passion
18:37
Speaker 1: like I do now. And I watched everything I could
18:38
Speaker 1: get my hands on, and and I just feel so close.
18:41
Speaker 1: That's where I have such admiration for, you know, the
18:44
Speaker 1: guys that are just keep swinging their locker room. And
18:47
Speaker 1: you know, I just I'm not sure I've ever wanted
18:51
Speaker 1: something as bad for an owner and for an area
18:53
Speaker 1: and for a group of players then to get this
18:55
Speaker 1: thing going. You know, you hear people take a shot
18:58
Speaker 1: at Jacksonville. You here, you know, watch our guys play,
19:01
Speaker 1: and I mean we we had arguably one of the
19:03
Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL right now, Phoenix Cardinals, and
19:05
Speaker 1: our guys played their tails off. You know, we just
19:07
Speaker 1: gotta be smart with the ball. We had Cincinnati down
19:10
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing and they're they just uh, beat the heck
19:13
Speaker 1: out of Baltimore. So there's a lot of positives, a
19:16
Speaker 1: lot of momentum. We just gotta just gotta eliminate self
19:19
Speaker 1: afflicted errors and stick together. When you watch these games,
19:23
Speaker 1: can you watch it ever as a true fan or
19:25
Speaker 1: do you always have that coach's mind where you're watching
19:28
Speaker 1: it going They busted the coverage on that when the
19:31
Speaker 1: corner should have done this or the safety should have
19:33
Speaker 1: done that. You know, I've I've tailgated twice. Once were
19:36
Speaker 1: my son's high school game, and I was awful because
19:38
Speaker 1: I don't want enjoy myself. All I'm thinking about as
19:40
Speaker 1: the game, and I did one for a University of
19:42
Speaker 1: Florida Miami game. They invited us down to Orlando, Shelly
19:45
Speaker 1: and I and we went to that and I was like,
19:47
Speaker 1: I see all these people, you know, enjoying themselves. I'm like, man,
19:50
Speaker 1: how can you do this? This game is getting ready
19:52
Speaker 1: to start. You know, I'm used to smashing your face
19:55
Speaker 1: in the locker at the you all get ready to
19:57
Speaker 1: go coach a game or play a game, so it's
20:00
Speaker 1: hard to enjoy it. To answer your question, yeah, no,
20:02
Speaker 1: I totally get it, because sometimes when I watched the game,
20:04
Speaker 1: I'm I'm watching it from the next is a no
20:06
Speaker 1: standpoint and watching the defensive ends and tackles and people
20:09
Speaker 1: are talking and you're like, guys, can you just be quiet?
20:12
Speaker 1: Like when I watch a Super Bowl, I can't. If
20:14
Speaker 1: I can't be at a super Bowl party, I'm like,
20:16
Speaker 1: it's let me have my TV. Leave me a long,
20:18
Speaker 1: keep it down, all right. So Urban, you got eleven
20:21
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks of football ahead. It is a marathon to
20:24
Speaker 1: wrap up the season. But you know, the trend was
20:26
Speaker 1: going up with this team before the bye week. That's
20:28
Speaker 1: a good sign for the next couple of months ahead.
20:30
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a good sign that. First of all,
20:32
Speaker 1: once I brag about our locker room because I'm impressed
20:35
Speaker 1: and I'm proud of these guys that they just keep
20:37
Speaker 1: sticking together. We won that game in London, and it
20:39
Speaker 1: was you know, as you reach the point where you
20:42
Speaker 1: do this so long, all they did a stare at
20:43
Speaker 1: these players eyes and faces and the the guys that
20:46
Speaker 1: have been through a lot, and uh, to win that game.
20:48
Speaker 1: Now you gotta build on it. The reality is we've
20:51
Speaker 1: got a bunch of tough games coming up against some
20:53
Speaker 1: really good teams. But also reality has got to stay healthy.
20:55
Speaker 1: And that's one of the big things I wanted to
20:57
Speaker 1: bring here is the sports reform US model. We've had
21:01
Speaker 1: knock on what we've had injuries, but those are structural.
21:03
Speaker 1: Structural injuries are unavoidable. That's what makes us for the
21:07
Speaker 1: game so tough. You know, the high ankle sprains, the
21:10
Speaker 1: you know, the A C sprains, those those are you
21:13
Speaker 1: can't stop. But the soft tissue injuries. If we take
21:15
Speaker 1: care of our players down this stretch, we gotta stay
21:18
Speaker 1: healthy and I think we will. After coming off of
21:21
Speaker 1: the wind in London, what was the first thing you
21:24
Speaker 1: said to your team to to kind of kind of
21:27
Speaker 1: get them back out of that bye week mindset because
21:29
Speaker 1: sometimes players when they have that bye week there I
21:32
Speaker 1: don't want to say they get laxed, but sometimes their
21:34
Speaker 1: mind can drift a little bit. But now it's time
21:36
Speaker 1: to refocus. Yeah, and in reality is that we allong
21:38
Speaker 1: way to go. And I also shared with them where
21:42
Speaker 1: we're not very good. And the good thing about having
21:45
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're grown. You know, Miles Jack and
21:48
Speaker 1: and uh you know Cam Robinson and James Robinson and
21:52
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones as are grown men and sit in Trevor
21:56
Speaker 1: Trevor's twenty two, but he's he's a grown man, and
21:59
Speaker 1: explain it's really need to coach players that you can
22:02
Speaker 1: have a dialogue with him. This was not me barking
22:04
Speaker 1: at him. It was were saying, here's where we need
22:06
Speaker 1: to work. I need your help in this area for
22:08
Speaker 1: us to be successful. And it was verbatim when I
22:12
Speaker 1: would let them break the team down, that's exactly what
22:14
Speaker 1: was said, and that's what's being done in practice. And
22:16
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really gonna push him hard this week about
22:19
Speaker 1: not not longer practice, you can't do that, but efficiency
22:23
Speaker 1: of practice, no mistakes. Lock in, Urban, thanks for the time.
22:28
Speaker 1: As always, we'll talk to you later in the week.
22:30
Speaker 1: Thank you, head coach Urban Meyer. With us back with
22:32
Speaker 1: more on the Urban Meyer Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
22:41
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Urban Meyer Show continues along the Jaguars
22:45
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Welcome back to Urban Meyers Show, rolling along
22:48
Speaker 1: j P. Shadrick, Jeff Flagerman, head coach Urban Meyer and
22:51
Speaker 1: joining us in the first half hour every week. Bock In.
22:57
Speaker 1: He said, at the end, there walk in, get those
23:00
Speaker 1: practice reps down, don't be don't be you know, you know,
23:04
Speaker 1: losing any practice reps and then you know there's not
23:06
Speaker 1: a lot of time for that. You gotta you make
23:08
Speaker 1: mistakes and practice you're gonna make them in the game. Well,
23:10
Speaker 1: locked in, And the the question I had there about
23:16
Speaker 1: trying to get a team kind of back into that
23:18
Speaker 1: group because you know, when when you're in the season,
23:20
Speaker 1: you get into that that mindset of you just a routine,
23:25
Speaker 1: and then when you have a bye week, all of
23:27
Speaker 1: a sudden, that routine is interrupted, and so you want
23:29
Speaker 1: to be able to make sure that the focus goes
23:32
Speaker 1: back again into the routine and uh, to get the
23:36
Speaker 1: players focused and ready to go again, because I mean
23:39
Speaker 1: it is different. I mean you know, literally you're locked
23:41
Speaker 1: in and then all of a sudden, Okay, I gotta
23:43
Speaker 1: buy a week? What do I do? And then you
23:45
Speaker 1: do something different for a bit. So now you'd like
23:47
Speaker 1: come back and you go, okay, well, well Monday again,
23:50
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta do this. So uh, and it's good.
23:54
Speaker 1: You know the best part about the bye week two
23:55
Speaker 1: is that when you come back physically, you feel a
23:57
Speaker 1: lot better. Yeah, you just you know, even though it's
24:01
Speaker 1: only that's just broadcasters, it's a week off, it's it's
24:04
Speaker 1: great and you know, the body can do amazing things
24:08
Speaker 1: with a week off in the NFL. That's broadcasters as well.
24:14
Speaker 1: So your voice has gotten better. I don't know. I
24:17
Speaker 1: don't know if my habits, but you never know. Um,
24:20
Speaker 1: So West Coast traveling is gonna be interesting though, because
24:23
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of a short week as far
24:25
Speaker 1: as the travel goes. You go from London to here
24:29
Speaker 1: by week to Seattle, I mean that's just too long.
24:32
Speaker 1: And then you've got and going on Friday to Seattle
24:34
Speaker 1: too well, and then you've got an l a trip
24:36
Speaker 1: coming up a couple of weeks. It's a little ways
24:38
Speaker 1: down the line, a month and a half away, somewhere
24:41
Speaker 1: down down the line, and Seattle's a poke. Now. That's
24:44
Speaker 1: as far as you can get really in the Continental
24:46
Speaker 1: Is is Miami Miami to Seattle the longest trips in
24:50
Speaker 1: the NFL and outside of the London games? Yes, yeah,
24:53
Speaker 1: that's what I figured. Yeah, man, that's a long way.
24:58
Speaker 1: Are you? Um? Would you rather go out on a
25:00
Speaker 1: Friday or would you rather go out on a Saturday?
25:03
Speaker 1: This has always been an interesting debate. I know, right,
25:05
Speaker 1: and I think the Jags have done it both ways before.
25:10
Speaker 1: This team has done it many different times, and for me,
25:14
Speaker 1: it's just keep it normal, keep the routine. Go Saturday,
25:18
Speaker 1: you know, be there and wake up and do the thing.
25:21
Speaker 1: And that's what I like. I've never early on um
25:26
Speaker 1: early on, when I say early on, early on in
25:28
Speaker 1: the Jaguars history, Coughlin had the mindset that he wanted
25:31
Speaker 1: to go on Fridays, and we go out there on
25:34
Speaker 1: a Friday and we you know, we do a practice
25:36
Speaker 1: out there, and and uh, I hated it. I hated
25:40
Speaker 1: it because just because again we're creatures of habit. You know,
25:44
Speaker 1: the players are creatures of habit. You know. Okay, Monday
25:47
Speaker 1: as you day. You you do game study and film
25:49
Speaker 1: review and you work out. Tuesday's your day off. Wednesday's
25:53
Speaker 1: your heavy day of practice. Thursday is another, you know,
25:56
Speaker 1: semi heavy day of practice. Friday is a very light
25:58
Speaker 1: day and we're all done early. Body goes home, relax,
26:01
Speaker 1: get rest, spend time with the family. Okay, Saturday home game,
26:06
Speaker 1: we go to the hotel to stay that afternoon. If
26:09
Speaker 1: it's a road game, we get on a plane go. Well, now,
26:12
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you decided to leave on a Friday,
26:14
Speaker 1: And look, and everybody's had success of different ways. But
26:17
Speaker 1: you can leave now on a Friday. It's just it's
26:19
Speaker 1: just different. And I always liked it where you go
26:22
Speaker 1: on a Saturday, just because it keeps the same routine
26:27
Speaker 1: for every game. So I mean, why why should you
26:30
Speaker 1: change it just because you're traveling to the West Coast.
26:32
Speaker 1: I mean, so so you're on a plane longer. But
26:35
Speaker 1: I mean maybe they've done and maybe there are studies
26:38
Speaker 1: that show that it's better to acclimate. And see, I've
26:42
Speaker 1: always been a believer. I don't want to acclimate going
26:44
Speaker 1: to the West Coast because it's just too short of
26:46
Speaker 1: a time to acclimate. It's it's it's like London. When
26:52
Speaker 1: when we first went over there, it was I want
26:56
Speaker 1: to say, we left right after the game on a
26:58
Speaker 1: Sunday sea that was That was a Cincinnati the second year,
27:02
Speaker 1: second year, the first year we were left one there Tuesday,
27:06
Speaker 1: right from a home game. The next year was a
27:08
Speaker 1: road game, left after the game Sunday, got there Monday
27:11
Speaker 1: right and and I didn't like either one of them.
27:13
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden they decided to change
27:14
Speaker 1: to leave on a Thursday. So now you get there
27:16
Speaker 1: and you just you know, it's it's it's real quick
27:18
Speaker 1: and in his game time, it was better just because
27:22
Speaker 1: at least it kept the first part of the week
27:26
Speaker 1: the routine, It kept it the same. You know what
27:28
Speaker 1: could overcome a lot of that. Well, I'm not saying
27:35
Speaker 1: that that from the standpoint of Okay, what's what's gonna
27:38
Speaker 1: help help have a team have success or not. I'm
27:40
Speaker 1: just saying with a team, will they play better or
27:43
Speaker 1: will they play worse if they travel on Friday or
27:45
Speaker 1: will they travel on a Saturday? And I don't know
27:47
Speaker 1: if there's travel on Tuesday, if you wanted to, if
27:49
Speaker 1: you have a better football team, it can travel circumstances.
27:53
Speaker 1: And you're exactly right. But for me personally, I as
27:56
Speaker 1: when I was playing, I wanted to travel on Saturday.
27:59
Speaker 1: I did not want the extra day to go out there.
28:01
Speaker 1: And then because you go out there, and here's why.
28:04
Speaker 1: What I always kind of found is that you travel
28:06
Speaker 1: on a on a Friday, and now you've got time
28:10
Speaker 1: on your hands in a place that what are you
28:13
Speaker 1: gonna do? Well, I mean, there's plenty to do. Was
28:17
Speaker 1: I was always worried that, you know, because there's always
28:20
Speaker 1: a guy, you know that just finds trouble. You were
28:25
Speaker 1: never that guy, though, I mean you were, you know,
28:28
Speaker 1: in bed at nine o'clock. You know, I mean I
28:33
Speaker 1: was in bed a curfew, we had a curfew check
28:36
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I just I just
28:38
Speaker 1: didn't want, I do even't want to have the distraction
28:40
Speaker 1: of some other somebody else getting involved in some kind
28:43
Speaker 1: of trouble. Let's come back in a moment and get
28:47
Speaker 1: into the football team a little bit, a little offensive
28:49
Speaker 1: talk the bye week, we'll talk about what Urban was
28:53
Speaker 1: saying about Trevor. He had a lot of glowing things
28:55
Speaker 1: to say about Trevor, and rightly so, I mean he's um,
28:59
Speaker 1: he is literally, it's it's a this is fun to watch.
29:02
Speaker 1: It's only just begun, well, eleven games to go this year.
29:06
Speaker 1: When I when I say it's fun to watch, JP,
29:09
Speaker 1: we've never seen anything like it. Let's get into it
29:12
Speaker 1: when we come back. It's the Urban Meyer Show on
29:14
Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio. Wow, welcome back. The Urban Meyer Show continues
29:30
Speaker 1: along the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back. Indeed, this is
29:34
Speaker 1: the Urban Meyers Show. I'm JP Shadrick, Jeff Logaman alongside
29:38
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado on the audio, britt Reebru on the video
29:41
Speaker 1: head coach Urban Meyer in the first half hour every Tuesday,
29:45
Speaker 1: and we moved to the offense and Trevor Lawrence, you
29:48
Speaker 1: know the feeling we heard Urban talk about it. You
29:52
Speaker 1: can tell us the weeks have gone along, decisions are
29:55
Speaker 1: getting better. It feels like it just feels better. Um,
29:59
Speaker 1: how much better is it statistically the last two three weeks?
30:03
Speaker 1: Well is it? As I explained with with Urban there
30:07
Speaker 1: the numbers don't lie and uh and I was just
30:11
Speaker 1: showing the improvement when I gave those numbers to Urban,
30:13
Speaker 1: I'm sure which he was aware of it. Here here
30:15
Speaker 1: are the numbers and weeks one to three Trevor had
30:20
Speaker 1: uh five touchdown, seven interceptions, and weeks four to six
30:27
Speaker 1: he had two touchdowns one interception. So essentially what he
30:30
Speaker 1: did is he flipped the touchdown to interception ratio was
30:34
Speaker 1: obviously two to one interceptions plus and then now it's
30:37
Speaker 1: two to one touchdown interception, So that's big improvement. The
30:43
Speaker 1: completion percentage was fifty four point two percent in weeks
30:49
Speaker 1: one to three. Weeks four to six it was sixty
30:51
Speaker 1: six point three percent. Sixty percent. That's pretty good yards
30:55
Speaker 1: per attempt, which is a great measure of a quarterback
31:00
Speaker 1: success because it measures the yards per tempt, not completion.
31:05
Speaker 1: In the first three games it was five point seven
31:09
Speaker 1: yards per tempt and weeks four to six it was
31:12
Speaker 1: eight point one, So that's an improvement of two point
31:16
Speaker 1: four yards per temp. That's that's that's nice. The quarterback rating, yes,
31:21
Speaker 1: which in everything kind of combined into one. It's a
31:24
Speaker 1: tricky little formula. In weeks one to three is rating
31:27
Speaker 1: was a sixty point three, which is terrible. It's not good.
31:30
Speaker 1: That would be worse than the league. In the last
31:34
Speaker 1: three weeks he was a ninety three point eight, which
31:39
Speaker 1: is an improvement of thirty three point five rating points.
31:43
Speaker 1: That's good. I mean, that's that's what you want. I mean,
31:46
Speaker 1: it's are you gonna see the same type of improvements
31:49
Speaker 1: in the next three games. I mean, I'm gonna be great.
31:52
Speaker 1: If you did amazing, it would be uh, something that
31:57
Speaker 1: has never been seen before. But I mean, you still
31:59
Speaker 1: want to have of improvement, but I don't think you'll
32:03
Speaker 1: get it to that extent. But you still want the
32:05
Speaker 1: staircase effective improvement statistically for Trevor Lawrence. But the thing
32:10
Speaker 1: I think that allows him to improve and the thing
32:14
Speaker 1: that has allowed him to improve the performance has been
32:19
Speaker 1: his ability to to have pocket presence. I mean, that's
32:24
Speaker 1: what he was able to do against the Miami Dolphins
32:27
Speaker 1: in London was exceptional. I mean that was that was
32:30
Speaker 1: as good of a display for a quarterback in pocket
32:34
Speaker 1: presence that I've ever seen. I mean, I'm I'm talking ever,
32:39
Speaker 1: ever seen. I mean i mean seriously, forever, ever, ever,
32:45
Speaker 1: like forever, all these superlatives, you know, because he sounds
32:51
Speaker 1: like the Willy Wonka thing, you know, So that's a
32:56
Speaker 1: big statement though, I mean that's I can't just let
32:58
Speaker 1: that go by. I'm not going I don't mean you
33:00
Speaker 1: don't have to let it go by. I mean I'm
33:02
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that to draw attention to anything
33:05
Speaker 1: other than what he is doing is amazing. His pocket
33:10
Speaker 1: presence and his ability because you know a lot of
33:13
Speaker 1: quarterbacks when just give you a quick example, and this is,
33:18
Speaker 1: uh what I showed last week on film if you
33:20
Speaker 1: if you didn't miss it, we we showed the film
33:23
Speaker 1: on Jaguars All Access and then we also showed it
33:25
Speaker 1: on Jaguar's Weekend. You're always good for a plug like this. Well,
33:28
Speaker 1: I'm because I'm just reiterating something that I've already shown,
33:32
Speaker 1: but if you missed it, there was a play that
33:34
Speaker 1: he's got an unblocked defender coming off of his backside,
33:39
Speaker 1: and he realizes that he's unblocked, but he doesn't have
33:42
Speaker 1: to turn his head to see it coming for sure.
33:45
Speaker 1: He just still his eyes are here downfield. Let me
33:49
Speaker 1: turn this. When his eyes are down filled here and
33:50
Speaker 1: the unblocked guys coming from here, and he senses it
33:54
Speaker 1: without looking and then turning and running. He just he
33:57
Speaker 1: reacts and then he moves into poet to buy a
34:00
Speaker 1: few extra moments to get the ball off. And that's
34:04
Speaker 1: that's outstanding. There was another one where you've got an
34:06
Speaker 1: unblocked As he's looking down the field, there's an unblocked
34:09
Speaker 1: nickel blitzer, which we call uh It can be called
34:12
Speaker 1: a bunch of different things. It could beat the fires
34:14
Speaker 1: on it, it it could be a blitz. But this guy
34:15
Speaker 1: is unblocked coming off the outside. So he sees him
34:17
Speaker 1: coming without turning his head again and then knows that
34:21
Speaker 1: this guy is super fast and he's coming with a
34:25
Speaker 1: lot of speed. This is not a defensive end that's
34:27
Speaker 1: running four seven or something. This is a defensive back
34:31
Speaker 1: running four four coming in so what do you do.
34:34
Speaker 1: You know, you have to get on your horse and
34:36
Speaker 1: you gotta go, and you gotta go. And so he
34:39
Speaker 1: takes off and starts I mean literally hauling tail to
34:43
Speaker 1: get out of pocket to the right to buy him
34:46
Speaker 1: some time, to get any to get an opportunity at
34:49
Speaker 1: the completion. And I mean that's to gauge the speed
34:52
Speaker 1: of a defensive back to to know when I've got
34:55
Speaker 1: to leave and what rate of speed I have to
34:56
Speaker 1: leave with to be able to have an opportunity at
35:00
Speaker 1: making something happen. I mean, that's that's those things are.
35:05
Speaker 1: You can't teach that stuff. I mean, it's it's and
35:08
Speaker 1: sometimes you can't teach some of that, but I mean
35:11
Speaker 1: for most of the time, for a quarterback, it's like
35:15
Speaker 1: a running back, and it's in the vision of a
35:18
Speaker 1: running back, like the things that James Robinson does. I'm sorry,
35:21
Speaker 1: but look, you might have a great running backs coach,
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Speaker 1: but that running backs coach didn't teach James Robinson the
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Speaker 1: vision and the ability to plant that foot and go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, coaching matters, but coaching can't teach some of
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Speaker 1: that stuff. And that's the stuff that players either have
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Speaker 1: or they don't. And Trevor has that, well, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get some answers on defense when we come back from you.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask some questions. We're gonna ask me the
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Speaker 1: hard questions. We're gonna get answers out of the hard questions.
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Speaker 1: There's some hard questions on defense these days. For this,
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Speaker 1: I'll give you honest answers all we're looking for. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I got it, and me and my pens are ready.
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Speaker 1: This is the Urban Buyers Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Urban Meyer Show continues along the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Radio Network. Welcome back j P. Shadrick, Jeff Flagerman, head
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Speaker 1: coach Urban Meyer with us in the first half hour
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Speaker 1: every Tuesday, five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network for
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Speaker 1: the Urban Meyer Show. Look to the Defense now logs
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Speaker 1: and Urban earlier this week was talking about, you know
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Speaker 1: all the look at the defense they've done on the
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Speaker 1: bye week, and you know, as the weeks have gone along,
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Speaker 1: they've worked some more zone in there in the secondary.
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Speaker 1: They were more man heavy, if you will, earlier in
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Speaker 1: the year. That seems to have shifted some and Urban
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Speaker 1: actually said that will change moving ahead, what what will
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Speaker 1: that actually look like on Sundays, Well, it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: the mix of zone and run. So like, for example,
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, which is where Joe Cullen comes from
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Speaker 1: most recently. He's been a lot of different places, but
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Speaker 1: that's the scheme that he wanted to bring here. They
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Speaker 1: play a ton of man, and they've got some pretty
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Speaker 1: good corners that they can do that, and they have
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Speaker 1: some good players up front, least historically they have. And
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Speaker 1: so let's say, just to throw some numbers out there
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Speaker 1: without being completely accurate, let's say that they would probably
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Speaker 1: play or want to play, and this is Baltimore somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the range of sevent man zone. Well, the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: because of some of their personnel issues, they're probably flip
37:46
Speaker 1: flopping on that. So they're now they're probably not playing
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Speaker 1: seventy percent zone and maybe only man. Because when you
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Speaker 1: play man, if you have somebody mess up, it can
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Speaker 1: be a big play. And when you play man, you've
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Speaker 1: got to have the guys that can cover. If you
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Speaker 1: don't have the guys that can cover, it's very difficult
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Speaker 1: to have success. And so on the front end, you
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Speaker 1: gotta be able to get the quarterback to to help
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Speaker 1: those guys. I mean that that that goes and that's
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Speaker 1: true for zone or man or anything else. I mean
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Speaker 1: in reality, so that that doesn't really matter. So but
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Speaker 1: you can give up bigger plays and man because you're
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Speaker 1: other people aren't watching the ball at different parts of
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Speaker 1: the field. So and I think that's what it is.
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Speaker 1: And why well, I mean the numbers don't lie. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there're thirty one in the National Football League and passing
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Speaker 1: yards a game, passing yards per game allowed, the posing
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are completing and just give you so give you
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Speaker 1: a little a little bit of an idea. They're allowing
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Speaker 1: a seventy two point nine percent completion rate. Okay, what
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Speaker 1: would that do if if you had that and you
38:54
Speaker 1: were a quarterback in the Nation from you're probably top
38:57
Speaker 1: of the league, you would be you would be in
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Speaker 1: the top three. Russell Wilson is completing of his passes
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Speaker 1: and he is the third rated quarterback in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League and completion percentage. So I mean, I ought
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Speaker 1: to give you an idea of why they're looking at
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Speaker 1: trying to do something different besides play man, because it's
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Speaker 1: right now, it's they're not doing They're not doing good
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Speaker 1: enough I think in coverage is the best way to
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Speaker 1: put that. And the third down percentage allowed is actually
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Speaker 1: uh not great either. It's you know, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: twenty four, which will put you in the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the league and uh right at you know, the at
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Speaker 1: that part of the bottom of the league. So I
39:39
Speaker 1: mean they're trying to find ways to get better. And
39:43
Speaker 1: if you continue to play man and you continue to
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Speaker 1: have problems and Emmy's or m A's Mr. Sigmon mental aires,
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Speaker 1: then you allow big plays and you allow big yards
39:52
Speaker 1: because the personnel is not going to dramatically change at
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Speaker 1: this point unless they go make some trade. We don't
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Speaker 1: know that the deadlines next, but in theory, you know
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Speaker 1: that is an off season expedition to go get some
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Speaker 1: new players. But so now, if you can get better
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Speaker 1: from within, yeah, I mean there, look, you guys can improve. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I mean you can have Tyson Campbell get better. You
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Speaker 1: can have your veteran corner Shot Griffin make the catches
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Speaker 1: on possible interceptions. You can have ray Sean Jenkins make
40:25
Speaker 1: make an interception. I mean, so, I mean there's ways
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Speaker 1: to get better without saying okay, we'll look now, hands up,
40:31
Speaker 1: we're raving a white flag. We're not gonna be any
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Speaker 1: good this year now. I mean, look, you can get
40:36
Speaker 1: guys better, you can scheming up better. As coaches, you
40:39
Speaker 1: can understand what your players do better and better put
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Speaker 1: them in a position to succeed. I mean, so there's
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Speaker 1: ways to improve, not only from the standpoint of improvement
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Speaker 1: with them, but also the coaching aspect of it as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, Logs will come back in just a moment
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Speaker 1: and get into the Seattle Seahawks. Not the Seahawks were
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Speaker 1: used to seeing right now and no, and they're they're
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Speaker 1: not playing good football right now. With Gino Smith, who
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have him as my backup quote, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: We'll have to delve into that when we return. This
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Speaker 1: is the Urban Meyers Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome Back.
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Speaker 1: The Urban Meyer Show continues along the Jaguars Radio Network
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back Final moments of the Urban Meyers Show on
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Speaker 1: this Tuesday, October twenty. Can't believe it's I mean, November's
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Speaker 1: right around the corner. Next show, next Reband Meyer Show
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Speaker 1: will be November. I'm all for a little bit of
41:42
Speaker 1: fall weather, JP, but we had a hint of it
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Speaker 1: around here what week or two ago? Not asking for
41:47
Speaker 1: a hint, I'm asking for more than that. But it's
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Speaker 1: getting warmer, asking for like fall weather. Is that too
41:54
Speaker 1: much to ask? Apparently? So I want to feel a
41:56
Speaker 1: little bit of that fall, cool, brisk air. You might
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Speaker 1: have to go. It's football season, j J. Let's get it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean put your order in so at the jet
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Speaker 1: stream to dip down and bring us some cool weather.
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Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit of rain, not a lot, just
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Speaker 1: a little bit rain, a little bit just to knock
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Speaker 1: the dust down. Okay, filter the air. It's a good thing. JP. Great,
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Speaker 1: I'm with you on the cool off a little bit.
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Speaker 1: It'll come. But November on the calendar changes, and then
42:28
Speaker 1: here we go. Then you know, once January hits, it
42:31
Speaker 1: gets a little chillier. It's a while away, a relative thing.
42:35
Speaker 1: We kind of ways to go. We gotta ways to
42:37
Speaker 1: go literally through the air. This week, the Jaguars Friday
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Speaker 1: will fly to Seattle, three thousand miles just under three
42:45
Speaker 1: thousand miles in that trip and long long way, and
42:48
Speaker 1: it's a four oh five kickoff, and it's a Seattle
42:51
Speaker 1: Seahawks team that is two and five. They don't have
42:53
Speaker 1: their starting quarterback, and it is a different football team
42:56
Speaker 1: without Russell Wilson in there. Obvious to give you some
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Speaker 1: numbers on real So Wilson, you think they miss him?
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, third in in the National Football League and
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Speaker 1: completion percentage first in rating points completion precentage I mentioned earlier.
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Speaker 1: Interception uh percent number one in the National Football League
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Speaker 1: point eight percent, doesn't give it up. And uh first
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Speaker 1: in average game per past play at over nine yards
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Speaker 1: an attempt. It's good you think they miss him. Pet
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Speaker 1: Carroll came out and said, look, he wouldn't be coaching
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Speaker 1: as long as he has been if it weren't for
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. That's the first time that you've ever had
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Speaker 1: a coach admit or say something to that effect that
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Speaker 1: the reason I am still here is because of player X.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not pretty amazing. He's not you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if he's saying it, he believes that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: look at first of all, Pets done a great job
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Speaker 1: with Seattle Seahawks, and he turned them into a team
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Speaker 1: that was considered kind of like a small market team
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Speaker 1: that didn't get a whole lot of attention to because
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Speaker 1: that's what Seattle was for a long period of time,
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Speaker 1: but then we got the quarterback. They got the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and then he helped turn them into a perennial winner.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, you know. And then they
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Speaker 1: did did a pretty good job with Super Bowl too,
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Speaker 1: Yes they did, and darn close to another one. Awesome
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Speaker 1: if you just handed it the beasts the yard away. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I can't go back and revise history now, but the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars faced the Seahawks four oh five Eastern Time kickoff
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Speaker 1: this coming Sunday at Luman Field in Seattle. Logs, have
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Speaker 1: a great week. We will talk to you later. Talk
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Speaker 1: to you soon, sooner, hopefully rather than later. Maybe he'll
44:46
Speaker 1: see maybe we're all day to day, aren't Well. That's
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Speaker 1: Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaverer for Jeff Vlogg and head coach
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Speaker 1: Aban Meyer. I'm J. P. Shadrick. We'll catch you next
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Speaker 1: time when the Urban Meyers Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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