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Players give perspective on Titans matchup | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, December 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

0:03
Speaker 1: Welcome to Jens Drive John with John Hoosier Hurst and
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Speaker 1: Bryan set it six Jangs Drive. John starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. The story of the first half is what
0:21
Speaker 1: happened at the end of the half. Trevor Lawrence went
0:23
Speaker 1: down after being sacked by James Houston. We don't know
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Speaker 1: how severe, horrific, severe or not. Pretty clear Bethard's gonna
0:29
Speaker 1: be the quarterback to start the half. We have not
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Speaker 1: seen Trevor Lawrence out on the field. C J is
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Speaker 1: warming up. Remember the Lions have the ball first inside
0:37
Speaker 1: hand off here, This is DeAndre Swift got it to
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Speaker 1: the forty five yard liney two yard gain on first
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Speaker 1: down for Swift. And we do see Trevor coming back
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Speaker 1: onto the field and he's jogging back onto the field. Boy,
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Speaker 1: is that a good regardless of what happens here? Boy,
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Speaker 1: is that a sight for sore eyes? Trevor Lawrence in
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Speaker 1: uniform jogging back along the end line and jogging back
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Speaker 1: toward the Jaguar sideline. Man exact good sounds of the
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Speaker 1: game from Ford Field on Sunday. You can find more
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Speaker 1: of that at Jaguars dot com. Obviously, it's in Jags Wired,
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Speaker 1: which air is on Wednesday nights on Fox thirty. They're
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Speaker 1: really good stuff put together by the broadcast production team
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Speaker 1: here at t I A A Bank Phil, Good morning,
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Speaker 1: Brian sexted with you along with John Osier. Um. If
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Speaker 1: I had a camera, John and I could squeeze in there,
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Speaker 1: I would show that you once again if brought your
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Speaker 1: holiday coffee market. I think this has become a tradition
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Speaker 1: every year to feature what does it say? Happy Holidays,
1:42
Speaker 1: Happy Polidays, paw like paw like dogs? Get it? I
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Speaker 1: like it. See what's funny about that is it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be holidays. Yeah, but they said holidays. You are
1:52
Speaker 1: an interesting creature of habit. John, I like that about
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Speaker 1: you that you pull that out week two weeks before
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Speaker 1: Christian joke is I thought it along. Obviously, what we
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Speaker 1: saw there was salads of the game leads us to
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Speaker 1: the big storyline of the week. So let's jump right
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Speaker 1: into big things without further ado. We'll start with Trevor.
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Speaker 1: Is he ready to go with the head coach said
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Speaker 1: yesterday he would be day to day. He turned in
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Speaker 1: a sprained toe. We saw some of Trevor around the
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Speaker 1: building yesterday, but he was not on the practice field,
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Speaker 1: and then the question was asked of him finally when
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Speaker 1: he met with the media after practice, what do you
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Speaker 1: think I'm feeling better today? Um than I was Monday
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Speaker 1: and yesterday. You know, a little bit of the soreness
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Speaker 1: is it's kind of is going down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Um obviously still still sore and kind of taking it
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Speaker 1: day by day. But um, fortunate for sure, you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel I feel pretty good and from ready to
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Speaker 1: go to ready to get going again. And Travis E.
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Speaker 1: T N who had a string of three consecutive hundred
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Speaker 1: yard games and then it was interrupted with the injury
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Speaker 1: and he has to get going this week. Very difficult
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Speaker 1: challenge in front of him with it to see Titans
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Speaker 1: who were excellent against the run, but they need to
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Speaker 1: get this ground game going to give balance for the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: whichever quarterback it might be, and finally will roll through
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Speaker 1: to South struggles. The Jaguars, as you know if you
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Speaker 1: follow this team, have struggled in the a f C
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Speaker 1: South for a very long time. In fact, they haven't
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Speaker 1: beaten the team other than the Colts since September nineteenth
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Speaker 1: of two thousand and nineteen. And the head coach knows
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Speaker 1: as he's putting the pieces together for this franchise for
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Speaker 1: now and the future. They've got to change that, you know. Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons has been been the team, right,
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Speaker 1: They're the ones that have been kind of carrying the torch.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's the that's the team that we're
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Speaker 1: all kind of chasing. You know. India's has been kind
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Speaker 1: of in that second second spot there, and um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to We're trying to get there, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to build it and and hopefully one day
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Speaker 1: be be the ones that everybody else is kind of chasing.
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Speaker 1: And John, let me show you the numbers here from
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Speaker 1: two thousand and event team four or two thousand seventeen. Obviously,
4:02
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good on that. You know. You know what,
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't know what you're watching at home, So
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Speaker 1: let's show you the Jaguars record in the division ten
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Speaker 1: wins and twenty four losses dating back to two thousand
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Speaker 1: and seventeen, which, by the way, was there only a
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Speaker 1: f C South Division titles since this division was accumulated
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, so it's been a long time.
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Speaker 1: They haven't played very well they've lost five in a
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Speaker 1: row to the Titans and nine in a row to
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Speaker 1: the Texans. This game, as you talked about yesterday, is
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Speaker 1: important for many reasons, but as much as those is
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Speaker 1: the chance to get on the board against the team
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Speaker 1: other than the Colts. Yeah, the numbers are actually not
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Speaker 1: that good. Uh. And they're one and nine against Tennessee
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Speaker 1: in their last ten. Uh. They even get swept by
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Speaker 1: Near they won the South. Uh, they've lost every game
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Speaker 1: up there since two thousand thirteen. So it's uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: not as concerned right now about the rest of the
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Speaker 1: South because I don't feel like there's a thing with
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Speaker 1: the Colts. You know, you know, they clearly can handle
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Speaker 1: the Colts, And I feel like the Texans, once they
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Speaker 1: get this thing going, I feel like they're going to
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Speaker 1: start handling not handling the Texans, but beyond even Keel
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be that doesn't feel like a thing.
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Speaker 1: But going to Nashville late in the season like they have,
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Speaker 1: there's an aura. And I don't know if you'd feel
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Speaker 1: that with another franchise, but you do with this one.
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Speaker 1: And uh so I think it's very important because this
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Speaker 1: is the team again when the Texans have beaten them,
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Speaker 1: they haven't felt handled. They felt like they've tripped over themselves. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when they've gone up to Nashville, they have gotten handled
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Speaker 1: over and over and over again. With the exception of
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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen game or game early when they kind
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Speaker 1: of came back, it almost made that a game. Did
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Speaker 1: make that a game. If you're gonna win this division
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Speaker 1: and feel good, you know, I guess what, Brian, They
6:04
Speaker 1: gotta go over a year, right, They're not going to
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Speaker 1: change that. So as they're getting on planes and going
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Speaker 1: out on that field, you would like them to feel
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Speaker 1: better about things when they start competing, which I think
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Speaker 1: they will next year. So in that sense, I think
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Speaker 1: I think it's huge if they lose it. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a disaster. But if they win it, how
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Speaker 1: much better do you feel if if they're walking off
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Speaker 1: that field getting on that plane, To me, it changes
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Speaker 1: the whole dynamic of how you feel about this team
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Speaker 1: in January. If you get this, one feels so much
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Speaker 1: more important than the others. And that's irrespective of the
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Speaker 1: fact that if they were to beat the Titans on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you could start talking about
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Speaker 1: the playoffs scenarios, legitimately again that that doesn't even matter
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Speaker 1: at this point. What matters is the Jaguars find a
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Speaker 1: way to win in a place and against a team
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Speaker 1: that has been inhospitable to them all the way back
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Speaker 1: to when the Oilers beat the Jaguars in their very
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Speaker 1: first game. It's just it's been that thing. The Oilers
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Speaker 1: have won thirty three thirty three of the fifty four
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Speaker 1: games played between these two teams, and it's really become
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Speaker 1: a thing. Though to me, in the last five six years,
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Speaker 1: there was a time where I thought this thing was
7:13
Speaker 1: a little bit overrated, where if you really look at
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Speaker 1: the records, they had the deal in for a couple
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Speaker 1: of years in the nineties that was so prominent, but
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Speaker 1: then it was sort of even. For a long time.
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Speaker 1: They would split, it would be weird games, but then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden in third team when they stopped
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Speaker 1: being able to win up there, it's just sort of slid. Actually,
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Speaker 1: you know more because that franchise is better than this one.
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Speaker 1: It hasn't been real mystery. It hasn't been like the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have beating everybody else and beating the Titans. They
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Speaker 1: strugged against everybody, but it's really been battis t let's
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Speaker 1: roll back up through a big thing to the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: facing a run defense that's number three in the league,
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Speaker 1: only allowing teams eighty three yards a game. That's incredible.
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Speaker 1: And of course their third down percentage and let's show
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Speaker 1: you that is number one in the league. They only
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Speaker 1: allowed teams to convert third eight percent of the time
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Speaker 1: of a hundred and sixty one attempts. They're really good
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Speaker 1: up front, so if you're not gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: run the ball effectively. That brings us to the biggest
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Speaker 1: story of the week, and that is the health of
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Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Laurds. He did not practice yesterday. I believe
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Speaker 1: there was a first time in his tenure here that
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Speaker 1: he has not practiced on Wednesday. Yeah. I think there
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Speaker 1: was one where he was COVID at some point with
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Speaker 1: all the COVID weirdness, that he didn't practice one day
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Speaker 1: because of that. I can't remember that specifically, but he
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Speaker 1: says sounding bad in the press conference, but it's it's
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Speaker 1: only the first time that an injury has kept him
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Speaker 1: out of practice, and whether he goes or not is
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Speaker 1: still largely up in the air. C J. Beth talked
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Speaker 1: in the locker room about doing what backup quarterbacks do,
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Speaker 1: preparing to be able to play um and Lawrence sounded
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Speaker 1: like he was okay, but we don't know at this point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got the vibe. And it's still a little bit
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Speaker 1: tricky to read tele's with Doug because I mean Doug
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Speaker 1: Peters and he does a nice job of keeping it
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Speaker 1: close to the vest and you know, so that the
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Speaker 1: other team doesn't know what's going on. I think they'll
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Speaker 1: do that with Trevor a little bit. Um My vibe
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Speaker 1: was when Doug said yesterday that he believes Lawrence will
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Speaker 1: be on the practice field at some point this week.
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Speaker 1: I Doug usually says guys are trending in the right direction,
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Speaker 1: but the fact that he thinks Trevor will practice this
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Speaker 1: week at some point is a little bit more. And
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Speaker 1: then Trevor walked into the media thing yesterday, really no
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Speaker 1: protective shoe. Didn't look to me like it was a
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Speaker 1: limping I wasn't you know. I didn't fall him down
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Speaker 1: the hallway. I'm not that guy. But so it looked
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Speaker 1: and felt like a guy who was going to play
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Speaker 1: for this reason, think about it. With a lot of injuries,
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Speaker 1: you want to keep it off, keep it rest. But
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Speaker 1: a toe, even if it's minor, you would think with
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Speaker 1: a toe injury, you really want to give it rest
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Speaker 1: because the more time time then the better he's gonna
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Speaker 1: feel on Sunday. So again, my gut is that he plays.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't really want to see
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Speaker 1: it if he doesn't up there because I think how
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Speaker 1: he plays is so cute. We can get too later,
10:13
Speaker 1: but I feel this is a huge game for this
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Speaker 1: offense because they have not you know, I feel like
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Speaker 1: the offense is gonna be strength of the team this
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Speaker 1: year and next year, for for the Enio the future,
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Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna be tough to build this
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Speaker 1: defense to be dominant quickly. Well, if you're gonna depend
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Speaker 1: on your offense, you have to depend on offense against
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Speaker 1: good defenses. So you'd love to see them start. Okay,
10:37
Speaker 1: we're a good offense overall. Now can we go be
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Speaker 1: really good against tough d's because that'll get him over
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Speaker 1: the humpstart winning big games. And we'll find out as
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Speaker 1: we get closer to game day whether or not Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence is able to play in Nashville. We'll take a
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Speaker 1: break when we come back to t I A. Bank
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Speaker 1: Field on this Thursday morning, we'll go around the locker
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Speaker 1: room and give you a sense of what the fellas
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Speaker 1: are talking about as they get ready for the a
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Speaker 1: f C out matchup against the Titans back after this.
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Speaker 1: time and time to go around the locker room. What
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Speaker 1: the guys are talking about yesterday as they met with
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Speaker 1: the media post practice. And we'll start with wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk coming off a six catch hundred and four
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Speaker 1: yard performance in Detroit. Obviously, he has been ultra productive
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Speaker 1: this year. For quarterback Trevor Lawrence, he was asked, well,
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Speaker 1: what happens if Lawrence isn't the guy on Sunday and
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Speaker 1: if c J. Bethard has to step in and play.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot of belief in c J. Um
11:49
Speaker 1: I personally played against c J before, and uh, you
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Speaker 1: know it came in and uh ruined our day for us.
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Speaker 1: He had a great name himself, so obviously in the firsthand,
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Speaker 1: you know what he can do, cause in this low
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Speaker 1: room have a lot of respect for him and a
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Speaker 1: lot of confidence in him. So, um, you know, we
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Speaker 1: don't expect to you know, miss a beat, you know,
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Speaker 1: just pick up where we left off him and I
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Speaker 1: guess that's what they have to say. But we haven't
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Speaker 1: had a chance to see C. J. Beathard since August,
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Speaker 1: and so wondering how functional he will be in a
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Speaker 1: couple of days practice against a very good Titans team
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Speaker 1: is a lot to ask. I think some people expected
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Speaker 1: like the camera to pan over and for Christian just
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Speaker 1: have a tear, which isn't how they feel like he's
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Speaker 1: such a pro. Yeah, I mean he uh yeah, Bethred,
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Speaker 1: he didn't play very well this preseason, but he was
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Speaker 1: coming off growing injury from joined Uh. To me, when
12:39
Speaker 1: he's played, he's looked like a very serviceable backup. I've
12:43
Speaker 1: always thought in the NFL, if if you have a
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Speaker 1: good team and eleven and five ish team eleven and
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Speaker 1: six is team you want to back up that if
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Speaker 1: they play a month, they can get you too into Uh.
12:56
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like c J. If this team
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Speaker 1: was a twelve and five team, if you had to
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Speaker 1: play a month with him, you know, with a good
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Speaker 1: team around, he probably gets you a couple of wins
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Speaker 1: and a couple, where a big time quarterback in that
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Speaker 1: situation maybe gets you one more. I think that's the difference.
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Speaker 1: I think he's that guy, which is what you went
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Speaker 1: out of the backup keep. You know you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: have a home sitting on the bench behind Trevor, so
13:21
Speaker 1: this is what it is. Bethyard was alshow in the
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Speaker 1: locker room yesterday talking with the media as you would
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Speaker 1: expect just in case he is the starter on Sunday
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Speaker 1: if Trevor Lawrence can't go with the injured toe, and
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Speaker 1: he said just about what you'd expect a solid veteran
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Speaker 1: professional backup quarterback to say. The routine does have changed.
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that in practice I'm getting the
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Speaker 1: reps as it was today, uh them out of My
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Speaker 1: process is the same because you know it's the backup.
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Speaker 1: You're one player away in any situation, any game of
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Speaker 1: the year, so you gotta you gotta take the process
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Speaker 1: the same way through here one of my favorite stories
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Speaker 1: of all time, Brian I don't know if you remember it.
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Speaker 1: Back in the nineties, the Bills had a quarter back
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Speaker 1: and I forget his name, and probably good I forget
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Speaker 1: his name for his sake, but basically, the starter gets hurt,
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Speaker 1: the backup comes in, plays horrible and and in the
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Speaker 1: media after where he kind of goes, yeah, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: ready really prepare. That was jap lossman. I believe now
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Speaker 1: it was. It was one circuit with the Bills behind that,
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Speaker 1: but I always kind of said, yeah, that's probably what
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Speaker 1: I mean. I'm sir, I'm sure, Ce David Paris, I'm
14:29
Speaker 1: sure there are times where the guy goes in and
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Speaker 1: he's like, uh, coach, exactly. Big story. There's week Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Trevor's told the other story. Derrick Henry, who has put
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Speaker 1: up three hundred and forty five yards and five touchdowns
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Speaker 1: the last two times he's played the Jaguars. Remember he
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Speaker 1: did not play in the second game last year because
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Speaker 1: he had the foot injury. So this is the first
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Speaker 1: game last year and the last game in Henry has
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Speaker 1: been in A Beast and Foy, a Louicon, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: starting inside linebacker, was signed in free agency for games
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Speaker 1: just like this as a team eleven eleven man football,
15:11
Speaker 1: we gotta fit our gaps. You know, they they line
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Speaker 1: up in certain formations and you know they're gonna run
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Speaker 1: the ball. They might play action off of it. When
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Speaker 1: he has the ball, we gotta be able to get
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Speaker 1: off our blocks and get to the ball because you know,
15:20
Speaker 1: he is a very powerful guy, fast guy. We gotta
15:23
Speaker 1: be able to plug up the gaps and if he
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Speaker 1: bounces it, gets to the ball, help everybody tackle him.
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Speaker 1: You're talking to people yesterday. Uh, in Nashville. They have
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Speaker 1: had to find other ways to get Derrick Henry going.
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Speaker 1: And as we heard from Jonathan Hutton in our interview
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Speaker 1: with him, he hasn't gotten going in recent weeks. He
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Speaker 1: still has that ability to run downhill on you, but
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Speaker 1: it's when he gets outside that he's causing more trouble
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Speaker 1: this year for teams. Yeah, it feels like he is
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Speaker 1: still a player that is very very good. Um, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure their offensive line is as is as powerful
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Speaker 1: as it has been in the last I guess before
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Speaker 1: his injury. Roger staffolds in Buffalo and Taylor twees and
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Speaker 1: I R So you're right, And what I mean by
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Speaker 1: that is there were times where in the last probably
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Speaker 1: twenty or a nineteen and twenty, when he was really
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Speaker 1: dominant that the Titans, you would look up and they
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Speaker 1: were running their way back into games, being down fourteen points,
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Speaker 1: which is really hard and really rare in this league.
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Speaker 1: And it showed you what they are as a franchise.
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Speaker 1: It strikes you that they're not quite that, and that's
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Speaker 1: what they want to be. That being said Comma, he
16:37
Speaker 1: is uh still very capable if things are going right,
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Speaker 1: to completely dominate you. So it's almost like, well, maybe
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Speaker 1: they're running games not as much as it was, but
16:50
Speaker 1: it's a nine instead of a ten. It used to
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Speaker 1: be that he was a first and second down back
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Speaker 1: and you had to get him on first and second
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Speaker 1: down to put yourself in manageable third down. Well, now
17:00
Speaker 1: he has a career high in both receptions and yardage
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Speaker 1: and he had that long you know, narrowly missed the
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass life, which shows you they don't have quite
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Speaker 1: as much confidence they can just turn the ball and
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Speaker 1: I mean I turn around handed to him. So they
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Speaker 1: needy ways. That foot injury has had an impact, and
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Speaker 1: their offensive line, it appears, isn't quite Hey, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: do this and and don't worry about trying to disguise it.
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Speaker 1: So they're adapting and that's the reason they're still seven
17:27
Speaker 1: and five in first place. We know them, they're in
17:29
Speaker 1: the division. We know them because they simply are that
17:31
Speaker 1: team that is the same seemingly year to year. One
17:34
Speaker 1: of the longest ten year Jaguars is defensive linement Dwan Smoot,
17:38
Speaker 1: who certainly has a perspective on the neighbors to the north.
17:43
Speaker 1: I mean, we know what they're gonna brings. They you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty two run the ball. We know we gotta we
17:48
Speaker 1: gotta be strongest the roam. We gotta get vertical when
17:50
Speaker 1: we gotta, you know. So that's the plan, as always
17:52
Speaker 1: has been a plan. You know the times that we
17:54
Speaker 1: did play him, we played them, well that's what we did. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you almost get the feeling, Brian that they walk in
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Speaker 1: the game plan meetings on defense, you know, like, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing here? We know what the c Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, and obviously there's nuances to it, but you
18:09
Speaker 1: have to stop that guy. And uh, it is one
18:13
Speaker 1: of those rare things usually in the NFL, when you say, okay,
18:16
Speaker 1: we're gonna take something away, you go do it. Well,
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Speaker 1: this guy is good enough where even if you decide
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Speaker 1: to do that, you look up and he's running for
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Speaker 1: nine yards on you because he's broken a tackle and
18:27
Speaker 1: you're like, what in the world happened. Well, he's that good,
18:29
Speaker 1: you know, and that happens. They don't have the weapons
18:32
Speaker 1: in the passing game, especially if Traylon Burke's their first
18:34
Speaker 1: round draft choice who had the big hit in the
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Speaker 1: end zone last week and it was concusted, is in
18:39
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol if he doesn't play right, they don't
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Speaker 1: have that that tight end that's such a huge matchup problem,
18:45
Speaker 1: and they always seem to have had that guy. I
18:47
Speaker 1: would think this should be a week you could put
18:48
Speaker 1: it in the box, trusting the guys on the outside
18:52
Speaker 1: to be able to handle one on one. And that's
18:54
Speaker 1: saying a lot, because we know the secondary has been
18:56
Speaker 1: troublesome this year. Yeah, I I I hope so, But
19:01
Speaker 1: I would say that this secondary has not proven that yet.
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Speaker 1: So if if if you do that, it's worth watching.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's our tour around the locker room
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Speaker 1: Four Will he won't? He might? And John will start
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Speaker 1: with you. I'm going to say Jones, who I've I've
19:57
Speaker 1: done in this segment multiple times, and I think it's
20:00
Speaker 1: because I think he's so key to the offense. I
20:01
Speaker 1: think you agree, Uh, he will play this week? That
20:06
Speaker 1: was not a given last week he went into the
20:09
Speaker 1: game very questionable. Uh, and he won't And this is
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Speaker 1: really the meat of my He will he won't? He
20:16
Speaker 1: wi right, Yeah, there's some that are okay so or not.
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Speaker 1: He won't have four drops and I'm not sure how
20:22
Speaker 1: hell have any drops. And the reason I say that
20:24
Speaker 1: is although he didn't really want to go there, I
20:28
Speaker 1: think the chest injury last week had to have been
20:31
Speaker 1: a huge factor and why he played so poorly. I
20:34
Speaker 1: think he's motivated to show that he's not that guy. Um,
20:38
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he has to worry about that much.
20:39
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever been that guy, and I
20:42
Speaker 1: don't think he will be that guy. Uh. And as
20:45
Speaker 1: I said multiple times in this segment this year, he
20:48
Speaker 1: might be the key to them offensively because when he's right,
20:53
Speaker 1: we saw it against Baltimore. When he's right, he gives
20:56
Speaker 1: you that other element and can open up everything. Now
21:00
Speaker 1: only for Christian Kirk, who seems cannot really need somebody
21:02
Speaker 1: to open it up for him. He's pretty consistent. But
21:05
Speaker 1: for the running game, Uh, you know, if Z Jones
21:08
Speaker 1: gets going now, all of a sudden, the Titans, who
21:11
Speaker 1: are very good against the run, maybe they can't pay
21:13
Speaker 1: quite as much attention. I don't think E t N
21:15
Speaker 1: is gonna have, you know, a carry four yard, but
21:20
Speaker 1: can you pop one? If you could pop one and
21:22
Speaker 1: flip the field because of what's A Jones is doing
21:24
Speaker 1: is big. So I think Z Jones again might be
21:27
Speaker 1: the key to their offense big picture looking into three.
21:31
Speaker 1: Getting him going again and being consistent here at the
21:34
Speaker 1: end of the year allows you to feel good about
21:36
Speaker 1: bringing Calvin Ridley in to mesh with what you're getting
21:39
Speaker 1: from Christian Kirk ands a Jones and not feel like
21:41
Speaker 1: we gotta solve this one. We gotta go find that
21:43
Speaker 1: number two receiver. Yeah, I I don't think they really
21:47
Speaker 1: needed to. I think they've got You know, people always
21:52
Speaker 1: want to talk about Christian Kirk like he's a pure slot,
21:58
Speaker 1: pure three. So now as you got to get away
22:00
Speaker 1: from like labels if you will, I think Christian is
22:04
Speaker 1: it is a very good tube who can go to
22:07
Speaker 1: play the slot in this offense they kind of move
22:09
Speaker 1: around so much. And Christians fine is your to slash
22:15
Speaker 1: two A. I don't mean it to be right, I
22:18
Speaker 1: just but I've I fall victim to that too. I
22:22
Speaker 1: think Ridley is your one, Zay is your two, and
22:26
Speaker 1: Christian is your slot. Is a really powerful thing. But
22:31
Speaker 1: if you move Christian around is the around. I think
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Speaker 1: Ridley z and Christian is a really really good group
22:40
Speaker 1: to go in with, regardless of what he does the
22:42
Speaker 1: rest of the year. But certainly he love his confidence
22:44
Speaker 1: up well and my he will he won't or he
22:46
Speaker 1: might is a guy who could also open things up,
22:49
Speaker 1: and that's Evan England, who, like they had a couple
22:52
Speaker 1: of jobs last week, this week he will make catches.
22:55
Speaker 1: I think there was something about him getting that ball
22:57
Speaker 1: into the end zone that flipped or switch you to him. He,
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Speaker 1: of course, this week in the locker room was regret
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Speaker 1: remorseful to the better word. He regretted dropping the ball
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Speaker 1: as much as he did. And he will be a
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Speaker 1: guy who makes the clutch catch this week. Now, he
23:12
Speaker 1: won't be a hundred yard receiver, but he might john
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Speaker 1: be that guy finally that we're waiting for from that
23:19
Speaker 1: position to be the third down and six, third down
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Speaker 1: and seven go right to Evan, Go right to Evan.
23:25
Speaker 1: There's been a couple of games this year where there's
23:27
Speaker 1: been a rhythm with Evan Ingram moving the chains and
23:30
Speaker 1: playing an important part in keeping this team on the field.
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Speaker 1: This might be the week that he gets to be there.
23:36
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, they are excellent. The Titans are at
23:39
Speaker 1: stopping the run, but they're not as good on the
23:41
Speaker 1: back end. Their numbers defensively show that, kind of like
23:44
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. But if Evan Ingram can get some mismatches,
23:48
Speaker 1: then Evan Ingram could be that important part. And of course,
23:51
Speaker 1: if he's roaming the middle of the field making plays,
23:54
Speaker 1: it's tough to have two guys looking hey, where's Christian Kirk. Yeah,
23:57
Speaker 1: it just feels like, you know, we both went offense
24:01
Speaker 1: with that segment. Obviously, there's so much on defense that
24:04
Speaker 1: you know, frankly, I tried to sort of figure out
24:06
Speaker 1: a defensive guy. So much is going on defensively that
24:09
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to focus on one guy, right, I
24:11
Speaker 1: mean that's but offensively, Uh, to me, this feels like
24:17
Speaker 1: a game where in order to win you need to
24:21
Speaker 1: have some spurts where it feels like the fourth quarter
24:26
Speaker 1: against Baltimore where Trevor is on where it's really going.
24:29
Speaker 1: And to me, Za Jones and Evan Ingram are key
24:32
Speaker 1: to that. These two guys Trevor, if they're gonna win,
24:36
Speaker 1: it feels like they have to be going and has
24:38
Speaker 1: to feel like late Baltimore. All right, we'll come back
24:41
Speaker 1: with some final thoughts and Monday's headlines today here on
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Speaker 1: a Thursday morning. All right, we're back to wrap up
24:59
Speaker 1: our final show of the week. Brian and John with
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Speaker 1: you here from t I A bank Field and Monday's
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Speaker 1: Headlines today. I gotta I got a sense where this
25:08
Speaker 1: is going, But what do you say? Well, Uh. On
25:11
Speaker 1: the keyboard, you have to hit shift to do like hashtag,
25:15
Speaker 1: exclamation point asters, you know how you have to like
25:18
Speaker 1: a curse word. I'm afraid that's what it's gonna be,
25:22
Speaker 1: meaning not not blowout. I have a feeling they played
25:28
Speaker 1: better against Tennessee. I'd be surprised if it's one of
25:32
Speaker 1: those slide games where you just feel like it's all
25:35
Speaker 1: going against him. But I just don't know if up
25:39
Speaker 1: there Titans have a chance to clinch um. You know,
25:44
Speaker 1: I think it's a big ask for a for a
25:48
Speaker 1: defense that is really struggling right now, to completely shut
25:51
Speaker 1: them down. So I'm gonna go with big back blues
25:54
Speaker 1: and not that Derrick Henry is gonna run wild and
25:57
Speaker 1: embarrass this defense. But I could see the headline above
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Speaker 1: the photo of him with his shoulder down driving into
26:03
Speaker 1: the end zone. Uh. He has owned the Jaguars, especially
26:07
Speaker 1: up there. I think the Jaguars can corral him because
26:10
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the same Derrick Henry. Of course, big
26:13
Speaker 1: backs start to lose that effectiveness the more banging they've
26:16
Speaker 1: got going on in their in their game. But I
26:20
Speaker 1: still think he's the difference that that guy that that
26:23
Speaker 1: wins that takes the team, puts it on his back
26:25
Speaker 1: and gets it in for the game winning touchdown. I
26:27
Speaker 1: think it'd be close. I think you might even say, okay,
26:30
Speaker 1: right after so many bad days at Nissan Stadium, finally
26:34
Speaker 1: a day where you leave with your head held high,
26:36
Speaker 1: but with the defense that couldn't get the Lions off
26:40
Speaker 1: the field. I just don't know how you picked this yet.
26:43
Speaker 1: And again, I'm looking forward to this one because it's
26:45
Speaker 1: a winnable game. Yeah, it's winnable. And again I keep
26:48
Speaker 1: going back to you know, at some point this franchise
26:51
Speaker 1: is going to get one and not and Baltimore was
26:53
Speaker 1: one of them. We forget that because they had the
26:56
Speaker 1: one off last week and it's the one off and
26:57
Speaker 1: Baltimore was one of them where he walked off saying okay,
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Speaker 1: maybe team that's pretty impressive. This would feel like that
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Speaker 1: with division ramifications. All right, Well let's see if we
27:06
Speaker 1: can get it done. Thanks so much, John, appreciate it,
27:08
Speaker 1: and to Joe and to Brent Reeber and everyone who
27:10
Speaker 1: works to put together the show every day. Certainly appreciate
27:14
Speaker 1: your time and trouble turning us on. Have a great
27:17
Speaker 1: day and great rest of your week. Talk to you
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Speaker 1: Sunday from Nissan Stadium in Nashville,