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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, November 18 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time, Dick Ashlyn Sullimsells, John Oceans,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton, Jangs Drive Time. When it starts right now,
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Jaguars Drive Time. It is Thursday morning, the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars getting ready for a home game against the San
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Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners here on Sunday at one o'clock. Supposed
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Speaker 1: to be beautiful weather here in Jacksonville. We're excited for it.
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Speaker 1: We're excited for two home games in a row. Come on,
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Speaker 1: jag come on home. And I think these are two
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Speaker 1: games that the Jaguars, if they play well and create turnovers,
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Speaker 1: can win. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean when you looked at
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Speaker 1: the schedule and you saw the Niners and we all
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Speaker 1: expected more from that team this year, and the Falcons,
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Speaker 1: you thought, okay, those are gonna be matchup problems. But
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Speaker 1: the way the defense is playing right now, and if
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Speaker 1: you can get a solid running effort um, you know,
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Speaker 1: these are two where the Jaguars can get attraction in
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Speaker 1: this seven game stretch. Can. But let's I mean, I
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Speaker 1: said can. I didn't say will, I said can. It's
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Speaker 1: been an amazing thing this week. I'm getting all these
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Speaker 1: emails about hey, forty are four and five. This is
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Speaker 1: a game the Jaguars should get. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: put it in should I mean, and the forty Niners
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Speaker 1: are saying the exact same thing. Well they are, and
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Speaker 1: they deserve to be saying the exact same thing, because
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners are they have a better roster and
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Speaker 1: a physical team. Talking to Bucky Brooks and the Huddle
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Speaker 1: that podcast last night, he watches the entire league much
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Speaker 1: more than I do. Said, out of all the team's
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Speaker 1: Jags play, this is the one that will test them physically,
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Speaker 1: even beyond the Titans, even beyond the Colts, this is
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Speaker 1: the most physical thing they'll face a huge test for
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Speaker 1: this defense line. Well, when you look which is worth quick,
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Speaker 1: when you look at their roster, they have George Kittle,
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Speaker 1: Um Deebo, Samuel Um, Eric Armstead, they have Fred Warner.
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Speaker 1: They have four or five players who you can right
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Speaker 1: now say they're in the top five at their position. Yeah. Right,
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Speaker 1: So you've got to be able to go match up
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Speaker 1: with those guys. But they're coming across the country after
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Speaker 1: Monday night game playing what's a ten o'clock game. At
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Speaker 1: the third time, your defense is playing well, you could
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Speaker 1: if you create turnovers and play well, get a win.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm smiling, Slynn because, as he said, George Kittle,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if I was at offensive coordinator, I would
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Speaker 1: have a package of plays called kid all over the
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Speaker 1: middle and just call it. That's just how well you're
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Speaker 1: not the offensive coordinator. But I see where you're going
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Speaker 1: with that. Don't you wish he was the especially speaking
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Speaker 1: watch watch all over the middle? All right, you're a
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Speaker 1: smart guy. Big thing one is figuring things out. How
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Speaker 1: is this offense going to score more points? Thirty three
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Speaker 1: points in three weeks? I feel like I've said that
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Speaker 1: thirty three times this week. It's been the major theme,
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Speaker 1: figuring things out. How are you going to get laviscussional?
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Speaker 1: And Jamal ad knew the ball gonna have to get
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Speaker 1: creative here, and really everyone just has to play better.
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Speaker 1: We gotta play better, all of us. You know, I
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Speaker 1: gotta play I gotta play better. For those guys up front,
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Speaker 1: for the receivers, I gotta I gotta throw the ball better. Um,
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Speaker 1: they gotta make some more plays, like just all the
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Speaker 1: way around. We all gotta be better. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: not one sided. So that's a conversation that you do
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Speaker 1: have to have and we we've been having that and
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Speaker 1: I think we're in a good spot and I know
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Speaker 1: it's all gonna come together, but um, we're hoping this
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Speaker 1: is the week, you know, That's what we're working for.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too is tight ends Kittle in the middle.
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Speaker 1: George Kittle is a mismatch problem and urban Meyer called
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Speaker 1: him the best tight end in the game yesterday and
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Speaker 1: he's not wrong. How do you defend him? Well, it
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Speaker 1: helps that the defense is playing the way they want
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Speaker 1: to play. You definitely want guys that they're thinking too
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Speaker 1: much on the field. Um, whatever, it's comfortable for guys
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Speaker 1: a round whatever they feel comfortable with. You know, we
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Speaker 1: try to keep the communication between coaches and I mean
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Speaker 1: we're at their points, so they wouldn't keep us comfortable
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Speaker 1: and keep our minds clearing so we can play fast,
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Speaker 1: play thosable, whatever it is. Big thing three is getting
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Speaker 1: healthy Brandon Linda and James O'Shaughnessy back on the practice
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Speaker 1: field for the Jaguars yesterday. That is big New was
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Speaker 1: James Robinson still dealing with that bruised heel, also a
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Speaker 1: knee injury that has popped up so it looks like
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Speaker 1: he'll continue to be questionable, but seems to be optimistic
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Speaker 1: that he's gonna keep playing through these injuries and Brian.
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Speaker 1: They're going to need all three of those guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's worrisome with the knee now added to
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Speaker 1: the heel. It's tough enough for running back to deal
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Speaker 1: with one now, um and look, no disrespect intended to
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Speaker 1: Carlos Hide. He's gonna get a chance to run against
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Speaker 1: his former team, so hopefully he'll be motivated. But he's
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Speaker 1: just not the same guy. There's something about Robinson that
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Speaker 1: is tough to define, and yet he's so tough. You
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Speaker 1: hope he gets out on the field on Sunday can
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Speaker 1: give you a good carries, you know what you hope
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Speaker 1: for the sake of this offense, which you know, it
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Speaker 1: feels to me like the offense with James Robinson, uh
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Speaker 1: and the stats bear it out, but it also feels
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Speaker 1: that way watching him. They're about a seventeen twenty point
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Speaker 1: offense with James Robinson on the field. That's fair where
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Speaker 1: they can drive. They can hope once a half to
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Speaker 1: put together an extended drive finish it off, which is
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Speaker 1: hard to do. In the NFL and then get seventeen
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Speaker 1: or twenty without James Robinson, they've been any eleven point offense,
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Speaker 1: and it's felt like an eleven point offense. So what
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Speaker 1: you hope Schlenn over the course of this, you know,
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Speaker 1: next nine games with a heel and an now, you
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Speaker 1: hope at some point he can get past that. It
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Speaker 1: feels like something because of the nature of the industry.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a doctor, but I play one
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Speaker 1: on tv UM. It feels like that could linger because
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Speaker 1: of where it is on his body. Let's hope for
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Speaker 1: his sake, in the Jaguar's sake, it doesn't. Because I
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Speaker 1: misjudged even the beginning to season how much they were
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Speaker 1: going to need him, how dependent they would be on him,
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Speaker 1: but they are, well, yeah, it certainly is different now
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Speaker 1: with d J. Chark and travisy Ten not playing. I
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Speaker 1: think when we saw that all those draft picks, we thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: James Robinson is going to be a complimentary. Now he's
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Speaker 1: the guy, and you wonder what these injuries and none
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Speaker 1: of us are doctors, is it worth him sitting a
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Speaker 1: week and resting and does that does that mean we
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Speaker 1: even make a difference well, the life fan of an
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Speaker 1: NFL football player, on average is less than four years.
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Speaker 1: For running back, it's less than that. Um, if he's
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Speaker 1: healthy enough to play, he's gonna want to play, right. Uh.
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Speaker 1: But if he's not, he's not, so you have to
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Speaker 1: rely on the medical training staff here to tell you
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Speaker 1: coach he can go, or coach you can't. And if
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Speaker 1: you can't, you just have to keep moving right. This
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Speaker 1: is a guy because he does so many different things. Well,
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Speaker 1: the screen out of the back field, the wheel route. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's got that little shake where he it's not like
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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor's shake, but just kind of phreezes a guy
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Speaker 1: enough for him to get right by him. And then
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Speaker 1: of course you can put a shoulder down to play
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Speaker 1: with power. He gives you everything that you need to
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Speaker 1: be efficient on offense. When John makes that face, it's
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Speaker 1: because an air horn goes off in the hallway, and
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Speaker 1: we're always frightened by it every morning. I'm frightened by
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Speaker 1: many things, especially that one. The thing today, All right,
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Speaker 1: let's quickly touch on big thing too, which is George Kittle.
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Speaker 1: How the heck are they going to defend this guy?
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Speaker 1: They've had so many problems with Titans Kittle in the middles,
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Speaker 1: Titans in the middle. It's been an issue where you're
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Speaker 1: not going to take him away, right, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: hope to limit his impact to some degree, but nobody
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Speaker 1: ever takes this guy away. He is He's in the
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Speaker 1: highest payd tight end in football. Or has he been
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Speaker 1: your past yet? Yeah, they're right there at the very time.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's everything runs through him on their offense
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Speaker 1: and you're you're just They get him open, they find
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Speaker 1: ways to get him where he can be impactful. I
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Speaker 1: was really impressed with that blocking they on on Von
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Speaker 1: Miller the other night. I had never seen him block
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Speaker 1: like that. A complete tight end and a guy that
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Speaker 1: is going to be a matchup problem. And more importantly,
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Speaker 1: uh and Samuel gets his yards because he's the kind
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Speaker 1: of guy to do it. Um, George Kittle is the
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Speaker 1: guy who gets the yards that really hurts you. Every
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Speaker 1: time I see a highlight of him, it feels like
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Speaker 1: he's hitting a little crosser and turning it into a
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Speaker 1: big play. I think the key for the Jaguars is
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Speaker 1: away from these two guys. Can they stopped the run
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Speaker 1: well enough? Because were brutally good against the Rams. The
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Speaker 1: ball they have to stop that first and get forty
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Speaker 1: nine out of situations where it's easy for Kittle and
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Speaker 1: Samuel to make plays. Uh, it's the running game early
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Speaker 1: that I think is going to be the key. If
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Speaker 1: they're slowing it down a little bit in the first half,
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Speaker 1: they have a chance if they roll to an easy
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Speaker 1: drive like they are wont to do. Um. Okay, you
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Speaker 1: know you mentioned you mentioned the running game that fullback
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Speaker 1: how you check if you were call the game in
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Speaker 1: seventeen he was. He was the X factor in that
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Speaker 1: game because there was so much attention paid to Kittle
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Speaker 1: that he was able to escape and he was always open.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was I think he had seven catches
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Speaker 1: that day and I think he only had forty five
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Speaker 1: or fifty yards. But they moved the chains and kept
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Speaker 1: drives alive at key moments. So it's not just George Kittle.
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Speaker 1: My Kyle Shanahan is incredibly good at getting a guy open.
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Speaker 1: He's very good at scheming those open and running different
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Speaker 1: plays from different personnel groups than you're expecting. This is
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Speaker 1: a mental game. This with you've got to be on it.
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Speaker 1: Lots of mismatched problem is going to be a tough game.
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Speaker 1: For the Jaguars here on Sunday against the forty Niners.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of the forty Niners, Keana Martin, senior team
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Speaker 1: reporter for San Francisco, joins us here on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Thursday morning, the Jaguars getting ready for a big game
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Speaker 1: against the San Francisco forty Niners. And now we are
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Speaker 1: joined by senior team reporter Kiana Martin, who has woken
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Speaker 1: up at seven am in California. So thank you, Kiana.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate you. There's no worries. Yeah, it's still quite
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Speaker 1: early over here on the West Coast. Team hasn't headed
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Speaker 1: out to Jacksonville, just as of Yette. They'll be making
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Speaker 1: that trip on Friday, Friday afternoon, but still early. But
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to be joining you guys. How's everything going
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Speaker 1: over there? We are good. We're excited for a home game,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. And we all watched from our couch
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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, and I read all about how the
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Speaker 1: Rams were supposed to just absolutely dominate the forty Niners,
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Speaker 1: and the opposite happened. So tell us about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it took a lot of people by surprise,
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Speaker 1: but not necessarily people in the house coming into this game.
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Speaker 1: You know, forty Niners obviously not sitting where they know
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Speaker 1: that they should be, especially looking at the talent they
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Speaker 1: have on that roster um, but going into this game
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Speaker 1: knowing kind of what's on the line, knowing what this
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Speaker 1: team is capable of. Uh, the mindset was much different. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They've if you look at their matchup against the Rams,
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners have actually matched up quite well over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Looking back, um the last
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Speaker 1: two years, having those seasons sweeps and kind of bringing
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Speaker 1: that on. And I think a lot of people and
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Speaker 1: if you just look at these storylines heading into Monday
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Speaker 1: Night Football, You're looking at this Rams team with all
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Speaker 1: of these new shiny pieces. You've got Matt Stafford under center,
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Speaker 1: you have Von Miller, who you got in that trade,
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Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. You bring in, oh b J. So,
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Speaker 1: I think absolutely the forty Niners are looking like underdogs
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Speaker 1: with this team. Knows it doesn't matter who you bring that.
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Speaker 1: This team wants to bring their a game and they
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Speaker 1: have so much to prove and they were able to
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Speaker 1: do that on primetime. Big picture, kana Uh, How is
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo handled the dynamic in the quarterback room when
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Speaker 1: you when you take a quarterback in the top five,
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Speaker 1: you generally assume that one guy's on the way out
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Speaker 1: and the other guy's on his way in eventually. Has
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Speaker 1: that played into the season and the struggles at all?
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Speaker 1: Or has Jimmy handled it like a champ? Give us,
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Speaker 1: you know, a thirty thousand foot view of how the
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Speaker 1: quarterback room has played out this season? Yeah? Absolutely, So obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, you're the leader of this team and you
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Speaker 1: hear that essentially this front office has jumped up nine
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Speaker 1: spots and they are targeting a quarterback now. Jimmy said
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Speaker 1: that one he was very grateful that the forty Nighters
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Speaker 1: were very open with him about what was going on,
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Speaker 1: but of course he was upset and I believe he
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Speaker 1: kind of there was a chip on his shoulder, and
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Speaker 1: that kind of played into how he showed up to
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Speaker 1: offseason workouts, how he showed up to training camp. UM
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Speaker 1: players and head coached Kyle shanahana like all said that
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Speaker 1: Jimmy came to work a little different. It wasn't the
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Speaker 1: same Jimmy Garoppo that we've seen in years past. So
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Speaker 1: now let's fast forward to season. Forty Knights have dealt
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of a struggle. But Kyle Shannon
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Speaker 1: and said that he is at that moment and at
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Speaker 1: this moment, the best quarterback in the building for the
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Speaker 1: job and gives the forty Niners the best chance to win.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of fans have been calling to
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Speaker 1: see Tray Lance, but I think we kind of got
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Speaker 1: to take a step back and remember that this guy
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Speaker 1: has only played a handful of games in college. I
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Speaker 1: feel like this is gonna be more of a process.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to have a little bit of patients
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Speaker 1: before we see Trey Lance kind of take over the
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Speaker 1: entire offense. But he might be waiting a little longer
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Speaker 1: because of the way Jimmy Garoppolo has been playing over
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Speaker 1: these last three games. UM, He's been playing clean football,
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Speaker 1: decisive football. UM. The forty n have. Their offense has
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Speaker 1: found a way to get clicking. Uh, and Jimmy Garoppolo
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Speaker 1: has really been kind of taking the steps that this
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Speaker 1: team necessarily needed, especially as they're looking into this second
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Speaker 1: half of the season and trying to make that I
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Speaker 1: don't like saying the word, but that layoff push. I
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Speaker 1: know we're still it's a lot of football to be played,
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Speaker 1: but if Jimmy Garoppolo continues to play at the level
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Speaker 1: that he is right now, it might be a while
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Speaker 1: until we see Trey Lance fully taking charge of the offense.
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Speaker 1: Where's this team's confident level right now? There are four
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Speaker 1: and five? Uh, but they've got to feel like if
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Speaker 1: they win this week, they're back in it. Um. Is
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Speaker 1: that how they're approaching it? And do you see this
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Speaker 1: is a team that can make that kind of push.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of exactly what's going on. UM. I actually
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Speaker 1: spoke with a couple of guys yesterday and that when
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Speaker 1: against the Rams with such a momentum builder and now
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Speaker 1: it's just how do you take that and how do
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Speaker 1: you carry that along the rest of the season. Monday
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Speaker 1: night was probably the most complete game that we saw
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners played this entire season. It's been a
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Speaker 1: little lopside in other times of the season, and maybe
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Speaker 1: at one point, especially a couple of weeks ago against
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, the defense was struggling a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Offense finally caught its wind in the second and a
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Speaker 1: half of the game. But going into Monday Night, Monday Night,
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Speaker 1: if they can continue what we saw on the field
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Speaker 1: there and continue that throughout the season, I feel like
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Speaker 1: this team has the opportunity to take it to that
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Speaker 1: next level. Uh. If you look at the NFC picture
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Speaker 1: right now, you have your teams that are sitting at
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Speaker 1: the top, and you know who are going to be
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Speaker 1: those teams that you're gonna see play January football. But
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Speaker 1: beyond that, some teams are starting to slide, some teams
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Speaker 1: are starting to move up. So there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: opportunity for the Sporting Matters team, But honestly, their fate
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Speaker 1: is realistically in their own hands. They know what lies
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Speaker 1: ahead and they will have to be the ones that
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Speaker 1: essentially keep them in that mix. As we finished off
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Speaker 1: the second half of the season, absolutely Jaguar is looking
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Speaker 1: to play upset on a forty Niners team that is
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Speaker 1: writing high, just like Kiana said. Kiana, thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for joining us on Jaguars Drive Time this morning. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys on Sunday. Sounds good. We'll see
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Speaker 1: Time for some he will, he won't, he might going
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Speaker 1: into Sunday's game against the forty Niners. So, Brian, you
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Speaker 1: were up, Um, yeah, I remember Miles Jack was selected
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Speaker 1: in the draft. We heard about his coverage skills. We
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Speaker 1: haven't always seen it. He's been better going forward necessarily
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Speaker 1: than dropping back. But there was the story that he
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Speaker 1: covered the the USC wide out to Nelson Aglar, who
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Speaker 1: had also been the second round pick that year. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna need to see the coverage skills this week. Uh.
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Speaker 1: George Kittle is a powerful player and Miles Jack is
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Speaker 1: going to need to be able to switch back and
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Speaker 1: forth from playing the run, which he does so well
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Speaker 1: in the past. So he will have to be, by
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Speaker 1: necessity a shutdown coverage guy. Is he won't shut it down.
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Speaker 1: No one, No one does. No one does. No one
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Speaker 1: shuts Kittle down. But if he can limit it right,
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Speaker 1: if he can get him at the chains, if he
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Speaker 1: can make a play here or there to break service.
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Speaker 1: John has wanted to say, uh, that will be enough. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I will say that Miles Jack might get an
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Speaker 1: interception this week because if he's in coverage and Kittle
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Speaker 1: has the ball thrown, we haven't. It was the last
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Speaker 1: interception you saw from Miles Um, it's been a while. No,
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Speaker 1: it was last year against Cincinnati. Okay, there you go.
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Speaker 1: We need to see it. There you go, we need
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Speaker 1: to see it. There you go. It was a great
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Speaker 1: interception too. He's a critical player. I do I do
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Speaker 1: now that you say go ahead, John, you're on your
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Speaker 1: high horse today. Might he will? He won't. He might
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Speaker 1: is Matthew Wright, and he will continue to be under
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Speaker 1: scrutiny because as well as he's played and as big
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Speaker 1: a kicks as he's had, he also continues to have
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Speaker 1: a hiccup each game, which is not an expected of
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Speaker 1: a young kicker, but it's what he's going through right now. Um,
18:23
Speaker 1: he won't ever be a guy I don't think to
18:28
Speaker 1: do what they would like him to do on kickoffs.
18:30
Speaker 1: He he has taken over kickoff duties from Logan Cook
18:33
Speaker 1: because it sounded from what Urban said a few weeks ago.
18:36
Speaker 1: They're concerned about over kicking and the motion on Logan
18:40
Speaker 1: Cook's punts, so they put Matthew right on kickoffs. Uh.
18:44
Speaker 1: It is contributing to the shorter kickoffs. It's an area
18:48
Speaker 1: that I expect him to address and try to figure out.
18:51
Speaker 1: But he might slam. He might because that's the third
18:53
Speaker 1: one here. He might. Um, he might wind up still
18:58
Speaker 1: being the most important player in a sense on this
19:02
Speaker 1: roster going forward, because all the games are going to
19:05
Speaker 1: be close. If you think about it, the two games
19:08
Speaker 1: they've won have been because of Matthew Wright in a
19:11
Speaker 1: very real sense. He had three field goals against the
19:13
Speaker 1: Bills without him kicking field goals that probably are out
19:16
Speaker 1: of his range in London, they don't win. So he
19:19
Speaker 1: might sland be the hero again on Sunday, or might not.
19:24
Speaker 1: Should have that he will he won't. He might, or
19:26
Speaker 1: he might not, or he might not. That's always the
19:27
Speaker 1: other side of he might. I totally get it, and
19:30
Speaker 1: he might be on the roster, but he's he's somehow
19:35
Speaker 1: clutch when it comes down to it. He hits those kicks.
19:38
Speaker 1: So he might win it on Sunday, because I don't
19:41
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win very many games without him kicking well,
19:44
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be field goal games. Yeah, he's the
19:46
Speaker 1: pressure guy. Likes the pressure on him to make pressure not.
19:49
Speaker 1: I believe you have it. He will, he won him.
19:51
Speaker 1: I do it is Lavisca channalts Jr. He will, for
19:55
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, just figure it out. Coach
19:57
Speaker 1: Meyer said yesterday and his press conference, Yeah, Levisca Chenal
20:01
Speaker 1: has to play better. Very similar to the off season
20:04
Speaker 1: when we heard coach Meyer said, yeah, DJ Shark has
20:07
Speaker 1: to play better this season. He does have to play better,
20:09
Speaker 1: and I think he will on Sunday. You won't see
20:12
Speaker 1: him very much on the outside anymore as much. I
20:14
Speaker 1: think coach Meyer alluded to that yesterday. He's much more
20:17
Speaker 1: efficient as a slot receiver. And the hope is that
20:20
Speaker 1: Jamal Agnew if he can figure it out on the outside,
20:22
Speaker 1: they'll see him much more. So. I think we will
20:24
Speaker 1: see Labiska chal more in his more natural position this week,
20:29
Speaker 1: and he might get a touchdown this week because he
20:32
Speaker 1: has to. Brian and John, this is the guy that
20:34
Speaker 1: has to get gone. We expected so much from him,
20:36
Speaker 1: and coach Meyer said it yesterday. He's got to play
20:39
Speaker 1: better well. Coach Meyer also said yesterday that they had
20:42
Speaker 1: to settle on a spot for him. Yeah, and hopefully
20:46
Speaker 1: that spot is inside. Yeah, and that's I mean, you're right,
20:50
Speaker 1: and they're right. They have to settle um And I've
20:53
Speaker 1: got a ton of emails about this. Why did they
20:55
Speaker 1: even move him? Well, they're in a tough spot. I
20:58
Speaker 1: kind of have to. When you look at Jamal Agnew
21:01
Speaker 1: he does the slot things, probably as well as Levisca,
21:05
Speaker 1: and you can understand why coaches were hesitant to put
21:10
Speaker 1: Jamal outside and why they wanted to put it all
21:14
Speaker 1: outside because he's probably the best outside they have, even
21:18
Speaker 1: though he's not as good as as the slot. So
21:21
Speaker 1: I they've got some criticize, they've got some criticism for
21:24
Speaker 1: doing that. I see where they're coming from with it.
21:27
Speaker 1: But you've got to settle with them and hope that
21:30
Speaker 1: you can get something out of that outside slot because
21:32
Speaker 1: let's face it, even though DJ wasn't having a great year,
21:36
Speaker 1: I mean he was okay, but he wasn't lightening it up. Yet,
21:39
Speaker 1: not having that piece has caused a domino effect in
21:42
Speaker 1: the receiver corps where nobody quite is able to play
21:46
Speaker 1: the role they're being asked to. So, uh, yeah, put
21:49
Speaker 1: Levisca back in the slot and see how goes. Yeah,
21:51
Speaker 1: and frankly, you just you don't have enough guys and
21:54
Speaker 1: that you're just trying to piece it together and figure
21:56
Speaker 1: it out well. As the coach gave some accolades to
21:59
Speaker 1: the quantrid also, perhaps they'll find a role for him.
22:01
Speaker 1: They signed John Brown this week, who's thirty one but
22:04
Speaker 1: was a speed guy a few years ago, so you know,
22:07
Speaker 1: maybe he can come in and find a role. It's
22:09
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a wide receiver by committee. They're gonna
22:11
Speaker 1: have to have packages for guys. Jason hackays to the
22:14
Speaker 1: entire college wide receiver class. Keep an eye on that.
22:18
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Speaker 1: for some Monday's head lines today predicting what will happen
23:02
Speaker 1: in Sunday's game against the forty Niners? Are we optimistic?
23:05
Speaker 1: Are we realistic? Negative? What we think of Brian? I'm
23:08
Speaker 1: optimistic today. I think we're due for a while game,
23:12
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't seem like it's possible for the
23:14
Speaker 1: passing game without without a big play receiver. But I
23:18
Speaker 1: think we're due for really strong performance from Trevor Lawrence.
23:21
Speaker 1: You listen carefully to what he said yesterday, UM, kind
23:24
Speaker 1: of get where he's at. I think I know where
23:26
Speaker 1: he's at. So I'm gonna say the headlight will be
23:29
Speaker 1: Golden Boy on Monday. Obvious playoff of San Francisco and
23:33
Speaker 1: the forty, But I think if this team is gonna win.
23:36
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to make that drive at the end
23:38
Speaker 1: of the game to set up Matthew Right. So I'll
23:40
Speaker 1: be optimistic and say, Golden boy, I like it. We've
23:43
Speaker 1: been waiting for that drive. Make it happen on Sunday,
23:46
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, because I'm negative, Ned, I'm gonna say
23:49
Speaker 1: crunch time. And what I mean by that is either
23:53
Speaker 1: work both ways. Either Matthew Right kicks a crunch time
23:57
Speaker 1: field goal right I know I'm following, um, or it's
24:01
Speaker 1: crunch time, or the forty Niners just bring a little
24:04
Speaker 1: too much offensively and out physical the Jaguars a little bit. Um.
24:09
Speaker 1: I think it will be the latter, because again, I
24:14
Speaker 1: just tend to go with teams that are fighting for
24:17
Speaker 1: playoff berths. This team feels like they're still doing that.
24:22
Speaker 1: On a side note on that, before you close up
24:25
Speaker 1: for the week, what an opportunity this is for the
24:28
Speaker 1: Jaguars to show statement that what they have done in
24:33
Speaker 1: the last three or four weeks, you feel so much
24:34
Speaker 1: better about this team than you did right before the bye.
24:38
Speaker 1: They could be playing you know a team that's won
24:41
Speaker 1: and eight where they go out and get a win
24:43
Speaker 1: and you feel good about it. Would you wouldn't know
24:46
Speaker 1: what it meant they win this game or even come
24:49
Speaker 1: even stay with it ie and you feel like, boy,
24:52
Speaker 1: they fought. Now you've got a win against Miami, I
24:56
Speaker 1: win over the Bills. A really competitive gaming is to
24:59
Speaker 1: playoff tea in the another one. This is a chance
25:03
Speaker 1: again to show that what they believe their building is
25:05
Speaker 1: for real. So uh, let's hope the headline is really
25:08
Speaker 1: something off that. But crunch time is what I feel like.
25:12
Speaker 1: Eight weeks to go and we're almost a Thanksgiving I
25:15
Speaker 1: mean that there's a long stretch of football go. This
25:17
Speaker 1: would be a really big win. And if I have optimism,
25:20
Speaker 1: it's because of the way they played the Bills and
25:21
Speaker 1: the Coulson back to back week and it's an opportunity.
25:23
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna that they're what they think. I'm not
25:26
Speaker 1: going to let the inability of the offense um keep
25:30
Speaker 1: me from thinking that this defense can make enough place
25:32
Speaker 1: to set them up. And that's why my headline is
25:35
Speaker 1: got it done. The offense is not going to score
25:38
Speaker 1: more points. There's gonna be a low scoring game, and
25:39
Speaker 1: I don't see the offense all of a sudden hanging
25:41
Speaker 1: thirty plus on the forty niners. But the defense is
25:44
Speaker 1: going to play well enough to give the Jaguars an
25:46
Speaker 1: opportunity to win, and they will do enough and they
25:49
Speaker 1: will get it done. There you go, negative, Ned, I
25:54
Speaker 1: hope that it's crunch time. Positive and I hope they
25:58
Speaker 1: got it done, got it done, and Golden Boy, and
26:00
Speaker 1: that would be important because he unfairly, I think he
26:03
Speaker 1: has had to deal with that this week. He's had
26:05
Speaker 1: a week. And let's end it with a win, shall we.
26:08
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