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Fred Taylor Previews San Francisco Matchup | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues ahead of the San Francisco forty
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  Speaker 1: nine Ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars in week ten, And
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  Speaker 1: it's time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. And we have arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Fred, The stretch run
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  Speaker 1: is underway and it starts off with a bang. San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco coming in here. Yes, they're five and three, don't
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  Speaker 1: let that fool you. This is still one of the
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  Speaker 1: best teams in the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 3: You're right, man, this is the best half of the season,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest half. And you said it starts off with
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  Speaker 3: a bang, big bang. And I have a theory. I
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  Speaker 3: think the Jaguars are going to kick some butt in
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  Speaker 3: his logs in his home stretch. And now he starts
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  Speaker 3: with the Niners, a team who's railing. You know, they've
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  Speaker 3: lost three in a row. They're trying to figure it
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  Speaker 3: out and regain their confidence. They have a really good team.
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  Speaker 3: As you said, no need to get any tissue anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: They're now a group of softeast. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think what we're going to see is that have
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  Speaker 3: back Trent Williams. They have back Deebo Samuel, They have
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  Speaker 3: a healthy Christian McCaffrey, who I think is one of
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  Speaker 3: the top three running backs in the entire NFL as today.
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  Speaker 3: So they're a team who's gonna lean on Rock Purty
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  Speaker 3: young quarterback to go out there and not make mistakes
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  Speaker 3: and get the ball to their playmakers. And those guys
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  Speaker 3: are going to try to go out and make some
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  Speaker 3: plays and get off that losing streak.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Fred, there was a lot of questions this
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  Speaker 1: week about this being a measuring stick game for the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars and all this, and they kind of some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys that were asked that bristled a little bit
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  Speaker 1: at some point. It's a measuring stick for the other
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  Speaker 1: teams too. The Jaguars are a pretty good team.
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  Speaker 2: Fred, correct. You know, you just take that and you
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  Speaker 2: throw it completely out the window.
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  Speaker 3: Look around the NFL, you know, they say it's any
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  Speaker 3: given Sunday, and they don't say it.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not cliche, it's the truth. You know. It
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  Speaker 2: has so many people wondering if there is.
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  Speaker 3: Actually a script to the NFL, and people are saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: the games are rigged. You got Vegas calling in Vegas
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  Speaker 3: are calling the referees. I've never seen a rough answer
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  Speaker 3: phone during the game. How can Vegas call and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I need this play to happen or I need that
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  Speaker 3: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: That's the beauty of our sport.
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  Speaker 3: It's any given Sunday and you don't have a cool
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  Speaker 3: idea of who's going to be who.
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  Speaker 2: Turnovers are unaccounted for. You never know when they're gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: Flags, you know, when guys have unnecessary roughness penalties and
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  Speaker 3: all these tic TAC files.
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  Speaker 2: You just never knowing. Those things change the course of
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for the Jaguars, they are a good team,
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  Speaker 3: they're a top team.
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  Speaker 2: Is not a measuring stick.
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  Speaker 3: What it is is I think it's an opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: them to show that they're a good team and that
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  Speaker 3: they can be a consistent NFL team or one of
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  Speaker 3: the top NFL teams. Look at when they lost to
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  Speaker 3: the Texans. Was that a measuring stick game? Or was
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  Speaker 3: that a game They're supposed to blow them out? So
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  Speaker 3: you kind of throw that statement out of the window.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's sexy for reporters to ask and try
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  Speaker 3: to line the team up against against when they trying
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  Speaker 3: to hype up this game. Obviously it wasn't a big
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  Speaker 3: enough game to get flex to a Sunday night matchup
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  Speaker 3: over the Jets and the Raiders. Tired of watching the
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  Speaker 3: Jets and the Raiders in prime time? Give us a break, please,
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  Speaker 3: whoever sat in schedule, I think it would have been
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  Speaker 3: a perfect time to watch Jacksonville in the nineers, But
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  Speaker 3: obviously it wasn't a measuring stick game to the schedule makers.
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  Speaker 3: So now here we have it one o'clock, Duval. Come
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  Speaker 3: bring your popcorn. I think it'll be a movie over
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  Speaker 3: a measuring state.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US pride of the Jaguars running back
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, get your popcorn ready for this matchup between
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  Speaker 1: Trent Williams, a left tackle for San Francisco and Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: the outside linebacker for the Jaguars who's been lining up
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive right offensive left a lot of the year. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, if you want to go do it, this
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  Speaker 1: would be the time to go do it against Trent Williams,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best tackles in the league.
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  Speaker 3: You know, trentis obviously top three, top five tackles in
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  Speaker 3: all of the game, and he has that dirty, nasty
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  Speaker 3: mentality and the mindset that I'm not going to let
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  Speaker 3: you mess with any players on my team, certainly on
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  Speaker 3: my side of the ball. I mean, every now and
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  Speaker 3: then you see Trent getting in fights and throwing hell mins.
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  Speaker 3: He's that type of old school nasty and that's what
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  Speaker 3: you want, quite frankly, because if you're going to pay
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  Speaker 3: your quarterback thirty forty million a year, you want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that he's not going to have any free
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  Speaker 3: hits or runners on his backside, on his blind side.
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  Speaker 3: Here we have Josh Allen, a guy who's in his
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  Speaker 3: contract season, a guy who's in the top with the
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  Speaker 3: other guys leading the league in sacks. I think he
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  Speaker 3: has nine sacks I believe on the season, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But he's out there, he's grinding, he's working hard, and
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  Speaker 3: this is the type of games you live for, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But he's gonna have to bring his whole roller deck.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to have to call up all of his moves,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's speed, the power, just quickness, you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to out quick Big Trent, whatever it might be. He's
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to use his entire toolbox to make it
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  Speaker 3: happen and to get those guys off the field again.
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  Speaker 2: They have a ton of playmakers. They can run it.
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  Speaker 3: They can run it right at him and test to
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  Speaker 3: see if he's ready in that capacity, or they can
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  Speaker 3: drop back, block him up and pass it. I love
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  Speaker 3: the challenge. I love the challenge for the entire defense
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  Speaker 3: because I believe the San Franz offense is as strong
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  Speaker 3: as their defense, and their defense isn't a unit to
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  Speaker 3: sleep on. They got a lot of great players as well.
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  Speaker 1: Bred Taylor with us. I think a portion of our
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  Speaker 1: audience is asking, what is a roller decks that's you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, or maybe the Little Black Book, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but that hour it does attach to it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he get his rolely deck out and uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: call up his look for his best stuff in there.
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  Speaker 1: He got something Sprien Taylor. Hey, Christian McCaffrey. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: his name a moment ago, and he's leading the league
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  Speaker 1: in rushing yards. But he's so much more than that
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  Speaker 1: for San Francisco, and the fact that they actually got
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  Speaker 1: him there in the trade a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: is remarkable, and he just adds to what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: They've got the tight end, they've got receivers, they've got
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  Speaker 1: an efficient quarterback. But McCaffrey's the guy. Why is he
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  Speaker 1: so difficult? And you know, his skill set is just unique.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like it's very much unique.
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  Speaker 3: We don't see this type of player, uh every year
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  Speaker 3: or every so often.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now he is the guy, a guy who
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  Speaker 2: U he does it all.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he gets the ball downhill, he has lateral
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  Speaker 3: jump cut ability, he can make you miss, he can
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  Speaker 3: run you over.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And not a big guy.
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  Speaker 3: I think his size is deceiving, but you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think with his decision making, his vision, he's able to
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  Speaker 3: get to where he needs to go as quick as
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  Speaker 3: any running back in the league. And through that he
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  Speaker 3: brings forth power because he's not again not the biggest
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  Speaker 3: size back, but with those other qualities he's able to
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  Speaker 3: generate explosiveness and explosive plays.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to say he's the white Marshall Faulk Right.
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  Speaker 3: Remember Marshall had that year where he had a thousand
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  Speaker 3: receiving a thousand Russian. You don't see that happening in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. Christian McCaffrey is the closest thing to that.
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  Speaker 3: There are some other guys that sort of remind me
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  Speaker 3: of Christian. A couple of years ago, I would say
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  Speaker 3: Christian will remind me of those guys. But now he's
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  Speaker 3: made his own name. He's a powerhouse runner. He gets
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  Speaker 3: it done for them. Screenplays, checkdowns, the route designs out
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  Speaker 3: of the back field, corner routes out of the backfield,
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  Speaker 3: you can line them up in most of the men.
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  Speaker 3: He can run option routes out of receiver position. You
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  Speaker 3: can hand it off to him. He can run the power,
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  Speaker 3: he can run the toss, he can run the zone play, stretch,
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  Speaker 3: zone outside.
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  Speaker 2: He can do everything.
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  Speaker 3: And the Jaguars he will be the best back that
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  Speaker 3: they faced off season, and they have to be extremely
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  Speaker 3: disciplined because with that vision, he could take it backside
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  Speaker 3: if those guys get too excited and overrun the play,
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  Speaker 3: or he can get it out the front side if
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  Speaker 3: you lose contained at the d ND or linebacker position.
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  Speaker 3: So the corners are going to have to bring their
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  Speaker 3: helmets because they're going to have to tackle, and everybody
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  Speaker 3: else is going to have to just be disciplined and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully can shut him down because they've done well against
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  Speaker 3: the run where they are seventy some yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, so they've been stout and it
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  Speaker 2: starts there.
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  Speaker 3: That way, it allows them an opportunity to play that
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  Speaker 3: his own defense, Ben don't break defense that they like
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  Speaker 3: to play.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Fred, final thought with you this week. You
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  Speaker 1: know the five weeks before the bye, the Jags one
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  Speaker 1: all five in five different stadiums, in four different cities,
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  Speaker 1: in seven different time zones.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now three of the next four are at EverBank Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: So and I asked Doug Peterson in the press conference
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  Speaker 1: the other day, you know the difference now you got
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  Speaker 1: to play at home and getting home. He's like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to play better at home. They didn't play
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  Speaker 1: well early in the season in this stadium. They were
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure things out. But that's the whole point
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  Speaker 1: of playing it better at home is to get the
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  Speaker 1: home field. So you better play well at home either way.
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  Speaker 1: This place needs to be rocking on Sunday, Fred for
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers Jaguars matchup, because this is what
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  Speaker 1: everybody's been waiting for for so long, or games with
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  Speaker 1: this magnitude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Want to say Duval County, Jacksonville, the surrounding cities on
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  Speaker 3: up into southern Georgia down to middle of the state, Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville fans anywhere, if you're close by, you're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: in the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Now is the time to be electric. You know. You
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  Speaker 2: have to bring that.
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  Speaker 3: La Chargers energy to the stadium the way that game
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  Speaker 3: was rocking that that night. In the playoffs, We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: need that energy each and every week to finish the
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  Speaker 3: season because there's no excuses. You know, you can make
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  Speaker 3: excuses when the team is under five hundred and having
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  Speaker 3: a losing season at this point during at the midway
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  Speaker 3: point during the season, but there aren't any excuses in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the team's record.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: If you have family obligations and mother life things, yeah
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  Speaker 3: we get it, you know. But even me, I have
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  Speaker 3: stuff going on, and I'm gonna be in a stadium.
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  Speaker 3: So I asked that you be in a stadium. Scream loud,
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  Speaker 3: you see me, less high five. You know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: take some photos. Let's just have a great time at
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  Speaker 3: the bank and cheer on our guys and to victory
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  Speaker 3: this week, next week, the week after that, we gotta win. Man.
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  Speaker 2: We got to bring that energy.
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  Speaker 1: You always bring that energy, Fred, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Go from analysts and radio person to fanboy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm a jackuar. So I go from saying the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars got to do this too, we gotta do this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stuck somewhere in the middle. So but it's all
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  Speaker 2: love and they know my heart. So I just want
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  Speaker 2: us to win, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: I want Jacksonville to win as a city, and I
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  Speaker 3: think winning does help put the city on the map,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot more, and it just increases the
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  Speaker 3: awareness of all the beautiful things that actually can happen
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  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: This is a beautiful city.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of amazing people and they don't always
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  Speaker 3: get that credit. But you know, when sport is at
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  Speaker 3: a high and you can just bring a little extra
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  Speaker 3: attention to the city from a positive point of view,
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  Speaker 3: it's a win win for everybody. So come on out, cheer, yell,
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  Speaker 3: christ mean, whatever you gotta do, let's get these ws.
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  Speaker 1: You can take Fred Taylor out of Duval, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't take Duval out of Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that segue. You better believe it. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to you next week. Fred, I'll see you