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Changes to Jaguars defense after the bye | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, December 1 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, December. First, this is Jet Guars Happy Hours.
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Speaker 1: And now that guy who can score with just one
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Speaker 1: ft in Jay Kay Peace Shadrick. I would be the
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Speaker 1: first one in league history for that to happen. Welcome,
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Speaker 1: it is Jaguars Happy Hour. It is Thursday. It is
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Speaker 1: week thirteen, and I guess it's December. I didn't realize
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Speaker 1: it until right now. We've got a busy two hours ahead.
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Speaker 1: Analyst Jeff Lockman joining us here shortly. It's week thirteen,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Lions, a battle of four and
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Speaker 1: seven teams. Five and seven sounds a whole lot better
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Speaker 1: than four and eight. So the winner of this game
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Speaker 1: will be with that record coming out of the game
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Speaker 1: the stretch run unless they tie. Stretch run continues. Of course.
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Speaker 1: It's game two of us seven game season. As I
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Speaker 1: heard the other day in the locker room and the
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show, we'll hear from the head coach coming
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Speaker 1: up at five o'clock in just a little bit. Let's
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Speaker 1: hear from head coach Doug Peterson right now, Yes, four
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Speaker 1: and seven records from the Jaguars and the Lions. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's every game in the league is a big game.
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Speaker 1: This one, though, despite the records, is certainly important for
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Speaker 1: both sides. The guys understand that it is a big
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Speaker 1: game because it's the next one. And just like them,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm our goals are right in front of us,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and uh, this is a this is
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Speaker 1: a good football They got what what we have as
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Speaker 1: the staff have to get across our players that we're
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Speaker 1: playing a good football team. And and and I think
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Speaker 1: they're saying the same things. They're they're playing a good
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Speaker 1: football team. So it's we're kind of the same in
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Speaker 1: a way. And I heard, you know, uh, Coach Campbell
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Speaker 1: talked about that the other day, that very similar teams
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Speaker 1: and both playing for a lot, you know. Um, And
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Speaker 1: so yeah, I think just from that standpoint, you could
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Speaker 1: probably consider it, you know, in them in the big
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Speaker 1: game category. As John Madden said, tell me when there's
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Speaker 1: a little game. They don't really exist to the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence Wednesday, speaking with the media, why are the
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Speaker 1: Jags better in the red zone lately? The one thing
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Speaker 1: you look at is we're not turning it over in
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Speaker 1: the red zone, and that's that was a big stat
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Speaker 1: you know early or I guess the kind of middle
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Speaker 1: early the middle of the season was you know, out
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Speaker 1: of four or five red zone trips, we had a
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Speaker 1: bunch of turnovers inside the twenty. So obviously if you
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Speaker 1: turn it over, that's a wasted possession in the red zone. So, um,
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Speaker 1: we've eliminated those. And then I think we've been a
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Speaker 1: lot better on first and second down keeping our it's
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Speaker 1: because it's hard to it's really hard to score when
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Speaker 1: you get yourself in third and long in the red zone.
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Speaker 1: Teams are just gonna kind of sit back, play zone,
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Speaker 1: run up, make the tackle. You know you can get it,
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Speaker 1: you can get some yards and get some back. That's
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Speaker 1: it's hard to you know, move the sticks or even
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Speaker 1: you know, to get an end zone when you're third
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Speaker 1: and long. So I think we've done a good job
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Speaker 1: of staying ahead of the chains um and there's there's
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Speaker 1: other things too, but I think those are the two
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Speaker 1: main things. And then to today coordinators. Thursday, all three
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Speaker 1: coordinators with the Jaguar spoke with the media, starting with
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Press Taylor discussing the quarterbacks play at the
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Speaker 1: confidence level of number sixteen. I don't know if i'd
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Speaker 1: go through and compare every single game and how he's played.
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Speaker 1: There's been spurts here and there are different things. Certainly
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter really that that last drive, he just
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Speaker 1: got hot and you could kind of see in the
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Speaker 1: way he threw the ball, the conviction he had his
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Speaker 1: back foot, left the ball rip, put it to the
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Speaker 1: spot where really it was his guys or nobody. And
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of those throws that were seems
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Speaker 1: like long handoffs where he just kind of he saw
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Speaker 1: that confidence just pouring out in the way he played
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Speaker 1: and the way he left the ball rip and the
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Speaker 1: belief in what he was doing at the line. On defense,
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Speaker 1: linebacker Chad MoMA made his starting debut last week at
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Speaker 1: that position. Could be the case again this week. Defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator might call, well, I thought you had did a
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Speaker 1: good job. He went out there, played a lot of energy,
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Speaker 1: made and played for us. Uh. I think he calmed
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Speaker 1: everything down at times. He helped player out a bunch.
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Speaker 1: So UH did a good talk and going forward, you know,
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Speaker 1: just uh continue to get better. Uh, just uh find
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Speaker 1: his niche in his defense. And then two special teams
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Speaker 1: he's farwell speaking with the media today, the special teams
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Speaker 1: coordinator and last week punter Logan. Cook had three punts
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Speaker 1: for a fifty five point three NED average. He's super talented,
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Speaker 1: works at it every day. Um, you know, some of
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Speaker 1: those those punchs you just don't see, especially seeing three
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Speaker 1: of them. You know, you'll see a seventy R punt
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Speaker 1: once in a while, and it's it's spectacular that alone
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Speaker 1: have three of them. Uh, it's pretty special. And um,
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Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a it's something he works
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Speaker 1: at all the time. And then to have DT go
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Speaker 1: down there and down that one at the two is uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, just made it even better. So those are
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Speaker 1: you know, we're what we're able to watch a very
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Speaker 1: very talented punter and uh, you know, pro Bowl talent.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know if you know, hopefully
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Speaker 1: this is his year. If it's not, h he deserves it.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a special player. We're lucky
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Speaker 1: to have. I was unfortunate at to have him here.
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Speaker 1: You got you know, the Jacksonville Jaguars draft them and
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Speaker 1: I just walk into a spectacular player. Well, of course,
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Speaker 1: Cook second in the NFL and gross average, fifth in
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Speaker 1: net average. That's fourth best in the a f C.
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Speaker 1: All the press conferences available on Jaguars dot Com and
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Speaker 1: more with head coach Doug Peterson coming up at five o'clock.
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Speaker 1: I'm a Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars analyst Jeff Logman with us now and here we are.
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Speaker 1: It's been it's been a little while since we've been
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Speaker 1: on Thursdays together. What's up man? Yeah? What bye week? Thanksgiving? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. They're a hurricane or something in
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Speaker 1: there too, yeah, probably, Yeah, like that. It's been a
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Speaker 1: little while. Yeah, it's good to be back. Good to
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Speaker 1: be back, and to have a victory like that. That
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Speaker 1: was good. It was really good, and it was a
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Speaker 1: really great game. I mean eight lead changes in the game,
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Speaker 1: three of them in the fourth quarter. We've seen that
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Speaker 1: some but i haven't been able to come out on top.
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Speaker 1: But they did it. Two minute drive, got it done,
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Speaker 1: gave up the lead once got it back, funk down
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Speaker 1: the field, big throws from the quarterback and and that's
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Speaker 1: really the big thing that comes out of the game
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Speaker 1: is the play of Trevor Lawrence and especially in a
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Speaker 1: clutch moment like that, to come through with some big
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Speaker 1: time throws finishing the end zone and then the two
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Speaker 1: point play, the guts to go for it and then
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Speaker 1: execute the play on top of it. Well, the big
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Speaker 1: time throws, but then also there were some throws that
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Speaker 1: that I would say that weren't big time throws. But
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Speaker 1: you can see that he's made progress and learned from
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Speaker 1: in the past. You know, you'd go back to that
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Speaker 1: game in London against the never Broncos and he throws
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Speaker 1: the interception on what's supposed to be a little speed
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Speaker 1: out to have an ingram. Yeah, the exact same play
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Speaker 1: called before the end of the half, and this time
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Speaker 1: he throws it out abound so that he preserves the
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Speaker 1: three points for his football team. Late in the ball game,
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Speaker 1: he had a third and twenty one play after a
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Speaker 1: sack that you needed to make and it was four
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Speaker 1: down situation, so you had two downs, and in the
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Speaker 1: past you would see Trevor try to force a ball
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Speaker 1: down the field to get all twenty one yards on
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Speaker 1: one throw, and he's learned from that, and so he
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Speaker 1: throws an underneath pass. You have an opportunity on a
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Speaker 1: third and manageable or excuse me, a fourth and manageable,
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Speaker 1: which is much better than thrown interception on the third
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Speaker 1: and long so I mean that was just it was
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Speaker 1: that there was so much good and then there was
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Speaker 1: probably eight or nine throws in that ball game that
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Speaker 1: I think we're just franchise level quarterback throws that you
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Speaker 1: just you just don't find people that can make day
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Speaker 1: in and day out, And that to me was the
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Speaker 1: most encouraging thing. There is always a little bit of
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Speaker 1: good fortune, okay, that happens along the way. For example,
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Speaker 1: there was a third night and he throws the ball
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguar sideline. It bounces out of the hands
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Speaker 1: of the raven safety Geno Stone, which could have ended
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Speaker 1: the comeback. You had a sack calls fumbled by Calais
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Speaker 1: Campbell that was recovered by your center, which if it
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Speaker 1: was recovered by the Ravens, could have ended the comeback.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but sometimes you gotta have a little bit
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Speaker 1: of that to go the right. But overaw, I mean
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Speaker 1: it was it was a fantastic performance. And I said
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Speaker 1: this at the end of the ball game. We just
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Speaker 1: saw that moment. When I say that, what I mean
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Speaker 1: by that moment is that we really saw him come
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Speaker 1: to form of a franchise quarterback because that was big time,
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Speaker 1: big time performance and it had been building up over
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Speaker 1: the month of November. I mean, the guy in the
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Speaker 1: three games in November has been fantastic seventies seven percent passing,
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Speaker 1: six touchdowns, no interceptions, including the game this past week.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I'm sure he was a candidate for Player
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Speaker 1: of the Month. Not quite going to get to that level,
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Speaker 1: but it had been building up and he finally comes
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Speaker 1: through for a big performance and a win and a
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Speaker 1: two minute drive on top of that. To get it done,
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Speaker 1: he had to have some help along the way though.
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Speaker 1: Logs and Za Jones had a career day fourteen targets,
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Speaker 1: eleven catches, a career high in yardage as well all
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Speaker 1: career highs, and the game winning two point conversion on
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Speaker 1: a fastball out to the left. Yeah. He Uh, the
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Speaker 1: catches that he made were tremendous. There was one that
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Speaker 1: that they made where he's running a real shallow cross
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Speaker 1: and it's not as deep as it's really designed to
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Speaker 1: be because he got pushed to the inside and he
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Speaker 1: when you watch it on film, he's maybe three or
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Speaker 1: four yards passed the line of scrimmage. Trevor's dropped back.
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Speaker 1: Trevor throws that he's got an offensive line kind of
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Speaker 1: blocking the site picture as the ball is coming and
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Speaker 1: zay one hands it. I mean, first of all, how
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Speaker 1: did he see that number one? Trevor is so close
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to say it was a fastball,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't. It wasn't a changeup, okay, so it
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Speaker 1: wasn't slow. And to find the ball to make the
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Speaker 1: catch one handed, I mean it was. It was tremendous.
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Speaker 1: The route that he ran on a fourth and uh
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Speaker 1: fourth and eight, I believe it was a little flag
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Speaker 1: route he ran that was just perfect. And Trevor put
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Speaker 1: the ball in there. That's one of those franchise throws
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Speaker 1: that he had, the two point conversion. That's a makes
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Speaker 1: because outstretched arms, that's not an easy catch to make
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Speaker 1: and he secures it. And that was an absolute dart
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Speaker 1: by Trevor. Another franchise level throw right there, you know.
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Speaker 1: So it was impressive, It was fun and man was
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Speaker 1: this place rocking. I mean it was just absolutely rocking.
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Speaker 1: Great to see. Certainly we'll get to the Lions coming up,
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Speaker 1: and just a little bit of course, the Jaguars visit
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Speaker 1: Detroit this week. Let's flip it to defense now logs
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Speaker 1: and against the Ravens last week they employed a few
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Speaker 1: different new er looks, a few three safeties, a little
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Speaker 1: bit in the game, three linebackers in the game. How
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Speaker 1: much of that is a one week game plan thing,
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Speaker 1: and how much of that might stick depending on the opponent. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think with with the wingered package, I wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: surprised if that stays a little bit depending on the
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Speaker 1: personnel of the opponent. Because Winger made a big time play. Look,
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Speaker 1: you come back in, you cause the fumble, and uh
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Speaker 1: all sudden after that cause fumble. You end up taking
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Speaker 1: that and kind of getting back into the um because
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Speaker 1: here it is where you when you had that, that
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Speaker 1: was you were. You were down seventeen nineteen. He caused
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Speaker 1: the fumble, then you take the lead off of that.
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Speaker 1: And and what was impressive about that play by Dewey
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Speaker 1: Winger was it's a say it's a nickel blitz. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and I keep saying safety because he's a safety, but
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Speaker 1: he's essentially playing the nickel position. It's a nickel blitz.
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Speaker 1: He's coming off the outside edge and as he's tracking
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Speaker 1: to kind of come around the corner or bend the
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Speaker 1: corner around the tackle to run play instead of continuing
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Speaker 1: that track and trying to run it down from behind.
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Speaker 1: He realizes that he can't catch it, so then he
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Speaker 1: changes his angle, plants his foot, and then comes downhill
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Speaker 1: to retreat the intercept the running back once he gets
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Speaker 1: through the line of scrimmage, because he's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to make an impact on the play before he
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Speaker 1: gets the line of scrimmage and he's it's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be an impact at all. The awareness that he has
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Speaker 1: on that angle him and changing his angle of attack
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Speaker 1: was great. And then the awareness of going for the
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Speaker 1: ball in that situation that was great. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: when you make plays like that, then you earn more
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Speaker 1: time in that role that you're asked to do. And
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Speaker 1: I think we'll see some more of him again, that's
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Speaker 1: going to be dependent upon personnel. But here's the reason
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Speaker 1: why you've got a cornerback issue. Okay, that's a reality.
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Speaker 1: You have a corner issue. The play of your corners
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Speaker 1: is not what you need or what you expected at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. All right, let's go through
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Speaker 1: that then. I mean, obviously chat Griffin still and I
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Speaker 1: are and well there's one guy that's not available, was
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Speaker 1: down last week and that's kind of part of Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's look at what we're doing and self evaluate during
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Speaker 1: the bye week and see where we can get better.
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Speaker 1: They make a decision there that they're gonna try to
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Speaker 1: get better with somebody else. Okay, So now you've got
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Speaker 1: Tavon Campbell as an option, You've got Montereic Brown, Buster
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Speaker 1: Brown an option. Um, Tyson Campbell's out there, Chris Claybrooks,
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about guys to kind of fill in
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Speaker 1: behind Tyson Campbell and Darius Williams. So I don't think
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Speaker 1: they're overly impressed with any of those options. And Darius
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Speaker 1: Williams is not playing that great, to be honest with you.
13:21
Speaker 1: He's spent a lot of money on Darius Williams and
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Speaker 1: free agency, and I mean the reality is he's not
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Speaker 1: playing that well. You know. And if you look at
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Speaker 1: it from a number standpoint, to give folks an idea,
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Speaker 1: if you look at corners in the National Football League, corners, Okay,
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Speaker 1: PFF's got him rated at like one oh four. I
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Speaker 1: mean that's not a good ranking. Okay, that's corner alone
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Speaker 1: one oh four. So you're trying to find some answers
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Speaker 1: with with the back end and so putting wingered in
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Speaker 1: as a nickel is something like, hey, look, let's try
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Speaker 1: the other package that they ran in that game that
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Speaker 1: was a little different. They had a three five. Look, okay,
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Speaker 1: in the three five was three big guys Devon Hamilton,
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Speaker 1: Roy Robertson, Harris fought Acasi, and then he had five
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Speaker 1: linebackers Josh Allen, Trayvon Walker on the outside, and then
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Speaker 1: you had Muma, loukn and Lloyd as the three kind
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Speaker 1: of floating linebackers. Then he had two safeties and only
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Speaker 1: one corner. That's actually the personnel that you had on
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Speaker 1: the field when DeShawn Jackson caught the sixty two yarder,
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Speaker 1: which you know, the execution of that coverage wasn't very good,
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Speaker 1: but in on that play, right, yeah, Cisco got caught
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Speaker 1: a little bit inside. But here here, here's why that
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Speaker 1: play happened. Really, the foundation of why it happens. DeShawn
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Speaker 1: Jackson is on the right side of the offensive formation,
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Speaker 1: and and he's running kind of like what we call
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Speaker 1: a racer route all the way across the formation to
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Speaker 1: the other side of the field. That can't happen if
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Speaker 1: you've got some pass rush. Okay, it's just it takes
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Speaker 1: too long to develop. The Jaguars only have a three
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Speaker 1: man rush. They dropped tray Von and almost like a
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Speaker 1: spy robber kind of look to maybe do both, you know,
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Speaker 1: to maybe robin interception or to help out and shallow
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Speaker 1: underneath coverage, or two to be the the chaser of
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson if you were to break out of the pocket,
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Speaker 1: so that gives Lamar Jackson plenty of time to stay
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Speaker 1: in the pocket, which allows that long route to develop.
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Speaker 1: And then he he throws a great ball, throws a
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Speaker 1: great ball, But you'd like to not have that play
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Speaker 1: happen at that moment and hindsight being, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you'd want to be in that personnel. We'll come
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Speaker 1: back in a moment and move forward. The Detroit Lions
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Speaker 1: up next at Ford Field, a little more into the
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Speaker 1: defense as well. Chad MoMA's day, his first start. He
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Speaker 1: played every step and we gotta go special teams JP.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's look I thought, special teams Logan Cook.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we can't we can do a show. I know,
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Speaker 1: we can't do a show without talking about that because
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Speaker 1: he's he's arguably over the last three years or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and did you, by the chance, by chance, did you
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Speaker 1: see the Detroit Lines Press released the game released for
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Speaker 1: this week? Yeah, that's awesome of it. Okay, well you
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Speaker 1: must Did you see the part about their punter? You
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Speaker 1: haven't gotten that far. We'll talk about that, Okay when
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Speaker 1: we come. Okay, I can't wait. We're back in a
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff log I'm the Jaguars of the Lions.
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Speaker 1: Coming up. That's Sunday at one o'clock. Today at five o'clock,
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Speaker 1: it's the Doug Peterson Show. We'll hear from the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Head Coach. Coming up a little less than forty minutes
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Speaker 1: from right now. Looking forward to that. What does you
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Speaker 1: really want to talk about punters today? They are people too. Well. Uh,
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Speaker 1: first of all, Logan Cook had a fantastic game. He
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Speaker 1: did which was the longest in league history. I believe,
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Speaker 1: a sixty eight point seven gross average, which is the
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Speaker 1: most in NFL history for a minimum of three punts
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Speaker 1: in a game, which that's amazing. His net average in
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Speaker 1: the game was fifty five point three. Well, while perusing
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions game release, they're trying to build up
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Speaker 1: their punter, Jack Fox, who is an average punter in
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Speaker 1: the league this year, but they're trying to build them
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Speaker 1: up a little bit more. And so they have this
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Speaker 1: stat that's on their release and it says NFL punting
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Speaker 1: Average leaders in the NFL since and Jack Fox is
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Speaker 1: number six with a net average of forty two point nine.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. That's pretty good. It's not bad, right. Uh, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's kind of work our way to the top. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Number five is Townsend of Kansas. City Way of Washington
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Speaker 1: is at three, and Anger is also tied at three
18:21
Speaker 1: with Dallas. Dixon from Seattle is at number two, and
18:25
Speaker 1: oh oh oh, who's number one? That would be um
18:30
Speaker 1: Logan Cook would be number one with a forty three
18:34
Speaker 1: point six that average since best in the league. That's impressive.
18:39
Speaker 1: It is. He's been punning well, yes, Pro Bowl type
18:43
Speaker 1: of player, and he's having a great year. And if
18:46
Speaker 1: if he had gotten a little assist okay, with that
18:51
Speaker 1: ball being down at the goal line, the one that
18:53
Speaker 1: went into the end zone that was touched and I
18:55
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was, if you got a little
18:58
Speaker 1: bit of help in that situation, that that net average
19:01
Speaker 1: could have been sixty plus. That's impressive. That would have
19:05
Speaker 1: been impressive for sure. This week, Let's hope we don't
19:08
Speaker 1: see him much because that means the Jaguars offense is
19:10
Speaker 1: up and down the field in the Motor City against
19:13
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, and it's a similar looking feeling set
19:18
Speaker 1: up for the Lions, though they are a little further
19:20
Speaker 1: back in their division. Of course, four and seven is
19:23
Speaker 1: good for second place in the NFC North, but the
19:25
Speaker 1: Vikings are running away with it. But boy, this Lions
19:28
Speaker 1: team runs the football. That's their best rushing output through
19:33
Speaker 1: eleven games since I think Barry Sanders was on the team,
19:38
Speaker 1: and that's been a long time. They've got a couple
19:40
Speaker 1: of good running backs big, physical offensive line, and the
19:44
Speaker 1: quarterback is throwing pretty well off of all that. So
19:47
Speaker 1: it's an offense that can can punch you in the mouth. Well,
19:51
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks getting some great coaching. I can tell you
19:53
Speaker 1: that Jared Goff Mark Bernell is their quarterbacks coach in Detroit,
19:59
Speaker 1: and and they definitely run the ball very well. Looking
20:03
Speaker 1: at their rankings, are top ten running team. They've got
20:05
Speaker 1: two really good backs, Jamal Williams DeAndre Swift, and DeAndre
20:09
Speaker 1: Swift is kind of that change of pace back. Jamal
20:12
Speaker 1: Williams is kind of the workhorse guy, the pounderdowns thirteen
20:17
Speaker 1: rushing thirteen rushing touchdowns, which kind of put that in perspective.
20:22
Speaker 1: You know, you talked about Barry Sanders meant to go
20:26
Speaker 1: back in time a little bit. Barry Sanders actually rushed
20:29
Speaker 1: for sixteen rush touchdowns and fourteen and nine. So just
20:33
Speaker 1: to put a little perspective, Jamal Williams having thirteen rushing
20:37
Speaker 1: touchdowns already, I mean, that's that's impressive. Their offensive line
20:42
Speaker 1: is very good when they're healthy. They haven't been healthy
20:46
Speaker 1: or they weren't healthy on Thanksgiving. Okay, Penney sold the
20:50
Speaker 1: right tackle first round pick last year. Really good player. Okay,
20:56
Speaker 1: they're left tackle Taylor Decker really good player, good enough
21:00
Speaker 1: that Penny Sewel is not going to supplant and they
21:02
Speaker 1: didn't even try to put Penny Seuel as the left tackle.
21:07
Speaker 1: The guards have been a little bit banged up. Okay.
21:09
Speaker 1: Jonah Jackson, who is their normal starting left guard, had
21:13
Speaker 1: a concussion, was inactive on Thanksgiving Day. Their right guard,
21:16
Speaker 1: Evan Brown was inactive because of an ankle on Thanksgiving Day.
21:19
Speaker 1: That a couple of backups in there. But the tackles
21:22
Speaker 1: are two of the best in the league. Okay, Seul
21:25
Speaker 1: is a ten rated tackle. Just to give people in
21:28
Speaker 1: an idea on PFF, Taylor Decker is a little thirties. Okay,
21:32
Speaker 1: if you compare that to the Jaguars, Penny, uh, what
21:36
Speaker 1: do you mean by that goes great? What is that?
21:37
Speaker 1: That's amongst all tackles that that take a minimum snaps
21:42
Speaker 1: in the league. Okay, just to give people an idea
21:45
Speaker 1: out of tackles alone, Okay, Penny Seul is rated at ten.
21:52
Speaker 1: That's incredibly high. That's all tackles, left tackles, right tackles,
21:55
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Yeah, Okay, Taylor Decker is at thirty three
22:01
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Okay. Compare that to the Jaguars. Cam
22:05
Speaker 1: Robinson's at fifty Joan Taylor's at one, and look, I
22:11
Speaker 1: get the PFF. Sometimes it's not the end all be
22:13
Speaker 1: all about the evaluation and stuff, but it gives people
22:16
Speaker 1: an idea. But this offensive line is really good. Those
22:19
Speaker 1: tackles are good. The center Rack mc now is is
22:22
Speaker 1: a top five center in the league. And with those
22:25
Speaker 1: two guards, the two guards are not uh. I would
22:29
Speaker 1: call them two of the best guards in the league
22:32
Speaker 1: if you looked at both of them. Okay, just give
22:34
Speaker 1: people a united Jackson's a ten rated guard. Evan Brown
22:37
Speaker 1: is a twenty Okay, so twenty best guard in the league.
22:41
Speaker 1: I mean, so these guys are good now and if
22:44
Speaker 1: they're healthy, with those two backs that they have, and
22:47
Speaker 1: most importantly Detroit's commitment to being physical, this is this
22:54
Speaker 1: is not an easy game, and the Jaguars have been
22:57
Speaker 1: started the season out really good against the run. I
23:01
Speaker 1: think this defense is trying to find its identity, still
23:04
Speaker 1: still trying to find out who they are. And at
23:08
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, they established themselves that they
23:11
Speaker 1: were gonna be a team that was going to be
23:13
Speaker 1: able to stop the run, but there's been a couple
23:15
Speaker 1: of games that haven't been great about stopping the run.
23:18
Speaker 1: So this is a challenging week in a lot of
23:21
Speaker 1: different ways. With the run commitment that the Detroit lines have,
23:26
Speaker 1: with the talent that they have on the offensive line,
23:28
Speaker 1: and then they have a quarterback behind them that's getting
23:30
Speaker 1: coached up and it's playing pretty solid. So it's the
23:34
Speaker 1: front seven. How do you how do you match up
23:36
Speaker 1: against that? I mean, how do you You You know they're
23:38
Speaker 1: coming at you? You know, you know they're gonna be physical.
23:40
Speaker 1: They're not gonna run around you. They're running at you.
23:43
Speaker 1: There's no secret. I just gotta you gotta win. You're
23:45
Speaker 1: one on ones and make tackles, and you gotta populate
23:48
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, you hear all these terms that
23:50
Speaker 1: people talk about coaches talk about coach speak, but it's
23:53
Speaker 1: it's all true. And if you if you, if you
23:57
Speaker 1: don't stop their running game, you're gonna have a long day.
24:00
Speaker 1: If you allow did the Detroit Lions offensive line to
24:03
Speaker 1: control the tempo of the game, You're gonna be in
24:06
Speaker 1: for a long day. Because the reality is is that, look,
24:10
Speaker 1: this Detroit Lions team and a lot of people like
24:12
Speaker 1: to make fun of. They almost beat the Buffalo Bills
24:14
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. They had him on the rope. Okay, they've
24:17
Speaker 1: won three out of their last four games. Okay, this
24:19
Speaker 1: is a good football team. They're playing good. And I
24:22
Speaker 1: get that they haven't been great in the past, but
24:25
Speaker 1: this is a team that's playing well, so you better
24:28
Speaker 1: be ready to play against him. Jared Goff off. That
24:31
Speaker 1: running game is playing well lately. Also, we just looked
24:34
Speaker 1: at Trevor Lawrence's numbers over the last month, but in
24:37
Speaker 1: that same time frame, similar time frame, Jared goff has
24:40
Speaker 1: been making some throws too. And and monros st Brown
24:43
Speaker 1: is playing well on the outside, his wide receiver, and hey,
24:47
Speaker 1: that connection off that running game that gives them something
24:50
Speaker 1: to And the guy's the first round pick, number one
24:52
Speaker 1: overall pick quarterback back in sixteen, got the Rams to
24:55
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. He has some talent at quarterback, and
24:58
Speaker 1: he's looking He's been in a couple of Pro Bowls.
24:59
Speaker 1: I'm mean, he's been there, kind of done that, and
25:03
Speaker 1: I looked there. I think as a football team, he
25:06
Speaker 1: he still needs more weapons. They're building to the future.
25:10
Speaker 1: Is he the answer? I think if you built a
25:13
Speaker 1: really good team around him. He could be the answer.
25:15
Speaker 1: But is he gonna be one of those franchise guys
25:18
Speaker 1: that can put a team on his back and carry
25:21
Speaker 1: him to a Super Bowl win? If he was that,
25:23
Speaker 1: do you think Sean McVeigh would have traded him away
25:26
Speaker 1: to get somebody else? Know and and they. I thought
25:31
Speaker 1: that the Detroit Lions did a really good job their
25:35
Speaker 1: executive vice president general manager Brad Holmes when he got
25:38
Speaker 1: in there last year. He traded away Matthew Stafford and
25:43
Speaker 1: it acquired Jared Goff added I think two first round
25:46
Speaker 1: picks and then another I wrote it down third. Yeah,
25:50
Speaker 1: so you got two first round picks, a third round pick,
25:53
Speaker 1: and then Jared golf And for where the Lions were at,
25:57
Speaker 1: which they weren't gonna win a super Bowl in the
25:59
Speaker 1: time time frame needed for Matthew Stafford, I thought that
26:03
Speaker 1: was a really good deal for the Lions, really good
26:07
Speaker 1: to pick up some draft capital, to get an established,
26:11
Speaker 1: proven quarterback in exchange to still to still to I mean,
26:16
Speaker 1: to get the quarterback and to still have two extra
26:19
Speaker 1: first round picks and in a third round pick. I mean,
26:23
Speaker 1: I think that's smart football. We'll come back in a moment,
26:26
Speaker 1: We'll get into the Lions defense. And yes, the top
26:30
Speaker 1: two draft picks from the NFL Draft on the field
26:33
Speaker 1: this week. Not against each other, of course. Trayvon Walker
26:36
Speaker 1: and Adan Hutchinson will get logs thoughts on those two
26:40
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Speaker 1: It's Week thirteen. The Jaguars faced the Lions coming up
27:21
Speaker 1: this Sunday at Ford Field, both teams at four and seven,
27:25
Speaker 1: the winner in a little better shape, of course. Both
27:28
Speaker 1: teams trending the right way. Detroit at one three in
27:31
Speaker 1: a row before they lost on Thanksgiving to the Bills.
27:34
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have won two of the last three. The
27:37
Speaker 1: quarterbacks playing well really for both sides. The run game
27:40
Speaker 1: there for Detroit should be a pretty good matchup, I think.
27:43
Speaker 1: This Sunday and time now for the injury report presented
27:46
Speaker 1: by Baptist Health and the Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute, the official
27:50
Speaker 1: sports medicine provider of the Jacksonville Jaguars. And the Jags,
27:55
Speaker 1: by the way, going into this have the fewest amount
27:58
Speaker 1: of players used in a game in the NFL this year,
28:01
Speaker 1: fifty eight. That means that they haven't had many guys
28:04
Speaker 1: on the injury report a lot this year. They haven't
28:06
Speaker 1: had to bring in a lot of rotate guys in
28:08
Speaker 1: and all that. So that's knock on wood. Great job
28:11
Speaker 1: by the players first of all to stay as healthy
28:14
Speaker 1: as possible, to athletic training staff and the and the
28:17
Speaker 1: medical staff of the team as well. But the Jaguarson
28:20
Speaker 1: and the strength and conditioning staff all the above, yes,
28:23
Speaker 1: all the above, all that group. There are four players
28:26
Speaker 1: on the list this week, three actually now. Roy Robertson
28:29
Speaker 1: Harris was out yesterday with an illness. He was back
28:31
Speaker 1: full today. He's good to go. Travis et En Junior,
28:34
Speaker 1: the foot issue limited yesterday and again today, z A
28:39
Speaker 1: Jones a chest issue limited yesterday and again today, and
28:43
Speaker 1: Andre Cisco the safety shoulder issue limited Wednesday and Thursday.
28:49
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's pretty I mean, that's very
28:51
Speaker 1: healthy for this time of year to only have four
28:54
Speaker 1: guys and and everybody's limited. You don't have guys out.
28:58
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's this team has been and again
29:02
Speaker 1: very fortunate this year. Is this would I think this
29:05
Speaker 1: desk is what it's particle and it's sandwiched in there
29:10
Speaker 1: would Okay, that's fine, Yes, at least I think it
29:13
Speaker 1: has some particle wood in there somewhere. Um, the Lions
29:17
Speaker 1: have a handful of guys actually limited or out or
29:21
Speaker 1: not practicing. Uh this week. Jeff Okuda, coming off a concussion,
29:27
Speaker 1: has been limited for two days. The cornerback, former first
29:29
Speaker 1: round pick missed last season with an achilles okay, right now,
29:34
Speaker 1: the center with a foot issue limited both days. That's
29:37
Speaker 1: that's no, he'd look if he can't play now, I mean, look,
29:40
Speaker 1: they were missing. There's two starting guards last week, and
29:43
Speaker 1: if rag now can't go this week and the guards
29:45
Speaker 1: continue to have an issue, that could be a major
29:49
Speaker 1: disadvantage for the Lions, the let's see who and then
29:54
Speaker 1: they would have to do for By the way, just
29:56
Speaker 1: with rag Now, I believe that Evan if Evan Evan
29:59
Speaker 1: Brown is your backup center to Ragnow. Well, Evan Brown
30:02
Speaker 1: didn't play last week, and so if rag Now has
30:05
Speaker 1: an injury this week and that becomes a problem, they
30:08
Speaker 1: could end up being onto their third center. I think
30:11
Speaker 1: Ragnow is gonna be fine, but just something to think
30:15
Speaker 1: about there and to keep an eye on Evin Brown
30:18
Speaker 1: ankle has not practiced Wednesday or Thursday. It's correct saying
30:23
Speaker 1: he was inactive this past thanksgive But they also with
30:29
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving game, this Detroit Lions team is going to
30:32
Speaker 1: be able to get a little extra rest, get a
30:34
Speaker 1: little extra healed up in advance of the Jaguars game.
30:38
Speaker 1: Do you have it? Um? That's a look at the
30:41
Speaker 1: baster's health injury reports. And hey, you know we mentioned
30:45
Speaker 1: that the Lions defense and we haven't really touched on
30:48
Speaker 1: that group too much as of yet. I mean, the
30:52
Speaker 1: name everybody's gonna go focus on is Aidan Hutchinson. Yes,
30:55
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. He six ft seventy stands out in the crowd.
30:58
Speaker 1: He's a rookie he's the number two overall pick. But
31:01
Speaker 1: what else, as before we get into that, what else
31:04
Speaker 1: does this Lion's defense have to offer as a whole. Well,
31:07
Speaker 1: they're not very good. I think you got to start
31:10
Speaker 1: with that. The numbers speak for themselves. There thirty second
31:15
Speaker 1: in the league, and points allowed thirty second in the league,
31:18
Speaker 1: and yards allowed there thirty second in the league. And
31:22
Speaker 1: third down percentage. So they're a defense that's been struggling
31:27
Speaker 1: and that's been a topic of conversation with Dan Campbell
31:30
Speaker 1: for a long period of time. Aaron Glenn, their defensive coordinator,
31:33
Speaker 1: former NFL cornerback, played for the Jets, played here for
31:36
Speaker 1: a little bit, I believe too was here. I think
31:38
Speaker 1: he played here for a little bit anyway, might have
31:40
Speaker 1: been here as a coach or he was here at
31:42
Speaker 1: some point. And uh, but yeah, they're young. Uh it's
31:46
Speaker 1: not just Adan Hutchinson young. They've got a safety and
31:50
Speaker 1: Kirby Joseph who is a rookie, the third round pick
31:55
Speaker 1: John Pascal, who is a second round pick defensive end
31:59
Speaker 1: plays opposite of Madan Hutchinson, although he was inactive last week.
32:03
Speaker 1: And then you have an inside linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez who
32:07
Speaker 1: is a six round pick out of Oklahoma State who
32:10
Speaker 1: is a rookie starting as well. I mean, so you've
32:11
Speaker 1: got a lot of young guys playing for Detroit and
32:14
Speaker 1: they're playing like a young defense. And I will say
32:17
Speaker 1: though the young players are pretty dog on good. I
32:20
Speaker 1: mean Hutchinson, we we'll get into him in a minute.
32:23
Speaker 1: Uh The safety Kirby Joseph's got three interceptions and two
32:27
Speaker 1: forced fumbles. I mean that's the heck of a number
32:29
Speaker 1: for rookie safety. And then the linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez, who
32:34
Speaker 1: was the pick overall, is a tackling machine, got great
32:38
Speaker 1: short area quickness. So, uh so Detroit is they're they're growing,
32:43
Speaker 1: you know, they're growing. They they were really bad earlier
32:46
Speaker 1: in the year and then they've gotten a little bit better,
32:48
Speaker 1: but they still got a ways to go to be
32:50
Speaker 1: a good defense. Now to the two big names from
32:55
Speaker 1: this year's NFL draft. In number one overall, of course,
32:59
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker to the Jacksonville Jaguars out of the University
33:02
Speaker 1: of Georgia. Number two overall, Aiden Hutchinson, defensive end out
33:07
Speaker 1: of the University of Michigan. So far, five and a
33:10
Speaker 1: half sacks, four tackles for lost ten quarterback hits a
33:13
Speaker 1: couple interceptions too. He's been impactful a lot of the
33:17
Speaker 1: season in more ways than one. Trayvon Walker off to
33:20
Speaker 1: a great start Week one, had the interception, a lot
33:24
Speaker 1: of impact. The statistical impact has not quite been as
33:28
Speaker 1: high as Aiden's. How have there How is the play
33:31
Speaker 1: of both players compared contrasted this year? This is only
33:35
Speaker 1: the beginning of these two guys being linked at the
33:39
Speaker 1: hip for really the rest of the career. The comparison
33:41
Speaker 1: is not gonna go away. I mean it's it's gonna
33:43
Speaker 1: be there for probably their entire careers, you know, because
33:47
Speaker 1: they were number one and number two overall. You're just
33:49
Speaker 1: not gonna get away from that. And if you look
33:51
Speaker 1: at the statistics right now, they're in Aiden Hutchinson's favor. Um,
33:58
Speaker 1: here's the number. So he's got five and a half
34:00
Speaker 1: sacks compared to Trayvon's two and a half. Quarterback hits,
34:03
Speaker 1: Hutchinson has ten, Trayvon has six tackle for losses, Hutchinson
34:08
Speaker 1: has four, Trayvon has three. Two interceptions for Hutchinson, one
34:12
Speaker 1: for Trayvon. The one category that Trayvon leads him in
34:16
Speaker 1: is that tackles. He has thirty seven, Hutchinson has thirty one,
34:21
Speaker 1: So you're not going to get away from the comparison.
34:23
Speaker 1: It will always be there. But they believe that Trayvon's ceiling,
34:29
Speaker 1: I believe is higher. Otherwise you wouldn't have picked him
34:31
Speaker 1: at number one overall. Now will that ceiling be in
34:35
Speaker 1: fact the higher in the future. We don't know that
34:39
Speaker 1: Hutchinson could be the better player in the future as well.
34:43
Speaker 1: Right now, Aiden Hutchinson, I would say, is the more
34:46
Speaker 1: impactful player. But I love the athleticism of Trayvon, but
34:51
Speaker 1: he's playing a position that he didn't really play at college,
34:55
Speaker 1: whereas Hutchinson is so naturally hutchins in it. I think
35:00
Speaker 1: it's farther along in the growth cycle than a than
35:04
Speaker 1: a Trayvon Walker. But I've always said this, if you
35:08
Speaker 1: really want a great draft picks, you gotta wait till
35:10
Speaker 1: like year three to really get an understanding of where
35:13
Speaker 1: they are, where they've been, and where they're headed at
35:16
Speaker 1: that point, because a lot of times in year one
35:18
Speaker 1: and year two, for whatever reason, the productivity can or
35:22
Speaker 1: cannot be there. But by year three you're gonna know.
35:26
Speaker 1: But people don't like to wait until you're three to
35:30
Speaker 1: compare a first overall and a second overall pick that
35:33
Speaker 1: are playing the same positions virtually, so right now, advantage alliance.
35:39
Speaker 1: I mean, same idea applies when you're talking about Devin Lloyd,
35:43
Speaker 1: right I mean, yes, he was a first round pick.
35:45
Speaker 1: I mean you really start grading it after year two
35:48
Speaker 1: or year three? Well, and this is this is uh
35:51
Speaker 1: is that different for you? Well, I mean with with
35:53
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, it's it's not encouraging when you have your
35:58
Speaker 1: seventh overall pick had has been put to the bench
36:02
Speaker 1: for a third round pick. That's never encouraging. I'm not
36:07
Speaker 1: willing to say that the jury has made its decision
36:10
Speaker 1: on on Devin Lloyd either now and again you're three,
36:15
Speaker 1: But I can tell you this, Chad mom is not
36:18
Speaker 1: giving up that linebacking position after performancy had last week.
36:21
Speaker 1: I don't think, um, Devin Lloyd has got to be
36:26
Speaker 1: able to because in the game this past week, Devin
36:30
Speaker 1: Lloyd was asked to be in that three linebacker role
36:32
Speaker 1: that I talked about. There were two different plays that
36:37
Speaker 1: he had to have I discipline and he had manned
36:40
Speaker 1: coverage on the tight end. One of them resulted in
36:43
Speaker 1: a touchdown, which was the touchdown that former Jaguar Titan
36:47
Speaker 1: Josh Oliver caught the other one. If you'll remember Um
36:52
Speaker 1: andrew the Titan for the Ravens. Mark Andrews dropped the
36:57
Speaker 1: touchdown in the end zone, Missisco closing in. If you'll
37:01
Speaker 1: remember it was in the south end zone. Hey, how
37:04
Speaker 1: was Devin lloynch guy? You know? So, if you can't
37:08
Speaker 1: have the eye discipline and you can't play man where
37:12
Speaker 1: you're covering that guy, you're gonna have a hard time
37:16
Speaker 1: getting on the field at all. So the question that
37:19
Speaker 1: I have is that after that performance that he just
37:23
Speaker 1: had where he had a couple of coverages that didn't execute,
37:29
Speaker 1: do you even put him out there next time? You know?
37:32
Speaker 1: Do you put somebody else out there. I'm not saying
37:33
Speaker 1: you make him inactive or anything, but I'm saying is that, Look,
37:36
Speaker 1: if you can't do that, then at some point you
37:40
Speaker 1: gotta let somebody else that can do that do that,
37:43
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean? But how do you
37:45
Speaker 1: learn how to do that without doing that practice? But
37:50
Speaker 1: you're not gonna You're not gonna sit there and go, okay, look,
37:53
Speaker 1: you know, look he's our first round pick. We're just
37:54
Speaker 1: gonna keep playing him, if he can't perform, if he
37:57
Speaker 1: doesn't execute. You know, at some point there has to
38:00
Speaker 1: be the accountability for your performance, and if the performance
38:05
Speaker 1: is not where it needs to be, then the accountability
38:08
Speaker 1: says that somebody else is gonna be asked to do
38:10
Speaker 1: the job. I mean, that's just the way the NFL is.
38:13
Speaker 1: I mean, there are no scholarships in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: in your case, I guess so. Jaguars Lions In Week thirteen,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have lost a bunch of a road to
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Speaker 1: NFC teams. Oddly enough, they've lost a bunch of a
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Speaker 1: road to a lot of teams over the years, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: but that's the way it's gone against NFC teams trying
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Speaker 1: to snap that skilled eighteen in a row. Now, either way,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson this week is like, yeah, that doesn't do
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Speaker 1: anything for us. That's a brand new team, brand new organization.
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Speaker 1: So but it is they've got they got the same
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Speaker 1: thing going on Detroit. There's no doubt about it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they've been winless in like the last eleven games against
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Speaker 1: a FC opponents, like the last four or five drafts
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Speaker 1: here seems have been in the top ten drafting that
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Speaker 1: the reality is that neither team has been very good late,
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Speaker 1: and so there has a been a lot of games won.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, there's all kinds of streets, but it
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Speaker 1: also means that this can be He's not going to
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Speaker 1: call it a true swing game, but hey, like I
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Speaker 1: said earlier, five and seven is much better than four
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Speaker 1: and eight, certainly for the Jaguars trying to make a
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Speaker 1: run late. The Lions might be a little It's tough
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Speaker 1: in that division obviously, but well, hey, you get you
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Speaker 1: get to four and seven teams this late with a chance,
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Speaker 1: you gotta go win this game. Both teams can keep
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Speaker 1: their playoff hopes alive by winning this game. So this
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Speaker 1: game has a lot of importance to both teams. And
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Speaker 1: and here's the reality. This might be one of the
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Speaker 1: most ignored games that there is in the National Football
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Speaker 1: League this week because it's with, you know, the small
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Speaker 1: market Jaguars, who have had the worst record in football
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Speaker 1: for the last two years, and it's against the Detroit Lions,
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Speaker 1: who were the second worst team in the National Football
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Speaker 1: League last year. But the reality is that you've got
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Speaker 1: a a Lins team that has won three out of
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Speaker 1: their last four. You've got a Jaguars football team that's
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Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's it's starting to show some signs
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Speaker 1: of coming of age of a franchise quarterback. And at
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Speaker 1: both teams are trying to keep their playoff hopes a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, this game, even though it is going
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Speaker 1: to be largely ignored by most NFL football fans, this
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Speaker 1: game is actually it's gonna be a good football I think.
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Speaker 1: So they match up pretty well together. They're like you said,
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Speaker 1: to your point, there are some bigger if you will there,
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Speaker 1: Every game is a big game in the NFL. I
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Speaker 1: got a big game of Night, the Patriots in Buffalo
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Speaker 1: Bill huge right in that division, and then the Jets
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Speaker 1: of the Vikings. Later you got the Titans at the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: You've got the Dolphins at the Niners. Big game there
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Speaker 1: of course, the Chiefs and the Bengals. I mean, those
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Speaker 1: are some big, big games. This big games. This may
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Speaker 1: not be that level, but these teams, it's a big
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Speaker 1: swing day and and here and here's the reality. Look,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars won two out of the last three lines
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Speaker 1: through out the last four. The fan bases feel like, okay,
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Speaker 1: our teams are making progress. Right, So this is a
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Speaker 1: game I think that both fan bases are are going
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Speaker 1: to be watching very closely, and as they should because
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Speaker 1: if if, whichever team wins, has got has got the
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Speaker 1: opportunity for having some meaningful games down the stretch. And
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Speaker 1: it's been a long time for either team since they've
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Speaker 1: had meaningful games down the stretch, And for the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: from that perspective, if those games are to be meaningful,
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Speaker 1: they will most likely be on the road. This is
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Speaker 1: the start of four out of the next five away
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Speaker 1: from t i A a bank Field the Cowboys game
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Speaker 1: here in a couple of weeks. But um, that's that's
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Speaker 1: tough stretch in December. That Cowboys game is gonna be packed. Yeah,
44:44
Speaker 1: Cowboys are good and they're the Cowboys. Yeah, and hopefully
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars are, you know, right there knocking on the
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Speaker 1: door first place. By that point, well, to be interesting
44:53
Speaker 1: to see too if the Cowboys have added a wide
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Speaker 1: receiver between now and net. Well. The other question too,
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Speaker 1: is this trend for the Jaguars offense is playing well,
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks playing well. Can that carry on the road these
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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks This week Detroit, next week in Nashville.
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Speaker 1: Can it? Yes? But here's something I really believe that
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Speaker 1: has to happen. This This defense has to kind of
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Speaker 1: find it's footing because I think they're still try like
45:21
Speaker 1: I said we were talking about earlier about they're trying
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Speaker 1: to to get squared away at a couple of positions,
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Speaker 1: you know, the linebacking position, which now that Chad moments
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Speaker 1: in their Okay, you feel good about the performance last week,
45:31
Speaker 1: You've got some things being tried with safeties and corners
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Speaker 1: and different multiple defensive backpackages. Can you settle that down
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Speaker 1: in the reality. Can you rush the passer? I mean,
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Speaker 1: right now, the coverage of this defense is not where
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Speaker 1: it needs to be. You're not rushing the passer at
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Speaker 1: a high level, and some of the issues are it's
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Speaker 1: gonna take time to get it fixed. It's gonna take
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Speaker 1: growth to get it fixed. But can you get it
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Speaker 1: fixed enough to get all a run? That's the question.
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Speaker 1: And his offense, I feel like, has been pretty consistent
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Speaker 1: weekend and week out. The Kansas City game looks a
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Speaker 1: little bit of an exception because you had a lot
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Speaker 1: of opportunities given to the offense with takeaway surprise on side,
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Speaker 1: kit great feel position. You weren't able to do that,
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Speaker 1: but you faced the Kansas City team that was really
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Speaker 1: good and arguably the best team in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: So I hope the defense can get to get some footing,
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Speaker 1: But the reality is that they still need They still
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Speaker 1: need some guys JP, they need some guys, find some guys.
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Speaker 1: The The good thing is, like Jared Goff doesn't run
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Speaker 1: around like crazy. He's a terrible Let me correct myself.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say he's a terrible athlete, but that's
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Speaker 1: not fair. Matt Ryan is a terrible athlete. But yeah, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan can't can't do anything athletically. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't run on a thirty yarder against US,
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Speaker 1: and he just had like a sixteen yard of this
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Speaker 1: pass game that of Saturday. Didn't use the time out
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Speaker 1: on What are you doing, Jeff? Call the time out
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Speaker 1: either way? Yeah, well I was trying to see if
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Speaker 1: he got the first down. Well, when a quarterback gives
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Speaker 1: himself up and he's too yards short of the first down,
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Speaker 1: that's where the spot of the ball is gonna be.
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Speaker 1: Use your time out, regroup, getting the huddle. We digress,
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Speaker 1: Jared digressing. That's just Jared Goff is not quite the
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Speaker 1: running threat. Let's say no, they still stand back here
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Speaker 1: and throw it. They still run some read option principal stuff.
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Speaker 1: But again it's Jared Goff is not a great athlete.
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Speaker 1: He's a good athlete, and he's he's got some mobility,
47:38
Speaker 1: but it's not like he's a guy that you're scared
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Speaker 1: if he runs. You know, if he runs, the Detroit
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Speaker 1: line coaching staff is probably going get down, get down,
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Speaker 1: get down, because he's not fast. He's one of those
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that when he breaks the pocket, you sit there
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Speaker 1: and you go, oh my god, he's gonna have a
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Speaker 1: fifteen yard game, and then a split second later you go, well,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna get tackled for a yard game. That's that's
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Speaker 1: the kind of quarterback he is. I mean, that's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's got to make things happen with his arm, because
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Speaker 1: he can't make anything happen with his legs. Alright, a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes away from the Doug Peterson Show, Jaguars
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Speaker 1: head coach will join us here coming up on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio Network. What do you want to hear from
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Speaker 1: Doug tonight, locks the girl? I mean, just talk to
48:17
Speaker 1: him about the growth of the quarterback. I mean, I
48:19
Speaker 1: think that's a big thing, you know, the growth of
48:21
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And talk to him and how do you
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Speaker 1: approach at this point of the season where you are,
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Speaker 1: you know, do you do you say so what now? What?
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Speaker 1: Or do you talk about what may lie ahead? I
48:34
Speaker 1: mean because as a head coach, I mean, that's that's
48:37
Speaker 1: kind of part of of the direction that you set
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Speaker 1: on a on a day to day basis with your
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Speaker 1: football team. And so it'll be good to ask him
48:45
Speaker 1: those questions because you walk down the hallway and you
48:48
Speaker 1: see a picture of the Lamar Hunt Trophy and the
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Speaker 1: a f C South Division kind of graphic thing and
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Speaker 1: the Lombardi Trophy, Like, okay, there there, that's why you're here.
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Speaker 1: Well it's December and there are standings for a reason.
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Speaker 1: Well you have you have different approaches. You know, you
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Speaker 1: have some coaches to say, look, we're living in a moment.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be where our feet are. We're gonna stay
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Speaker 1: glued to the process. We're not worried about next week.
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Speaker 1: We're worried about this week, and we're not gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about big picture because everything will take care of yourself
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Speaker 1: if we take care of business this week. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you have all that different kind of coach speak, but
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Speaker 1: uh but you know, I mean from our standpoint, we
49:23
Speaker 1: talk about what could possibly light ahead, and the reality
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Speaker 1: is that if you win this game, there's a lot
49:28
Speaker 1: of things that stay alive for this team. All Right.
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Speaker 1: That'll do it for Jaguars Happy Hour coming up in
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Speaker 1: mere moments the Doug Peterson Show, the Jaguars head coach
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Speaker 1: joining us ahead of this week thirteen matchup the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and the Detroit Lions. Coming up. Thank you for listening
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