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Fred Taylor is excited to see the starters against the Browns in Preseason Week 1 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. The Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 1: It's preseason week one and we're back at the bank. Fred.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? JP? Man back at the bank. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that means is football season. Let's get it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get it. Indeed, and it means some of these starting
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  Speaker 1: football players will see some time on the field tonight
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  Speaker 1: against the Browns. That's good news. Doug Peterson said that
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday in this press conference that includes the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence will get his first game action in the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to see out of Trevor in
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  Speaker 1: game one of the preseason, actually game two for the
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  Speaker 1: Jags his first game. You know what I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see JP is uh a touchdown on the first
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  Speaker 1: NAPA they game. But realistically, UH, that doesn't always happened
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  Speaker 1: that way. It's a hard league. It certainly isn't easy. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I just like to see him get out their command
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  Speaker 1: the huddle, you know, show that he still has control
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  Speaker 1: of command over the huddle. I want to see them
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  Speaker 1: go fast, get guys out in their positions, and UH
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  Speaker 1: just snapketball play football is you know, their second preseason game,
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  Speaker 1: but for Trevor, it will be his first action this year,
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  Speaker 1: first action in coach Peterson's new system. So I like
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  Speaker 1: to see how well they communicate, you know, at this
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  Speaker 1: point of the season, from the sideline, you know, head coach,
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  Speaker 1: the play caller to the quarterback, et cetera. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see him come out healthy in his limited role.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, that's about it. So we understand his first
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  Speaker 1: or second preseason game, but his first action, so we
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  Speaker 1: don't we're not going to ask for much of him,
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  Speaker 1: but we do want to see that the mechanics of
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  Speaker 1: it all, you know, or where they should be at
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  Speaker 1: this point in the season. Fred Taylor with us. Same
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  Speaker 1: goes for Travis c tn Jr. Who, of course was
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  Speaker 1: injured last preseason, that's the entire regular season with the
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  Speaker 1: list frank injury. But he's back. He's been back in
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  Speaker 1: training camp. He didn't play last week, and you can
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  Speaker 1: just tell by the way he's going about it and
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  Speaker 1: talking to him that he's fired up to just play
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  Speaker 1: in some kind of football game. I think, finally, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking forward to that as well. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't had an opportunity to see him as a pro.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had much of an opportunity to see him
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  Speaker 1: in practice. You know, I've gonna wait, but I've seen
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  Speaker 1: some clips. You know, he's running around, He's you know,
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  Speaker 1: energetic and optimistic. That's what I love. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see that. He how he and James Robinson, you know
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  Speaker 1: how they could you know, share the load once both
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  Speaker 1: of those guys are completely healthy out there. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing that I mentioned with Trevor, just like
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  Speaker 1: to see him get out there and get some snaps,
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  Speaker 1: show his versatility and his no dynamic ability out of
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  Speaker 1: the backfield, but also come away injury free. You know,
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  Speaker 1: with all of these guys, that's my focus, man. I know,
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  Speaker 1: it's football. They have to get out there, try to
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  Speaker 1: not some rust off and try to create some timing,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. But more importantly for me, especially with preseason,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see these guys come out injury free
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  Speaker 1: and that's key. But everybody held their breath when Tyson
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  Speaker 1: Campbell went down in camping on Thursday night. But talking
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  Speaker 1: to him this week, hey, they said they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: too serious. He wanted the two series. That's a mindset
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  Speaker 1: thing right for a lot of these guys. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you know Tyson well from his younger days, just
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  Speaker 1: getting into his head this week. He knows he has
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  Speaker 1: a starting role on this team, but what he has
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go out and play. That's just how
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  Speaker 1: he's wired. You gotta go out there and play and
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  Speaker 1: fight through some stuff. Of course, we're we're definitely all
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  Speaker 1: happy that Tyson didn't get injured. Um, but that's the
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  Speaker 1: mentality you want from your players. We we had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to sit down with t J. Watt, Mr, you
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  Speaker 1: know all everything for our podcast over there a few
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  Speaker 1: days back. You know, he said, hey, I'm not practicing
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but you know I want to practice and
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this. I want this,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And that's what you want to hear from
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  Speaker 1: your starters. And you're the guys that you're depending on.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to hear guys, you know, get excited
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  Speaker 1: when coach saying, hey you gotta day off. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you want those guys that are want to go out there,
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  Speaker 1: that want to play, they want to compete, they want
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  Speaker 1: to work more importantly, so, UM, you know Tyson, he's
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  Speaker 1: just wired that way. He's always been that way. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's going into the year two. So for me, year
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  Speaker 1: two was miles away from year one. You know, just
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  Speaker 1: in terms of awareness, you know, just that confidence and
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you be wrong. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to let everyone else know that you belong
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  Speaker 1: and you know, having that, I want to play. I
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  Speaker 1: need to play mindset, it's what it's all about. With
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  Speaker 1: the CB and the roofs changes, JP, guys don't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time, you know, out there and practicing
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  Speaker 1: on the field. It's not like the days of old.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they barely get time and pads. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a few padded practices throughout camp. I think I
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  Speaker 1: hear something like there's an eleven hour rule when you
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  Speaker 1: can be on the field and all that other crate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to be a math major now
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  Speaker 1: in order to be an athlete out there to keep
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  Speaker 1: up with that stuff. But the bottom line is these
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  Speaker 1: guys want to play, and I don't blame there was
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  Speaker 1: no eleven hour rule in thousand. I'm guessing right, there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't much in nine except uh, coaches can keep you
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  Speaker 1: out there for as long as they want and one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite persons on the planet and uh, one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite coaches in Tom Coughland. Hey, the eleven
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  Speaker 1: our rule, I don't know if that will work with him.
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  Speaker 1: He'd probably be a pill and that every chance he'd get, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he would lose. Obviously, he would lose those appeals because
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  Speaker 1: they did a pretty decent job with the CBA. But still, um,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't exist in my day, JP. Uh, And thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was able to actually just get out
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  Speaker 1: there and go. I practiced my butt off and I
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  Speaker 1: played my butt off. Fred Taylor, proud of the Jaguards
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  Speaker 1: running back, is with us to that point a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You said, there's only a few padded practices in training camp.
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  Speaker 1: I rule. Well, in a practice Sunday after two days
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  Speaker 1: off following the Hall of Fame game, Doug Peterson cranked
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  Speaker 1: up the intensity a little bit. They had to live periods,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently, like the first play, Andre Cisco decleted Travis
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  Speaker 1: Etn on the sideline and okay, I guess we're really
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  Speaker 1: live now, So he's gonna do that a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's another one coming next week, Fred, but
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  Speaker 1: it might tell you a little more about your team,
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  Speaker 1: how they respond to a situation like that, not trying
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  Speaker 1: to hurt the guy across room. But you gotta see
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  Speaker 1: something out of these guys when those physical practices come.
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  Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. I think it's a great
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  Speaker 1: call by coach Peterson. You know, we need to see
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  Speaker 1: where you at. Whether it's my mind simply by mindset,
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  Speaker 1: you know, physicality. We don't have a lot of these practices.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we need to see that the lineman are
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  Speaker 1: gonna get in there, They're gonna have proper footwork, hat placement,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they got to get in there and
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  Speaker 1: they got to tangle up with these guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, there was a turn I think
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  Speaker 1: can still probably use now because coaches still have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of coaches still have old school mindset, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and they want to see contact. They want to
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  Speaker 1: see some physicality. They don't want to see um wrestling
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  Speaker 1: and you know that that that that fake stuff. They
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  Speaker 1: want to see football, right, real old school football. I
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  Speaker 1: think the players wanted to you know, those guys want
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  Speaker 1: to hit, you know, they want to see where they are.
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  Speaker 1: They want to see that their angles are proper, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their hat placement. You know, when they're tackling,
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  Speaker 1: it's proper, their pad level is proper. Uh. And when
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  Speaker 1: it's goal time, it's it's goal time. And uh the
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  Speaker 1: other day it was goal time, and uh, you know Cisco,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he woke Travis up, and I'm sure Travis
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be, you know, ready for the next time
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  Speaker 1: they go at it. Fred final thought here going into
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  Speaker 1: officially preseason week one, the second game for the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: We'll take away number sixteen from this equation. But beyond him,
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  Speaker 1: who are you most excited to see on the field
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  Speaker 1: against the Browns? JP, um throw you stole my thunder
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  Speaker 1: right there, you know, because I'm rooting for six team.
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  Speaker 1: Man definitely excited to see whenever he gets ready. But uh, man, um,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see e t N. I hadn't had
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to see him out there. I'm biased obviously
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  Speaker 1: as a running back. I want to see him bounce around.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some explosiveness. I want to see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they can cog the player too to
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  Speaker 1: get creative in the past game and give him the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity out there to show his hands and that versatility,
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  Speaker 1: because coming in he was compared to Alvin Camara, So
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some of that because I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: watching Camara's game, so I would I would say he
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  Speaker 1: is the one person that I'm looking forward to see. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking forward to seeing you at the bank, and
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  Speaker 1: i'll see you on the video boards coming up. And
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit, thanks a lot. That's right, that's
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  Speaker 1: doing man.