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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, December fifteen. This is Jeff Blars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: and now the original alf on the shelf, Jane Peace
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Speaker 1: Chad Rick, welcome in. It is Jaguars Happy Hour, and
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Speaker 1: it is Thursday, week fifteen, and we've got a busy
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Speaker 1: two hours ahead on two different programs. Starting on Happy Hour,
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Speaker 1: it's analyst Jeff Logoman coming up. We'll get his thoughts,
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Speaker 1: final thoughts on last week's win in Nashville and the
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Speaker 1: first thoughts looking ahead to the Dallas Cowboys this week.
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Speaker 1: And yes, those are both meaningful December games. That was
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Speaker 1: one of the goals for the organization. They are in
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Speaker 1: that department right now and certainly meaningful for both teams
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Speaker 1: chasing division rivals down the stretch of the season. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from the head coach coming up at five o'clock
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Speaker 1: to Doug Peterson Show. Doug will step in and we'll
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Speaker 1: get his thoughts on the Cowboys Jaguars matchup, and Chris
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Speaker 1: man Hurts, Jaguars tight end, will join us. I had
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Speaker 1: around five fifteen or five or so. We'll get his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys in the season so far.
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Speaker 1: For the Jaguars, let's start with the head coach today
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Speaker 1: though they're actually yesterday. The quarterback playing well and the
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Speaker 1: communication between the two growing as the season continues. But
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Speaker 1: I do feel like he is really, I guess, understanding
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Speaker 1: kind of what we're trying to get done as an offense.
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Speaker 1: And so if you think the same that that definitely helps.
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Speaker 1: And I really call a play and um, it may
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Speaker 1: not be the best play at the time, but but
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Speaker 1: you ask your quarterback to kind of bail you out,
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Speaker 1: and he's been able to do that and and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's just the complimentary aspect of it. Now
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Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence, Jacks quarterback yesterday, of course, the a
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Speaker 1: f C Offensive Player of the Week after his performance
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Speaker 1: in Nashville a week ago, three touchdown passes, one running,
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Speaker 1: and a career high in the yardage. But it was
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Speaker 1: the first and goal interception in London that shook something
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Speaker 1: loose in the signal color. I think at that point,
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Speaker 1: I remember, I never forgot I felt in that locker
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Speaker 1: room after the game. You know, obviously it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: good day for me, and I really just felt like,
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Speaker 1: really it felt like that a couple of times, but
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Speaker 1: none more than after that game. Really felt like I
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Speaker 1: let the team down. You know, should have won that game. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think we had lost four and that was our
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Speaker 1: fifth one in a row. So I was just remember
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Speaker 1: I never forgot how I felt in that locker rooms.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to feel like this anymore. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna one start taking care of the ball.
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Speaker 1: But too, I just want to be the player that
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Speaker 1: I know I can be. And I think that kind
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Speaker 1: of flip the switching me. And obviously and honestly too,
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Speaker 1: I think I have a little bit more of a
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Speaker 1: chip on my shoulder now just because you know, last
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Speaker 1: year and a half, I don't I don't really forget
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Speaker 1: what what's been said and um, what people have written
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Speaker 1: and now you know, you see people change their mind
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Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks. And but I but I,
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Speaker 1: but I remember everything, you know, and I don't use
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Speaker 1: that necessarily my only fuel, but definitely use that. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's something this team's done. You know, we
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Speaker 1: kind of remember how what people were saying we lost
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Speaker 1: five in our row, and then we've won some big
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Speaker 1: games now and um, people kind of change their mind quick.
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Speaker 1: So we just have that same mentality. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: we just we want to prove, you know, how good
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Speaker 1: we can be every week. And I think that's been
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Speaker 1: a cool thing about this team. That's the quarterback keeping
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Speaker 1: receipts from about a month and a half ago, of course.
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Speaker 1: And out of the defense, outside linebacker Josh Alan picked
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Speaker 1: up a fumble last week, one of four takeaways for
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Speaker 1: the defense in Nashville. They certainly could use a few
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Speaker 1: this week against the Cowboys. That's what we part ourselves
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Speaker 1: or this defense man is this. They get the ball,
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Speaker 1: but it's gonna take all eleven. And that was that.
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Speaker 1: That was you know, the core, the core message to
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Speaker 1: the defenseman. We all have to put all the other men,
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Speaker 1: especially this game, and this is another opportunity that we
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Speaker 1: can have a game like this. Uh they you know,
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are really good team front end and back end,
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Speaker 1: so we all have to be locked in. Communication is
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Speaker 1: going to be key. We all got good at that ball.
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Speaker 1: We gotta stop the run and then you gotta rest
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Speaker 1: of passion. So we're excited about this MATCHO. Again, this
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Speaker 1: is another handle business and then you get to where
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Speaker 1: you need to get closer to where you need to be.
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Speaker 1: So we know we're gonna have a big challenge and
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Speaker 1: we're excited for a few highlights from press conferences in
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Speaker 1: locker room this week and all the rest available on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars Social media from the locker
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Speaker 1: room availability East. Louis Khan spoke this week, caught up
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Speaker 1: with a few other guys in the locker room, and
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Speaker 1: you can catch those each and every week. Jeff Flagman
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Speaker 1: joining us now here on set hit the Jaguars Radio
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Speaker 1: Network studios getting ready for week fifteen, the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: coming into Jacksonville for the first time since two thousand six.
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Speaker 1: The last home game for the Jags against the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: was at Wembley and London. That one didn't go so well, So, um, hey,
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Speaker 1: here they come. That The Cowboys are ten and three,
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Speaker 1: They're in second place in the NFC East. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: are what five and eight and second place in the
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Speaker 1: a f C South. Both j seeing the division leaders
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Speaker 1: down the stretch meaningful December football. Indeed, yeah, their chase
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Speaker 1: is a little bit better off than the Jaguars because
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Speaker 1: they can clinch a playoff spot with a victory against
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Here. I think this is gonna be one
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Speaker 1: of the most electric environments that we've seen here in
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Speaker 1: a long time, maybe going all the way back to
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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots game, and we thought the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: team was gonna be just as good in eighteen as
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Speaker 1: they were in seen. Didn't quite turn out that way,
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Speaker 1: but it was a great environment against the Patriots that day.
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Speaker 1: And this place is going to be packed the last
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Speaker 1: I think seats that are available are standing room over
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Speaker 1: right now, so and you better get them quick if
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Speaker 1: you want one, because I can tell you there's not
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Speaker 1: many left. So I'm looking forward to this. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be here early, planning on being here late, and I
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Speaker 1: hope it's a fantastic football game that comes down to
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Speaker 1: the end, tight and the Jaguars find a way to
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Speaker 1: get the victory. Well, I mean, now, Boys aren't unbeatable, now, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they certainly are not. They're good. They're very good. This
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Speaker 1: is probably the second most well rounded team that the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars will face this year, and the Eagles are number one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Eagles are just tremendous. Kan City is
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Speaker 1: good too, but man, the Eagles are just built to
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Speaker 1: the hilt and just they've added to what they had
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Speaker 1: since the Jaguars faced them. And this football team here
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Speaker 1: in Dallas is not perfect, but they're well rounded. They've
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Speaker 1: got a good all offense, they've got a good defense.
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Speaker 1: But if they can find a way to sneak a
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Speaker 1: few takeaways like they did in Tennessee, hold on, we'll
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Speaker 1: do a Dallas deep dive coming up in just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes and get to both sides of the ball
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Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. But the comments from the quarterback
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Speaker 1: there you just heard about that turning point him London,
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Speaker 1: the first and goal interception into the didn't even get
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Speaker 1: in the end zone at the goal line, it was intercepted.
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Speaker 1: He collected a receipt from me on that one. JP. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, but well, he weren't the only one, I
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Speaker 1: don't think. But hey, there were a lot of people
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Speaker 1: there actually calls after some of those games to set
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Speaker 1: him down from fans post game and all that, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's probably what he's referring to, and and analysts.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Nashally we're kind of on him. Um, I
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Speaker 1: didn't say that, No, no, no, I didn't know JP.
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Speaker 1: You did, But I certainly did not say that. By
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Speaker 1: the way, I was defending him in the post games
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Speaker 1: that well, we'll roll the tape either way that the
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Speaker 1: next month and I'm gonna tell tvor you can do
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Speaker 1: whatever you want. I don't care anymore. Um So quarterback
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Speaker 1: play though, he's turned it around and here he is.
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Speaker 1: Um And then last week throws for a career high.
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Speaker 1: He was and I think you said it during the game,
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Speaker 1: he's owning the field. I just remember, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: my dad kind of check in after every game and
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Speaker 1: and sometimes he sees the game. Sometimes he's not able
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Speaker 1: to see it. And then he said a great win,
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Speaker 1: and I he didn't get a chance to see it.
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Speaker 1: So I just texted him and I said, the quarterback
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Speaker 1: was amazing. He was in total command, total control. He
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Speaker 1: was athletic, he was accurate, he was uh uh incredibly good.
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Speaker 1: And what was most impressive to me was how he
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Speaker 1: was in control of the offense as far as getting
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Speaker 1: people lined up. There was a couple instances in that
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Speaker 1: game where all of a sudden, somebody started going the
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Speaker 1: wrong way and he recognized it immediately and immediately starts
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Speaker 1: to correct it, and it corrects it to the point
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Speaker 1: where a lot of quarterbacks see it a little bit late,
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Speaker 1: and then by the time they get everything squared away,
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Speaker 1: the clock, the play clock is ticking down, and then
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Speaker 1: they're kind of at risk of a delay of game.
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Speaker 1: But he was just on it so quickly that it
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Speaker 1: never became a factor A couple of times that had happened.
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Speaker 1: And then how he reacted under pressure to where his
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Speaker 1: eyes never dropped, which is something that's I think truly
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Speaker 1: a special gift. The accuracy, the command, the some of
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Speaker 1: the balls that were incomplete were his best rows. The
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Speaker 1: one deep pass today, I mean he's he's running to
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Speaker 1: his left and launches his ball for what was it
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Speaker 1: like forty five yards, launches his ball and then when
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Speaker 1: you freeze frame it the for those that are watching
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Speaker 1: on social media, Day's got his right arm pinned down
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Speaker 1: a little bit from the defensive back. The ball hits
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Speaker 1: them literally right perfectly in the left hand where I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can't. I could not have walked up there with
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Speaker 1: the ball and placed it any better. And this guy
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Speaker 1: did it running to his left and launching a fifty
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Speaker 1: yard ball. I mean, are you kidding me? It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: It was another and where he's uh, you know, in
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Speaker 1: the pocket has to shift left and right and there's
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Speaker 1: guys in his face and then he throws the back
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Speaker 1: shoulder down the left side. Unbelievable, great and athletic um
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Speaker 1: And you know what, you also have to give credit
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Speaker 1: to the coaching staff. There were multiple plays that were
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Speaker 1: designed really well. I go to the touchdown past Evan Ingram.
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Speaker 1: We did that play with Jim Bob Cooter, the passing
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Speaker 1: game coordinator this week, which will be on on different
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Speaker 1: broadcast channels, TV shows, social media, Jaguars dot Com, and
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Speaker 1: we call I call that play the picket fence play
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Speaker 1: because you have Evan Ingram on the left side and
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Speaker 1: then you have three wide receivers on the right with
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Speaker 1: Marvin z and Christian and they're crossing the field and
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Speaker 1: all they're doing is essentially trying to create a a
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Speaker 1: traffic situation so that the guy who has man coverage
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Speaker 1: on Evan Ingram, which is Kevin bayerd to safety pro
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Speaker 1: bowler by the way, is trying to keep up the
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Speaker 1: Devan and Evan runs a shallow cross or by the
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Speaker 1: time he pops out on the other side of this
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Speaker 1: picket fence, it's nothing but green. And that's just great
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Speaker 1: play design because the coaches design to play that they
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Speaker 1: know what the coverage are probably gonna get. They get
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Speaker 1: exactly what they want. Evan Ingram walks into the touch
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Speaker 1: and for the touchdown uncontested, and then UH the long
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Speaker 1: play to Christian Kirk before UH halftime two minute drill.
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Speaker 1: Big chunk play, great route design, great play design because
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Speaker 1: you're attacking a level on the left side and Zay
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Speaker 1: runs the corner off and then Christian kind of fools
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Speaker 1: the safety and then bends it back into that area
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Speaker 1: that Zay cleared out and essentially created a three level zone,
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Speaker 1: which it was supposed to know it's two levels on
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Speaker 1: the defense. But because you ran off corner off, now
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Speaker 1: you actually open up another zone that they can't cover.
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Speaker 1: And because Christian fools the safety and they make the
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Speaker 1: the outside shallow out guy bite up on a flare
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Speaker 1: pass from Travis E. T n, you know you got
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Speaker 1: a wide open Christian cart for a chunk play. And
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Speaker 1: then there was another play JP not to be long winded,
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Speaker 1: it was a little tight end screenplay and Juan Taylor
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Speaker 1: picks off Kevin Bayer and Evan initially starts to block
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Speaker 1: the outside edge rusher and then rides him and then
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Speaker 1: Kevin Byrd thinks that he's staying in the block, so
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Speaker 1: Bayard starts to come like a blitzer, what we call
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Speaker 1: a hug up blitz, and when he starts to come,
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Speaker 1: Juwan picks him off and then Ingram lets the outside
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Speaker 1: edge guy go just turn. Trevor Delizar delivers them the
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Speaker 1: ball and it's like a twenty something yard game on
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Speaker 1: what was a pass from me to you. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just so fun to watch an offense
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Speaker 1: that has so many plays that are designed exactly for
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Speaker 1: guys and they work. I mean, just we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: that around here very often, and it's and it's fun
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Speaker 1: to watching when you have a quarterback executing at an
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Speaker 1: extremely high level. Within that it's you get what you
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Speaker 1: got in Tennessee, and that was something that was special.
13:02
Speaker 1: We've got plenty to discuss, obviously about the Jags last week,
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Speaker 1: and then moving ahead of the Dallas Cowboys, we'll get
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Speaker 1: to the defensive performance last week, and we'll see if
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Speaker 1: the takeaways can carry over, and then we'll get deep
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Speaker 1: into the Dallas Cowboys ten and three record. The well,
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Speaker 1: the America's team is coming to town, and that means
13:21
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are coming back home to host the Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: How about that? This will soon be America's team logs
13:28
Speaker 1: the Jaguars all. The one thing I will tell you,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of Cowboys fans here. There's
13:34
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Jaguar fans here too, and
13:36
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an incredible environment. And I think the
13:40
Speaker 1: one thing that you gotta if you're playing and you've
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Speaker 1: got a young team, you want to make sure that
13:45
Speaker 1: your team is not in awe of the star. It's
13:49
Speaker 1: another team. What it is, it's another team. But I'm
13:52
Speaker 1: but I'm just here to tell you now, you've got
13:54
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13:56
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Speaker 1: Hour Thursday Week fifteen j P. Shadrick with Jeff Lockman.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from the head coach Doug Peterson coming up
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Speaker 1: at the top of the hour five o'clock the Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network, and Chris man
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Speaker 1: Hurts Jaguars tight End, will join us in studio as well.
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Speaker 1: In the second hour the se things. So Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, I give it up some yardage right
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Speaker 1: first half, Here goes Derrick Henry. He's over a hundred.
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Speaker 1: He had ninety eight yards or something, and he's six
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Speaker 1: in the first quarter. Oh, it's gonna be one of
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Speaker 1: those days today. And then just before halftime they're in
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Speaker 1: JAG's territory. It could be a boy an eight point game.
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Speaker 1: Maybe at halftime if they score a touchdown and and
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Speaker 1: you know, Jags get the ball back. But then shot quarterman.
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Speaker 1: I'd be curious if if Derrick Henry would even admit it. Um,
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Speaker 1: But it's gotta be one of the hardest hits Derek's
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Speaker 1: ever taken in the yeah. I mean, typically Derek doesn't
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Speaker 1: get hit that hard just because he makes guys miss
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Speaker 1: and he makes subtle moves. But and then that turned
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Speaker 1: the whole thing because the Jags get the bumble, they
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Speaker 1: drive the two minutes, take the lead, and never look back.
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason you can get a hit like
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Speaker 1: that is when Derrick Henry is on the Jaguar sideline,
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Speaker 1: he's trying to fight extra yards and he's spinning back
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Speaker 1: to the inside, and when a running back takes his
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Speaker 1: eyes off of everything and cuts back against the grain,
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Speaker 1: that's when he can get walloped. And Check delivered a
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Speaker 1: great hit and the ball literally just falls right into
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Speaker 1: the hands of Josh Allen. I mean, you couldn't have
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Speaker 1: had the ball fall any better than that. And that
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Speaker 1: was a nice play and it was obviously the third
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Speaker 1: takeaway the first half, and it gave you the lead.
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Speaker 1: And then with that it put Tennessee in a situation
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Speaker 1: that they're not very good at, which is playing from behind.
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Speaker 1: You knew going into the ball game that you wanted
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, at least we were talking about this, wanting
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars to get out to an early lead because
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Speaker 1: the Titans aren't accustomed to having to throw the ball,
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Speaker 1: and they have Ryan Tannios who has had great success
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Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, but this year is different. You have
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Speaker 1: two tackles in Tennessee that are not very good. They
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Speaker 1: have a guard that weighs two hundred and seventy four pounds,
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Speaker 1: which is as much as you JP. True and okay,
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Speaker 1: and you would expect that some of the defensive lineman
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Speaker 1: would get after him, and Roy Robertson Harris got after him,
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Speaker 1: and so did arden Key. So so that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: you want to get a lead. Put them in a
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Speaker 1: situation of where they don't do what they do best,
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Speaker 1: and that's pass block worked out perfectly. You don't think
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Speaker 1: your website trying to say I'm I'm not a guard. No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're JP. If I was building a football team with
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Speaker 1: our broadcast department, I would have you a guard. That
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Speaker 1: would be alignment. Is that what we were saying? Now?
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Speaker 1: That's incorrect. Would have you gone, I've actually done well lately.
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Speaker 1: I'm down man. I don't think, well, you don't quite
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Speaker 1: have the feet to play tackle, that's true, you know,
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Speaker 1: so I'm thinking guard. You know you're a brall maller
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Speaker 1: brawler type, you know, you know, and you got the
17:52
Speaker 1: look of a guard. You know, you know, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean not saying anything bad, but you know you
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Speaker 1: just yeah, you're saying a lot bad right now. You're
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Speaker 1: digging a hole. You're digging. Just go ahead, keep digging.
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Speaker 1: I'll remember. That's fine. Whatever it's all wrong, that's Jeff Logman.
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Speaker 1: I'm JP Shadrick and Jaguars happy hour. Now, let's move
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Speaker 1: along to the Dallas Cowboys and the Jaguars defensive matchup
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Speaker 1: this week against the Cowboys offense that can run the football,
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Speaker 1: but two different style running backs. Pollard's kind of come
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Speaker 1: on lately, obviously this year he stepped up, uh and
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Speaker 1: they run the ball seventh best rushing offense in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott has been there obviously the stand by a big,
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Speaker 1: powerful guy that can run you over and do all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. They've got a big play guy
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Speaker 1: and Ceedee Lamb on the outside and um, hey they're
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Speaker 1: they're doing it a few different ways with Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: play action. Um. It's not the most explosive Cowboys team
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Speaker 1: of all time, obviously, but they can still do some damage. No,
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Speaker 1: those two backs with the numbers that we have up
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Speaker 1: on on our screen there, that's that's really the powerhouse
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Speaker 1: part of their offense. And Zeke Elliott has been a
19:04
Speaker 1: good football player for for quite a few years and
19:07
Speaker 1: he's more of a power back now. And when I
19:10
Speaker 1: say power back, you watched the film and guys bounce
19:14
Speaker 1: off of him often. And Tony Pollard is more of
19:17
Speaker 1: the dynamic big play does some things that are really special,
19:22
Speaker 1: and Zeke Ellett used to have some of that, but
19:25
Speaker 1: it's kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit,
19:27
Speaker 1: but still incredibly dependable. And those two guys, I think
19:31
Speaker 1: are a really good combination of running backs. And right
19:35
Speaker 1: now they're kind of taking the pressure off, or at
19:38
Speaker 1: least they're trying to allow them to take the pressure
19:41
Speaker 1: off of Dak Prescott, who had a thumb injury and
19:44
Speaker 1: missed weeks two through six earlier in the season. A
19:48
Speaker 1: lot of people may forget about that or have forgotten
19:51
Speaker 1: about that, but he had a thumb issue, and the
19:55
Speaker 1: thumb issue obviously doesn't allow him to be I think
19:59
Speaker 1: that Prescott that we've seen in the past, I mean,
20:02
Speaker 1: look at the numbers. It's kind of hard to argue
20:04
Speaker 1: I mean he's yeah, it's touchdown to turnover. Interception ratio
20:10
Speaker 1: is definitely not what it's been in the past. Usually
20:12
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is really good at protecting the football, but
20:16
Speaker 1: lately he has had some issues. And you hope that
20:20
Speaker 1: you can end up kind of getting after it a
20:23
Speaker 1: little bit. But the reality is is that here's a
20:26
Speaker 1: number that will I don't want to say surprise you.
20:28
Speaker 1: But even though those numbers are there, the interceptions since
20:32
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott returned the lineup that was Week seven, right,
20:35
Speaker 1: so two through six he was out. The Cowboys lead
20:38
Speaker 1: the NFL, scoring thirty five point seven points per game,
20:43
Speaker 1: So even though he hasn't been his best, he's got interceptions.
20:49
Speaker 1: Those two running backs are really helping. And they have
20:52
Speaker 1: another issue though this week. They've got some offensive line
20:56
Speaker 1: question marks. They lost their really good right tackle and
20:59
Speaker 1: now they're gonna shuffle some guys around. Could Tyren Smith
21:02
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup at left tackle to allow
21:05
Speaker 1: their rookie Tyler Smith to move into left guard. Will
21:10
Speaker 1: Jason Peters start at right tackle? A lot of questions
21:14
Speaker 1: and we may not know the answers until until Sunday.
21:17
Speaker 1: Until they roll the ball out on kickoff time and
21:20
Speaker 1: see what happens when they run out. But that's but
21:23
Speaker 1: that's the area that you've I think you really got
21:26
Speaker 1: to take advantage of trenches. The trenches. I mean that
21:29
Speaker 1: that that trench battle because there Look, I know that
21:35
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith has been to eight Pro Bowls. Okay, I
21:39
Speaker 1: understand that Jason Peters has been to nine Pro Bowls. Okay,
21:44
Speaker 1: Zack Martin has been to seven Pro Bowls. That a
21:48
Speaker 1: lot of Pro Bowls with just three guys. Okay, I
21:51
Speaker 1: get it. But when you got a guy coming off
21:54
Speaker 1: of I R playing for the first time this season,
21:57
Speaker 1: when you have uh, eight time Pro Bowl tackle that's
22:02
Speaker 1: playing right tackle for the first time he did last
22:05
Speaker 1: week a couple series, but then really for the first
22:08
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22:10
Speaker 1: have a first round pick tackle that now moves back
22:13
Speaker 1: into guard, how good can they be? And so I
22:17
Speaker 1: think you have to you really have to win that
22:20
Speaker 1: battle to be able to beat the Cowboys this week. Well,
22:25
Speaker 1: we'll come back in a moment, We'll get to the
22:26
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22:29
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22:34
Speaker 1: are plenty at UH and arguably arguably the best defender
22:41
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22:45
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Flagerman. We'll get to the injury report
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23:53
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24:05
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24:07
Speaker 1: thoughts on the season so far and the Cowboys defense.
24:10
Speaker 1: So about this Cowboys defense logs. They are second in
24:15
Speaker 1: the league in sacks, they take the ball away a
24:17
Speaker 1: good bit. They have star power really on every level,
24:22
Speaker 1: and this group is getting it done this year. That's
24:24
Speaker 1: the challenge really good. And you know, I look at
24:27
Speaker 1: the top five defense in yards and you talked about
24:29
Speaker 1: the takeaway second in the league, and takeaways second in
24:32
Speaker 1: the league, and sacks second in the league against the
24:35
Speaker 1: past third in the league, and points allowed. I mean,
24:38
Speaker 1: this is an upper echelon defense that's led by the
24:41
Speaker 1: former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, Dan Quinn, who
24:45
Speaker 1: is one of those Gus Bradley Carol defensive guys. And
24:51
Speaker 1: and at some point dan Quinn's gonna get another opportunity
24:53
Speaker 1: to be a head coach in this league because he
24:55
Speaker 1: had he had a good run there in Atlanta. But
24:58
Speaker 1: he's got these guys playing well, and one of the
25:00
Speaker 1: reasons that they play well is they've got some some
25:03
Speaker 1: top end players that can play for this defense. And
25:06
Speaker 1: it starts, I think with Michael Parsons, who is a
25:10
Speaker 1: coach's dream and interesting in that you know, his rookie
25:14
Speaker 1: year after when he came out of Penn State, they
25:15
Speaker 1: played him at linebacker, they played him at edge, and
25:19
Speaker 1: this year they're almost playing him exclusively as an edge
25:22
Speaker 1: player because he can have more of an impact on
25:25
Speaker 1: a play by play basis by being an edge player
25:28
Speaker 1: as opposed to being a Mic or a Will or
25:32
Speaker 1: a Sam lineback five yards off the ball. And he's
25:36
Speaker 1: got such a knack for balance that when you watch
25:40
Speaker 1: the film on him, the guy is always always in
25:43
Speaker 1: control with power, which that's rare. Some guys have to
25:47
Speaker 1: get in the right position to have power. And he
25:50
Speaker 1: has just natural power that's a and great bend and
25:55
Speaker 1: he's got great hands. There's nothing he doesn't do. He's
25:58
Speaker 1: got a great motor. I mean he is. He is
26:01
Speaker 1: everything you want to have in a defensive player. I
26:05
Speaker 1: mean him and Aaron Donald, I think are the real
26:08
Speaker 1: freaks of this league. Chris Jones. I mean those three guys,
26:12
Speaker 1: I mean, can you think of anybody else that would
26:14
Speaker 1: be up in that category of that can absolutely dominate
26:18
Speaker 1: a game take it over like that. I mean, those
26:20
Speaker 1: are there's a hand they don't I mean t J. Watt,
26:24
Speaker 1: but not like t J doesn't do it play after play. Look,
26:26
Speaker 1: great player, okay, great player, but this guy can affect
26:31
Speaker 1: the game every play, every play. And the crazy part
26:35
Speaker 1: is that, Look, they got Marcus Lawrence on the other side,
26:40
Speaker 1: who is really good. And then, oh, by the way,
26:43
Speaker 1: when they want to roll in the next wave of guys,
26:46
Speaker 1: they've got this rookie Sam Williams, who is one of
26:49
Speaker 1: their best pass rushers and he has the highest pass
26:54
Speaker 1: rush grade of any rookie in the league. Okay, of
26:58
Speaker 1: all the rookie path rushers. Okay, their rookie who was
27:02
Speaker 1: there second round pick out of Mississippi, he's got the
27:05
Speaker 1: highest success pass rush rate that there is in the league.
27:08
Speaker 1: And then Dante Fowler is a guy, just a rotational guy.
27:12
Speaker 1: And uh so, I mean they've got players that can
27:15
Speaker 1: play that. The one weakness that they have, if there
27:17
Speaker 1: really is one, is that in the interior the defensive
27:21
Speaker 1: tackles are not great, you know, and then they're kind
27:23
Speaker 1: of just I don't want to say they're guys, but there,
27:26
Speaker 1: you know, compared to the rest of this defense, they're
27:28
Speaker 1: they're not as good. And in a corner, you've got
27:31
Speaker 1: Travon Trayvon how do you pronounce Okay, I want to
27:36
Speaker 1: make sure I pronounce that right, Treyvon Diggs, who last
27:39
Speaker 1: year had eleven interceptions. I mean that's that's a crazy number,
27:43
Speaker 1: like three short of the league record for a single
27:45
Speaker 1: season eleven In one year Night Train Lane had fourteen
27:48
Speaker 1: I think eleven interception six career. This guy is tremendous.
27:53
Speaker 1: And they they wrote, I've read somewhere that he hasn't
27:58
Speaker 1: had an interception in six games. Who else gets that
28:03
Speaker 1: written about the Yeah, he's off his game. He hasn't
28:06
Speaker 1: had one an interception in six games. I mean that's
28:09
Speaker 1: like headlines, right, I mean, that's how good this guy is.
28:13
Speaker 1: And uh so, if you're Trevor Lawrence, who has been
28:16
Speaker 1: doing a great job in the last five games, hasn't
28:18
Speaker 1: had an interception, you gotta gotta watch out for him
28:21
Speaker 1: and safety in They've got I think a couple of
28:24
Speaker 1: really good players. Malik Hooker who you was a former
28:27
Speaker 1: number one pick for the Indianapolis Colts, and he actually
28:30
Speaker 1: tore his knee against the Jaguars a couple of years ago.
28:33
Speaker 1: He is a good player. He's got lots of speed,
28:36
Speaker 1: great middle kind of center fielder. And then Donovan Wilson
28:39
Speaker 1: is a more around the line of scrimmage type of safety.
28:42
Speaker 1: He's a good player as well. Uh, They've got a
28:44
Speaker 1: good rookie corner and Deron Bland, who was a fifth
28:48
Speaker 1: round pick out of Fresno State. Great pick up for
28:50
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He's actually got uhcause I think three interceptions
28:55
Speaker 1: on the season. One of the highest rated rookie corners
28:57
Speaker 1: in the league. So they've got a They've got very
29:00
Speaker 1: good defense to go with a very good offense, probably
29:03
Speaker 1: one of the most, like I said earlier, one of
29:04
Speaker 1: the most balanced teams that there is in a National
29:07
Speaker 1: football leagainst special teams are solid as well. So by
29:12
Speaker 1: the way, they have three defensive scores on the year,
29:16
Speaker 1: three three. They have three fumble returns for touchdowns on
29:21
Speaker 1: the season. And here's a number for you, Okay, the
29:25
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys this year have scored eighty points off of
29:30
Speaker 1: twenty three takeaways. Eight points off twenty three takeaways. Let's
29:34
Speaker 1: compare that to the Jaguars, which the Jaguars have been
29:37
Speaker 1: outstanding as well, right, and the takeaway category early in
29:40
Speaker 1: the season they were, but have done a pretty good job. Right.
29:44
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have scored seventy seven points off of twenty takeaways.
29:49
Speaker 1: So the Jaguars doing a good job in that category
29:51
Speaker 1: as well. But the Dallas Cowboys are scoring on defense themselves. Yeah,
29:55
Speaker 1: that that changes the game for sure. Alright, So looks
30:00
Speaker 1: attacking this Cowboys defense. Now, you don't want to get
30:04
Speaker 1: in third and long right against this group with the
30:06
Speaker 1: past rush they have and what they've proven to be
30:08
Speaker 1: able to do so far. So is this the week
30:11
Speaker 1: the running game gets a little more involved and maybe
30:13
Speaker 1: they go to it um and stick with it. I
30:16
Speaker 1: hope so. And the reason I say I hope so
30:20
Speaker 1: because you you really need to have balance this week.
30:22
Speaker 1: If you get in a situation where you're in second
30:26
Speaker 1: and six plus seven plus third down and five plus,
30:31
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be in trouble. And when I when
30:36
Speaker 1: I say that, look you got away with it the
30:38
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks not having a real strong rushing
30:41
Speaker 1: attack eat n Over the last three weeks hasn't been great, right, Uh,
30:45
Speaker 1: if you pull the numbers up, I don't know exactly
30:47
Speaker 1: what he's had over the last three weeks, but they've
30:49
Speaker 1: been kind of I don't want to say pedestrian, but
30:52
Speaker 1: that's probably the case. I mean, part of it he
30:54
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a lot of touches. Part of it is
30:56
Speaker 1: that the running game hasn't been very successful. And go
31:00
Speaker 1: on to Tennessee. He felt good about the team's ability
31:03
Speaker 1: to throw the football and to not have to have
31:06
Speaker 1: a running game and be nice to have a running
31:08
Speaker 1: game this week. I think you almost have to have
31:11
Speaker 1: a running game to go along with Trevor Lawrence to
31:14
Speaker 1: have success as in offense, just because Dallas is that
31:17
Speaker 1: good across the board. As a defense, you gotta find
31:20
Speaker 1: a way to take some pressure off of Trevor against
31:25
Speaker 1: a really good defense. That I'm not saying that Trevor
31:27
Speaker 1: can't can't do it. I'm just saying to give yourself
31:30
Speaker 1: the best chance, you gotta get that run game going.
31:32
Speaker 1: So at Kansas City, of course, they were behind in
31:35
Speaker 1: that game. Eleven carries forty five yards for e t
31:38
Speaker 1: n in that one Baltimore, he was dinged up so
31:41
Speaker 1: to carries three yards, didn't finish the game at Detroit
31:45
Speaker 1: thirteen carries fifty four yards, and then at Tennessee seventeen
31:50
Speaker 1: for thirty two yards. You gotta you gotta be better.
31:53
Speaker 1: You gotta be better than those numbers. And I'm not
31:56
Speaker 1: saying that he's got to have a hundred yards. He's
31:58
Speaker 1: just gotta have. He's got to have in afect on
32:00
Speaker 1: the game. And if if he doesn't have an effect
32:03
Speaker 1: on the game, it's gonna make it more difficult. You know.
32:05
Speaker 1: The other thing I will say, now, we've seen kind
32:07
Speaker 1: of week the week when the Jaguars have had passing success.
32:10
Speaker 1: You've seen Za Jones have a big game, Okay, and
32:14
Speaker 1: then it's having Ingram's term right when you go back
32:17
Speaker 1: and look at the last couple of wins, Okay, Baltimore
32:20
Speaker 1: was Zay and then against this past week against the
32:25
Speaker 1: titan yet Evan Ingram. You go back against Detroit, it
32:29
Speaker 1: was Christian that had the big game. So like every week,
32:32
Speaker 1: kind of everybody's taking turns. In a game like like
32:36
Speaker 1: this against the Cowboys where they're good across the board
32:38
Speaker 1: and they have a well rounded football team. I'm not
32:40
Speaker 1: saying everybody has to have a big game, but you've
32:43
Speaker 1: got to have more than just one guy having a
32:46
Speaker 1: big game. You gotta have two or three guys that
32:49
Speaker 1: are playing well. Let's take a look now at the
32:53
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32:55
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33:01
Speaker 1: The PR Department has put out the official injury report
33:05
Speaker 1: after Thursday's practice. Andre Cisco has been full both days
33:09
Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday. Positive. That's good news for the safety.
33:12
Speaker 1: A lot of changes back there in in the back
33:14
Speaker 1: of the secondary too well. And you know, fortunately the
33:16
Speaker 1: Jaguars have had Andrew Wingered, who you know he has
33:20
Speaker 1: He has played outstanding football and so give him credit
33:24
Speaker 1: because this defense has not missed a beat with him
33:28
Speaker 1: in in the starting lineup with Cisco out, and look,
33:32
Speaker 1: you'd like to have everybody available because then that allows
33:35
Speaker 1: them to play some free safety sets and then also
33:38
Speaker 1: allows Winger to have a really solid impact on special team.
33:40
Speaker 1: But credit the winger. The wingered on the report this
33:43
Speaker 1: week with the shoulder issue limited both days Wednesday and Thursday,
33:46
Speaker 1: and you could tell that he he made that one
33:49
Speaker 1: hit early in the ball game and was real slow
33:52
Speaker 1: to get up and comes back in the ball game,
33:55
Speaker 1: and then he made some tackles later in the game.
33:57
Speaker 1: I was was win seeing a little bit, you know.
33:59
Speaker 1: But though those you know, those type of players what
34:03
Speaker 1: willing to suck it up, and Cam suck it up.
34:05
Speaker 1: That's what That's what the job description requires. Staying in
34:08
Speaker 1: the second him, stay in the secondary. Cornerback Darius Williams
34:12
Speaker 1: and abdomen issue did not practice yesterday, limited today. That's
34:16
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. So that's good. Chad
34:19
Speaker 1: Muma with an ankle is you limited both days? We'll
34:22
Speaker 1: see what happens tomorrow with him. Uh, let's see offensive
34:26
Speaker 1: lineman Brandon Sheriff and abdomen issue did not practice yesterday,
34:30
Speaker 1: limited today. Trevor Lawrence, the tourists, you did not practice Wednesday,
34:34
Speaker 1: limited on Thursday. And then Trayvon Walker with the ankle
34:38
Speaker 1: issue has not practiced Wednesday or Thursday. That doesn't look good, right, No,
34:43
Speaker 1: So there you have it. That's the Jaguars side of it.
34:45
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have a couple of defensive ends on the list,
34:49
Speaker 1: limited both days for Dorrence Armstrong and DeMarcus Lawrence and
34:54
Speaker 1: Dante Feller non injury issue, did not practice today. Safety
34:59
Speaker 1: gr On curR with a shoulder and back is you
35:01
Speaker 1: limited both days. Jake Ferguson tight end with a concussion,
35:05
Speaker 1: is not practiced. Yeah, he's probably not gonna make it. There.
35:07
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a few guys that are not gonna
35:09
Speaker 1: make it from on both teams. You know, you have
35:12
Speaker 1: to kind of see how it works out. But for
35:13
Speaker 1: the most part, this Jaguars football team remains incredibly healthy.
35:18
Speaker 1: And you look at the number of games that have
35:20
Speaker 1: been missed by the starters, and when I'm talking about
35:23
Speaker 1: starters going all the way back to opening Day, there's
35:25
Speaker 1: not been very many at all. You know, knock on wood.
35:28
Speaker 1: As long as they can stay healthy, you got a chance.
35:30
Speaker 1: And Trayvon Walker being out of the line up this week,
35:33
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not gonna help. But the reality is
35:36
Speaker 1: that the guys that have been rotating in there, Dwan,
35:39
Speaker 1: Smoot arden Key, they have been doing a very good job.
35:42
Speaker 1: They're probably playing just as effective. But the one thing
35:45
Speaker 1: you'll miss with Trayvon Walker is that physical presence. I
35:49
Speaker 1: just think of the tackle that he made on ocon
35:51
Speaker 1: Quo in the flat and it was just like he
35:55
Speaker 1: was rag Doll and the guy and uh makes the
35:59
Speaker 1: sack calls phone Bowl. And how physically is when he
36:01
Speaker 1: hits people. I mean, I think that's the one thing
36:04
Speaker 1: that's really special about Trayvon Walker is the physicality that
36:08
Speaker 1: he plays the game with I think is second to none.
36:11
Speaker 1: You mentioned the number of players that Jaguars still have
36:13
Speaker 1: the fewest number of players used in games this season
36:16
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Only fifty eight players have touched the
36:19
Speaker 1: field for the Jaguars, and as a comparison, the Titans
36:23
Speaker 1: have used the most in the league with eighty this year.
36:26
Speaker 1: So there you go, that's good news. Yeah, that's a
36:28
Speaker 1: that's a much that's a much uh kind of a
36:33
Speaker 1: wide gap there between the Jaguars and the Titans. And
36:36
Speaker 1: you know, you just wonder how long, you know, when
36:38
Speaker 1: you when you have that many injuries and that kind
36:40
Speaker 1: of of players that are unavailable for a team that's
36:44
Speaker 1: leading the division, can they hang on? Here come the Jags.
36:48
Speaker 1: I just hope that, you know, you get this game
36:50
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you keep looking towards
36:54
Speaker 1: that game, that last game of the year, and you go, man,
36:59
Speaker 1: how cool would it be? Going into that game at
37:03
Speaker 1: this place against your rival with the playoffs and the
37:08
Speaker 1: division title on the line. And I know that's looking
37:11
Speaker 1: way ahead and jumping ahead and that there's a lot,
37:14
Speaker 1: but you know what, JP, we're allowed to do what
37:17
Speaker 1: we're allowed to do. That coaches and players are not
37:20
Speaker 1: better get it in now because Doug Peterson show next.
37:22
Speaker 1: They won't be able to do that, Doug and Chris
37:24
Speaker 1: Man hurts, but yeah, they won't be able to do that.
37:27
Speaker 1: But they shouldn't do that. No, But I think it's
37:29
Speaker 1: the same token. You have to have that carrot dangling
37:33
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37:37
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37:42
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37:44
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Speaker 1: home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. It's week fifteen JP Shatdrick with Jeff Log
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Speaker 1: when the Jaguars host the Dallas Cowboys Sunday at t
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Speaker 1: i A bank Field And if you're watching on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: it's a live look just outside of the bank where
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Speaker 1: the Miller Electric Center is under construction. What's moving right along? Man,
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Speaker 1: Let's look at nice thet sun is setting. It was
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Speaker 1: a rainy day a lot of the day today. Jeff,
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Speaker 1: you carried an umbrella to practice somehow. I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was it was not even barely sprinkling.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to melt. Yeah, I mean you gotta
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Speaker 1: you are you are on TV later, I guess, but
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Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't even raining. No, it was sprinkling. No,
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Speaker 1: it was not like literally was sprinkling. That means it
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Speaker 1: was not raining, raining a little bit, you know, Jay, sprinkling.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't like to melt, so I figured
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Speaker 1: it I would carry an umbrella out there because I can.
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Speaker 1: I thought you were a tough defensive lineman. Football practice
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're not tough. What's wrong with that? Kind
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Speaker 1: of that kind of does a little bit. That's okay,
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Speaker 1: I did, I did get you got heckled, but oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's what happens when you carry an umbrella.
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Speaker 1: It was it was very quick. I mean literally as
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Speaker 1: soon as I got out there or the umbrella, somebody started.
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Speaker 1: Somebody's started yelling, like who's yelling, George, I won't call it.
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Speaker 1: Oh you just did, Georgie and Quimment guys like no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not allowed. What do you mean it's not allowed?
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Speaker 1: It's rain. Unbelievable. Ye. Country superstar Kenny Chesney is coming
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville April fourteen. Tickets on sale now and don't
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Speaker 1: miss the I go back to her with special guest
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Speaker 1: Kelsey Ballerini. That's a Daily's Place for tickets and more.
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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Visit Daily's Place dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: a good one. That should be a good one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: really good one. That's April four April. That's what it says.
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Speaker 1: Who do I call to get tickets? You can go
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Speaker 1: to Daily's Place dot com. I'm gonna do that because
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Speaker 1: that's a that's a good concert. I've never seen Chesney before.
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Speaker 1: I haven't either. I heard he puts on a great show.
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Speaker 1: And Kelsey Ballerini I think I've heard is excellent. Haven't
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Speaker 1: seen her, had anything of her music playing on my Spotify,
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Speaker 1: but I heard she's good. It'll be one of the
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Speaker 1: most intimate venues that Chesney plays. I can tell you that.
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Speaker 1: It's about a stadium guy. Looking forward to that. Check
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Speaker 1: that out, alright, Cowboys Jaguar is coming up week fifteen,
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Speaker 1: meaningful December game. Jaguars, um you know, are starting to
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Speaker 1: play better football over the last month month and a
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Speaker 1: half and finished some games and the quarterbacks playing well.
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Speaker 1: The defense is back to taking the ball away. At
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Speaker 1: least last week they were that's good news with the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys all right there. As you said earlier, you you
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Speaker 1: feel that they're they're probably the second most well rounded
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Speaker 1: team that Jaguars have faced this year. They're ten and
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Speaker 1: three for a reason because they've got playmakers all over
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Speaker 1: both sides. Yeah, and they're they're strong point. For years
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Speaker 1: was always their offensive line they had, but three years
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Speaker 1: they drafted first round lineman a Row or something. Remember that, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean they had Pro Bowl guy from Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: guy along along the offensive line, and that was really
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Speaker 1: the strength of our football team with a young quarter
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Speaker 1: act and and Dak Prescott and then Ezekiel Elliott was
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Speaker 1: you know, the best back in the league I think
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Speaker 1: early on. But that's changed a little bit there, and
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Speaker 1: they they spent some draft capital on the offensive line,
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Speaker 1: but they just haven't hit on some of those picks
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Speaker 1: like they did in the past. And so there it's
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Speaker 1: a good offensive line. But right now, with the injuries
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Speaker 1: that they've had, I think there's a lot of questions
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Speaker 1: that go along with that offensive line. But there is
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Speaker 1: no questioning the two backs as we talked about, those
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Speaker 1: guys are good. You've got I think a good tight
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Speaker 1: end and Schultz not a great tight end, and Ceedee
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Speaker 1: Lamb is he's he's an elite player. The catching run
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Speaker 1: ability I just called you, dude, by the way, sorry,
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Speaker 1: the catching catching, the catching run ability of Lamb, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if there's many in the game. Like obviously
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Speaker 1: the guys in Miami are like him, right, but if
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Speaker 1: they catch it, they're not gonna get those guys the way,
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Speaker 1: it was not far off at least when he came
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Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma, he was. That was his game with
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Speaker 1: the Sooners and it's kind of carried over now to Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Now he only needs here's a couple of numbers on him,
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Speaker 1: thirty nine yards to get to a thousand, and that
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Speaker 1: will be his second season of reaching the thousand yards.
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Speaker 1: His other season that wasn't was like nine seventy years.
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Speaker 1: But when you look at PFF, they ranked the receivers,
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Speaker 1: and I always look at the rankings overall. I don't
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Speaker 1: look at just receiving because they have a receiving category
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Speaker 1: and overall category. And Ceedee Lamb is the ninth rated
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Speaker 1: wide receiver overall in the National Football League and that's
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Speaker 1: that's an elite player. And when you look at how
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Speaker 1: much he's targeted. He's been targeted twenty eight percent of
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Speaker 1: his routes our twenty six point eight percent of his routes.
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Speaker 1: That's an incredibly high percentage, and the numbers bear it out.
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Speaker 1: If I'm dark Prescott, I'm looking his way too, just
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Speaker 1: because he has been highly productive and he can line
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Speaker 1: up inside, outside, it doesn't matter. He's effective anywhere he
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Speaker 1: lines up. All right, So Jaguars defense secondary, are they?
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Speaker 1: They've kind of gone away from the man the last
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Speaker 1: little while. Anyway, that's gonna be the m O down
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Speaker 1: the stretch, right, I think? I mean, I I mean,
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Speaker 1: look at every game plan can change week to week.
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Speaker 1: So could they come out this week and play more man? Could?
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Speaker 1: But I just don't. I don't see that happening. Last week,
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Speaker 1: you got Trey Hearne and active after being inactive the
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Speaker 1: previous two games. That to me showed that they were
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Speaker 1: making a commitment to playing zone against Tennessee. Maybe some
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Speaker 1: of that, maybe a lot of that was to do
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Speaker 1: if they wanted to keep eyes on Derrick Henry and
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Speaker 1: will that be the case this week? Probably so, because
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Speaker 1: you've got two great backs. I mean, keep the eyes
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Speaker 1: on the backs, Keep the eyes on the quarterback, and
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Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest, this team is not playing very well.
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Speaker 1: In man. You've got some issues in the back end.
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Speaker 1: You've had some issues that linebacker with discipline, and I
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Speaker 1: think the solution for this team right now is to
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Speaker 1: play more zone like they did last week. And they
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Speaker 1: also did a little bit a few things differently this
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Speaker 1: past week. I don't know if you noticed, but and
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Speaker 1: when they went to their subsituation, which subs when they
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Speaker 1: go to their nickel, Okay, now they're pass rushing. You
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Speaker 1: got four guys on the line. Did you notice that
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Speaker 1: all of their hands were down? About that? No? I
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Speaker 1: did that? Yeah, and that that that was a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a change because in the past you had
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Speaker 1: the defensive tackles with their hands in the ground, and
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Speaker 1: then you had Josh and Trayvon were standing up on
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Speaker 1: the outside, or Smoot and r and Key were standing
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Speaker 1: up on the out. So everybody's down. This past game,
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Speaker 1: everybody had their hand in the ground when when they
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Speaker 1: went to that four man kind of look. Now it
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Speaker 1: wasn't every time, but way more than what they had
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Speaker 1: previously been doing. Let me ask you this then, as
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Speaker 1: a former defensive lineman, why would it be any different
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Speaker 1: from standing to having a hand on the ground. What's
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Speaker 1: the difference in the get off, the first step and
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Speaker 1: everything that goes. And that's a great question, and I'll
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Speaker 1: I'll answer that question with a question to you. How
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Speaker 1: many Olympic sprinters have you ever seen starting a two
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Speaker 1: point stance? Um? Not in the last you know, eighty years?
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Speaker 1: Probably not, never know, okay? And the reason why is
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Speaker 1: that you're faster out of the gate when you're in
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Speaker 1: a three point stance or four point. Those guys are
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Speaker 1: myth hands down on the ground with their fingers out.
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Speaker 1: But as a pass rusher, you always threatened the upfield
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Speaker 1: shoulder with the first couple steps of speed. You generate
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Speaker 1: the best speed from a three point stands and so
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Speaker 1: I think that that's important. I don't understand why they
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Speaker 1: weren't rushing from a three point stance all year long.
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Speaker 1: I don't quite understand that. And some people would say,
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Speaker 1: and football people would say, well, you know what, if
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Speaker 1: you rush from a two point allows you to drop
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Speaker 1: into coverage and to see everything you know before you drop. Well, look,
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Speaker 1: guys have been dropping in zone dogs or not zone dogs,
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Speaker 1: in in a in a pressure zone situation, zone blitz
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Speaker 1: from three point stance for years. I mean, teams have
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Speaker 1: dropped defensive tackles that have been in a three point
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Speaker 1: stance and dropped them into a zone coverage. They've dropped
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Speaker 1: defensive ends from three point stance in his zone coverage.
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Speaker 1: So it's not like it can't be done from a
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Speaker 1: three point stance. And and if you really and look,
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen has a better get off and is a
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Speaker 1: more effective pass rusher. His win rate is higher from
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Speaker 1: a three point stance compared to a two point stance.
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker is less hesitant when he rushes from a
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Speaker 1: three point stance compared to a two point stance. You know,
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Speaker 1: so good to see these guys in three points and
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Speaker 1: keep doing it and cut them loose, all right? Coming
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Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes, we'll hear from
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Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson on you Guessed It? The Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. That's just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes away. So logs, well, do you want to
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Speaker 1: hear from Doug Peterson two and a half minutes from
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Speaker 1: right now? I want to hear about Trevor. I want
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Speaker 1: to hear about his quarterback I mean, that's um. It's
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Speaker 1: been the story of the last couple of weeks with
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Speaker 1: this organization. We really I thought had a moment here
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Speaker 1: at home against Baltimore, and he took it to a
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Speaker 1: whole another level this past week at Tennessee getting to win.
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Speaker 1: And you know where's he at? What's next? You know what,
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Speaker 1: what does he see? He he's got the trained I
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Speaker 1: he's been around great quarterback play before, He's been a
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Speaker 1: teammate of great quarterbacks. You know, I want to I
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Speaker 1: want to hear about Trevor. We'll hear about Trevor, and
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Speaker 1: then uh, we'll hear from Chris Mannard still join us
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Speaker 1: in studios. What's great, get his thoughts on what's happened
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Speaker 1: so far this season, what's to come down the stretch,
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Speaker 1: and then get into his head on the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: defense and some of their personnel what they have to offer.
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Speaker 1: To get a perspective from a tight end, he's been
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Speaker 1: studying it, and I think the beauty of having a
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Speaker 1: tight end because when you when you certain guys have
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Speaker 1: like for example, when you talk to a defensive back,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna know the wide receivers and he's studying those
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Speaker 1: guys tight ends study everybody. They study linebackers, they study
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Speaker 1: the defensive ends and the edge players because they got
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Speaker 1: to block all of those guys. They even study the safeties,
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Speaker 1: and so I think it's gonna have a pretty unique perspective.
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Speaker 1: And having Man Hurts in here to talk a little
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Speaker 1: bit about that Dallas Cowboys defense, and it's a really
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Speaker 1: good one. So there's plenty to talk about, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: That's coming up and just about a minute or so
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Radio Network. And as we said earlier,
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Speaker 1: uh near sellout. They are standing room tickets being sold
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Speaker 1: as we speak, so I would anticipate that they would
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Speaker 1: get there at some point between now and Sunday, but
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Speaker 1: it will be a packed house and will be a
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Speaker 1: fantastic crowd, and what a scene it should be for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars at five and eight and the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: at ten and three this Sunday at the Bank. When
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Speaker 1: we come back in just a moment, it's Jaguars Radio
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Speaker 1: Network coverage that Doug Peterson Show will hear from the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach just a matter of moments. Thank you
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