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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 202 | Victory Monday, Best Moments From Jaguars Week 15 Win · Jags A.M.

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Speaker 1: How's the field, Jags fans? Another victory Monday for the
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Speaker 1: Jags this season as they get a blowout win over
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Speaker 1: the Jets yesterday. Welcome to Jags Am. I'm Pennani Stevens
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Speaker 1: Brand Sexton John Oser with us today. Whole lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about. After a very big forty eight to twenty
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Speaker 1: win over the Jets yesterday, Let's get into our big Things,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by g EHA Government Employees Health Association.
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Speaker 1: Big Thing number one has to be Trevor Lawrence. Of course,
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Speaker 1: has a career day yesterday. Throws for five touchdowns, runs
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Speaker 1: for another one, had of little fifty yards on the
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Speaker 1: ground as well, just completely putting it all together. Liam
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Speaker 1: Cohen talked about what he's seen from Trevor the past
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: You could feel it though, like throughout the weeks, the
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Speaker 2: last few weeks, especially that he's continuously gaining more and
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Speaker 2: more confidence, continuity in chemistry with the guys that he's
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Speaker 2: playing with, executing the plan. But also then again, I
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Speaker 2: mean he had a ditto play I mean from last week,
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Speaker 2: the rollout to his left across his body, zero blitz,
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Speaker 2: same exact kind of play that we actually were running
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Speaker 2: as last week to Tim Patrick. So again, that's him
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Speaker 2: being special, that's him being a football player and making
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Speaker 2: a play. So yeah, I would say that he was
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Speaker 2: one of his better performances that I've seen.
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Speaker 1: Brian, We've talked the past a couple of weeks. We're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: is this Trevor's best game? Trevor's best game, completely erasing
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Speaker 1: all doubt. It was yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're listening without a doubt, and we can
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Speaker 3: assault you with numbers. There are so many statistics about
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Speaker 3: where he's at. Six touchdowns though a franchise record on
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Speaker 3: one single game. It's unbelievable. But it felt john like
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Speaker 3: he was playing with the Jets. You know a guy
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Speaker 3: that you used to cover, Bill Polly in the Hall
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Speaker 3: of Fame personnel guy used to talk about phases of
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Speaker 3: a quarterback, and I don't remember all of them, but
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Speaker 3: one is where you know, he's just figuring out his
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Speaker 3: offense and then he's figuring out what the defense does,
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Speaker 3: and you know, then he's taking what the defense gives him,
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Speaker 3: and then he's dictating to a defense. And it felt
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Speaker 3: yesterday like he was in that fourth phase where he
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Speaker 3: was just directing the entire game from the pocket, poised, disciplined, determined.
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Speaker 3: Choose your adjective. Here's the number. I will give you.
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Speaker 3: Twenty nine touchdowns. Only three quarterbacks in the NFL this
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Speaker 3: season have accounted for more. He's playing great football.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Liam come in said the best. He's playing at
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Speaker 4: a high level.
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Speaker 5: And Liam has not this year, you know, jumped over
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Speaker 5: himself to praise Trevor falsely when he was playing bad.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't like he was trying to build up his
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Speaker 5: confidence early, you know. So for him to come out
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Speaker 5: and say he's playing at a high level, to praise
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Speaker 5: him the way he did in terms of decision making,
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Speaker 5: it's significant.
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Speaker 4: For three weeks we've seen.
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Speaker 5: Him get better and better and better, trust his receivers
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Speaker 5: more and more. This was already a good, reliable, steady offense,
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Speaker 5: and in three weeks now it's what nine touchdown passes,
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Speaker 5: no interceptions. They're going downfield during all this too. This
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Speaker 5: is not just five yard completions. It's turning into an
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Speaker 5: explosive offense, and he's turning into a big time quarterback.
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Speaker 1: One of his most reliable receivers may be a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a surprise. Our big thing. Number two Traves
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Speaker 1: y ten junior playing in a contract here. We've seen
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Speaker 1: what he can do on the ground, but he had
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Speaker 1: three receiving touchdowns yesterday, which was impressive of the first
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Speaker 1: we've seen from a Jaguars running back, and travas Etn
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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about what Liam Cohen's offense does
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Speaker 1: to allow him to be so successful.
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Speaker 6: I've been just working in the shadow, which is a practice,
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Speaker 6: just catching balls and just doing it in practice over
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Speaker 6: and over again. But as close you got the conference
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Speaker 6: to go out there and call it, and I feel
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Speaker 6: like that's a difference. He calls the players, he calls
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Speaker 6: the plays. He people wants to score a touchdown, and
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Speaker 6: he gets the bad to play, make his hands and
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Speaker 6: have he just have confidence in us. I mean he
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Speaker 6: see day in and day out and him was calling
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Speaker 6: the player. Give him a chance to go out there
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Speaker 6: and make those plays. Treelve dollar enough throwing in the man.
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Speaker 6: I'm just grateful that I want to receive him into
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Speaker 6: that now.
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Speaker 1: John will be clear, Travis was very clear at the presser.
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Speaker 1: He's always had good hands. They just now they're throwing
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Speaker 1: to him so he can show off a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, hands were a little bit of a topic when
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Speaker 5: he came into the league, meaning people really didn't know
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Speaker 5: how good he was as a receiver because they didn't
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Speaker 5: have to use as much of the receiver at Clemson.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Look, we can talk all.
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Speaker 5: I it's very obviously if if you watch this team,
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Speaker 5: how important Travis is on the field.
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Speaker 4: Uh, what a.
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Speaker 5: Pleasure he has turned into to watch, to cover, he's
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Speaker 5: f He's fantastic and entertaining on the podium.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what his future is. Running backs are different. Uh,
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Speaker 5: but he's turned into a player to me, Brian who
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Speaker 5: will be remembered by this franchise no matter how long
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Speaker 5: he's with them as y a A as a really
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Speaker 5: a fun Jaguar, a really good productive NFL player. I
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Speaker 5: thoroughly enjoy watching and being around Travis DTN And.
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Speaker 3: Listen, we've talked since the first day of training camp
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Speaker 3: about how important he's been and how good he has been.
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Speaker 3: And I had he and Parker Washington. You know, one
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Speaker 3: A and one B is the MVP of this team.
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Speaker 3: That Trevor just took that away in the last couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks. But travestn the forty five yard screened the
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Speaker 3: one down the jag sideline. He made a move in
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Speaker 3: there that and I don't compare many people to Fred Taylor,
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Speaker 3: but there was a jump cut in about the thirty
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Speaker 3: four yard line where both feet hit the ground in
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Speaker 3: front of Azuria Thomas, the cornerback, and as Robert Hainsey
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Speaker 3: gets Azurie out of the way, he explodes back to
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Speaker 3: the sideline. Azria maybe got a hand on him, maybe
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Speaker 3: touched his hip, you can't quite tell, and he exploded
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Speaker 3: went off. It reminded me of Fred's thirty eight yard
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Speaker 3: touchdown in the sixty two to seven went over the Dolphins,
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Speaker 3: where he made guys miss and then just ran by
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Speaker 3: them all. It was a breath taking play that showed
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Speaker 3: you what he's really capable of. John. I don't know
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Speaker 3: what's happening with him either. They drafted to running backs
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Speaker 3: this year. Generally, with your cap you let running backs go.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you can do that. I think
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Speaker 3: maybe he's making a case that at least the franchise
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Speaker 3: tag has to be considered to keep him around for
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Speaker 3: another year. He is this team's, outside of Trevor, most
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Speaker 3: important offensive player.
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Speaker 5: I think that's a key thing with Travis is I
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Speaker 5: can remember in twenty two, his first year playing, he
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Speaker 5: had some runs that he sort of pounded the ball
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Speaker 5: on the ground afterwards and said, I should have finished that.
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Speaker 5: He's grown so much and becomes such a smarter runner,
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Speaker 5: smarter player.
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Speaker 4: He's now a guy when you get him the ball.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes with backs, you get in the ball and you
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Speaker 5: know if you get into him five times, they're going
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Speaker 5: to get the most out of the play three times.
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Speaker 5: Travis gets the most out of the play at such
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Speaker 5: a high level and creates touchdowns where maybe they weren't
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Speaker 5: going to be there.
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Speaker 4: He's special.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I have no idea what this team looks like
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Speaker 1: this year without him. He played such a crucial role
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Speaker 1: in speci s many games that I've seen so far
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Speaker 1: this year. So for me, very important on offense. Our
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Speaker 1: final big thing today is gonna be ten because they've
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Speaker 1: reached ten wins. This team is ten and four, first
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Speaker 1: time since twenty seventeen that they reached that ten win.
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Speaker 1: Mark and Trevor Lawrence talked a little bit about playing
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Speaker 1: with confidence and why he feels so good in this offense.
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Speaker 7: I think it's it's easier to do the more comfortable
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Speaker 7: and confident you are in in the system and just
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Speaker 7: trusting what you see and I think you're seeing that
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Speaker 7: more and more last few weeks, and just playing fast.
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Speaker 7: And that's always that you talk about the second play,
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Speaker 7: Like the first play doesn't always go great, but that
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Speaker 7: extending the play and the second play you can still win.
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Speaker 7: And we've had a lot of a great examples of
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Speaker 7: that the last few weeks, and guys continuing to work
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Speaker 7: and get.
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Speaker 3: Open and you know, scramble, drill, there's a lot of.
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Speaker 1: That, Brian, we talked a ton about the defense, rightfully,
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Speaker 1: so that Chargers game they were dominant, but the past
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks in the offense they scored touchdown in
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Speaker 1: the first three drives this week with Trevor clicking on
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Speaker 1: all cylinders. But what'sn't mean the significance to getting to
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Speaker 1: ten wins, Well, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, listen, it's only the second time since two thousand
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Speaker 3: and seven they've done it, So it's very significant for
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Speaker 3: Jaguars fans to see their team in that strong position.
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Speaker 3: It's meaningful. However, John, I think they might need to
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Speaker 3: get to thirteen to win the division. I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: the position they're in right now. Because the Jaguars have
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Speaker 3: won five in a row. The Texans are right on
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Speaker 3: their heel. They've won six in a row. And when
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Speaker 3: they look at the two teams, if they have identical
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Speaker 3: records at the end of the year, I think you
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Speaker 3: get to the fifth or sixth tiebreaker and I think
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Speaker 3: Houston wins it. So the pressure is on for this
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Speaker 3: team to win thirteen games, or at least one more
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Speaker 3: than the Houston Texans. And the Texans this week as
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars go to Denver and play the best team
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Speaker 3: in the AFC in one of the most difficult environments
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Speaker 3: in pro football, the Texans get the Raiders at home.
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Speaker 3: So this is there's a lot of pressure and by
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Speaker 3: the way, I love it, and I think Liam Cohen
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Speaker 3: does too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's for clarification.
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Speaker 5: My understanding is if the Texans went out and the
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Speaker 5: Jaguars lose to Denver, then Texans do in the division.
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Speaker 5: But the way to fix that is not to lose.
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Speaker 5: And I think this is what this team is thinking about.
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Speaker 5: As far as ten wins, Kuy, it's a big deal
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Speaker 5: because this team now has a chance to win eleven, twelve,
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Speaker 5: thirteen games, and guess what twelve is more than ten.
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Speaker 5: I didn't know this year if they could get into
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Speaker 5: the couple of wins over double digits, I thought maybe ten.
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Speaker 5: When you get to twelve, when you get to eleven,
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Speaker 5: which this team has a chance to do.
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Speaker 4: You're really really good.
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Speaker 5: And I think more than anything with this team, they've
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Speaker 5: now shown fans this is what it's gonna be. This
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Speaker 5: is gonna be the standard at Liam Cohen. And they've
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Speaker 5: gotten there so much quicker than I thought they would.
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Speaker 5: It's been a really impressive thing to watch, particularly the
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Speaker 5: last six weeks.
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Speaker 3: And when you consider that the ninety nine team is
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Speaker 3: the one with the most regular season wins, they have fourteen.
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Speaker 3: At two thousand and five they had twelve track wards
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Speaker 3: have an opportunity to squeeze themselves up there with this team. Then,
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Speaker 3: of course you defined by the postseason to put their
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Speaker 3: name stamping in jag Warts history in Liam Cohen's first year.
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Speaker 3: Why was that impressive? I don't think anybody could have
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Speaker 3: expected it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Some elite company, for sure. Stay
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Speaker 4: Nah, not at all.
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Speaker 6: I don't think I ever seen Trevor like this, uh,
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Speaker 6: you know, and I feel like we want to we
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Speaker 6: want to National Championship together, and I feel like, uh,
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Speaker 6: he's just out there, he's on fire, man, like you've
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Speaker 6: seen it. He rolled out again and he just kind
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Speaker 6: of stopped and just parks down there somewhere, you know,
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Speaker 6: and uh, he launched it and Parking made a great catch.
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Speaker 6: So man, I'm just greatful that I'm on his team.
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Speaker 4: And the groote that I.
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Speaker 6: Seen through him from him, man, just unbelievable when it
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Speaker 6: forces everybody else step over that game as well.
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Speaker 1: I thepnos Trevor best at this point. I mean, they're
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Speaker 1: playing the other almost a decade, but says he's never
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Speaker 1: seen him play better, including when they were playing for
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Speaker 1: National Championship.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing. We lose patients so quickly in
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Speaker 3: this league with players that we decide guy can play,
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Speaker 3: a guy can't play, and we don't give them the
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Speaker 3: time anymore to develop, and then that's not my set.
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Speaker 3: But Kevin O'Connell, the coach of the Viking, said, you know,
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Speaker 3: we used to teach quarterbacks to play just like we
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Speaker 3: used to teach kids to swim. Now we expect them
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Speaker 3: to jump in the lane next to Michael Phelps and win.
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Speaker 3: I mean that's it's a very high level of performance
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Speaker 3: and some guys just need a little bit more time.
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Speaker 3: If he is where he was always going to get to,
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Speaker 3: it was worth waiting for.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and a son of it too.
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Speaker 5: Credit this franchise this year for working very hard throughout
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Speaker 5: the year to put the situation correct around him. I've
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Speaker 5: emphasized the last few weeks they have rebuilt and reshaped
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Speaker 5: their receiving corps on the flot Parker Washington, all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden.
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Speaker 4: A huge part of it barely played in the open.
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Speaker 5: Jacoby Myers here, now, Tim Patrick here, now, Britain strange
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Speaker 5: more involved. You know, he clearly trusts what's going on
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Speaker 5: around him, and I don't think he can underestimate that.
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Speaker 3: With Trevor and listen, Liam Cohen is going to point
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Speaker 3: to the player, but I think all of us would
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Speaker 3: say that he is being coached harder than perhaps we
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Speaker 3: have ever seen him be coached, and the result of
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Speaker 3: the coach and the quarterback together has created this ten
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Speaker 3: and four run and this opportunity into the playoffs. It's
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Speaker 3: been fun.
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Speaker 4: Letter better rip.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's start with Trevor Letting at ripped to
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Speaker 1: BTJ early. We talked a lot about what BTJ brought
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Speaker 1: to the past game last week. Saw it very early
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Speaker 1: in this game again because he just opens up the
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Speaker 1: field and then just I think what is great about
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Speaker 1: him getting involved now is the confidence is back. You
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Speaker 1: can see it the way he's reacting and this throw
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Speaker 1: to me, I was like, how howful.
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Speaker 4: Did he get this?
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Speaker 1: I was like, there's a couple in this game where
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Speaker 1: you're just like, that's just stupid, Like I don't even
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Speaker 1: know how that worked.
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Speaker 5: He does a great job at ripping situation, and clearly
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Speaker 5: I was a situation they repped red zone.
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Speaker 4: They knew that play was going to be there.
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Speaker 5: But look, the Jets aren't very good, but the throws
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Speaker 5: Trevor was making yesterday their NFL players right, and the
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Speaker 5: defense was fine.
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Speaker 4: On this play, he made a.
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Speaker 5: Big time read, big time throw and it was a
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Speaker 5: confidence throw without question.
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Speaker 3: And VTJ had two others. There was one that was
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Speaker 3: just outside his fingertips and the other ends of just
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Speaker 3: he almost got there. And then there was the one
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Speaker 3: down the field that would have been another thirty nine
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Speaker 3: yard plus that he stumbled that he got caught up
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Speaker 3: with the defensive back. I mean, he was on the
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Speaker 3: verge of a massive day and just missed it by inches.
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Speaker 3: But three receptions of over thirty yards in the last
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Speaker 3: three weeks a really good sign for where this offense
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Speaker 3: is happened.
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Speaker 5: I think about what you're saying with Trevor too. I
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Speaker 5: forget his numbers in terms of completions, but there were
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Speaker 5: three or four balls that he threw really well that
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Speaker 5: just happened to not be caught. And I'd even call
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Speaker 5: him dross, but whatever might be doingj so his accuracy
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Speaker 5: is also dramatically improving.
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Speaker 4: I think that also is because he trusted receivers.
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Speaker 3: What we're going to show it, I'm sure, yes we are.
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Speaker 1: Let's do one brief defensive play because the most of
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Speaker 1: this is offense, but just the getting the ball back
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Speaker 1: as quickly as they did early in the game as well.
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Speaker 4: That's a big poot.
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Speaker 1: This was I mean, Trayvon every week, I feel like
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Speaker 1: the past two three weeks has been doing it and
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Speaker 1: it's just for him to get I think it was
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Speaker 1: a six yard loss, is what it ended up being
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Speaker 1: because of how quickly he got back there. And yes,
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Speaker 1: some of this is on the Jets. You should probably
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Speaker 1: block that guy. But Trayvon's physicality has come back, and
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Speaker 1: just his ability to make the play about him and
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Speaker 1: getting there and making that fully about it.
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Speaker 3: You're talking about a guy with a brace on his
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Speaker 3: left hand and a brace on his left knee exploding
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Speaker 3: to his left to make a play. We've been saying
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Speaker 3: it for a couple of years. The guy's physically freakishally
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Speaker 3: strong and athletic and powerful, and he is doing it
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Speaker 3: playing at less than one hundred percent. And that was
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Speaker 3: a huge play because when they went up fourteen nothing,
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Speaker 3: you could just feel this thing was going to go
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Speaker 3: the way that it did.
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Speaker 5: Mike Tom called him wrecking ball a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 5: and that's what Trayvon is.
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Speaker 4: He He wrecks plays.
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Speaker 5: Force of will and physical ability and smart player as well.
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Speaker 4: He's really really good.
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Speaker 1: Happy to have him on our team. Let's do a
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Speaker 1: little more, Trevor, because why not. How about the scrambled
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Speaker 1: touchdown again, What if you didn't already feel like things
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Speaker 1: were going well, everything fell apart and then this is
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Speaker 1: just very much reminiscent on Monday Night when you're like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: well now he's going to score, of course, and it's
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Speaker 1: going your way.
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Speaker 4: It's going your way. Yeah, but I think there was
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Speaker 4: some luck involved. Sure we would play like that.
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Speaker 5: At the same time, he is playing and seeing things
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Speaker 5: at a very high level and as he mentioned the
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Speaker 5: offensive lines, playing really well.
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Speaker 4: He opened on this play.
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Speaker 5: The production broke down a little bit, but not so
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Speaker 5: much that he couldn't function, and credit to him for
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Speaker 5: having the vision to get it done.
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Speaker 3: Sixth rushing touchdown of the year for him.
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Speaker 4: Amazing, absolutely love it.
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Speaker 1: And then off the top we heard both Traves YTN
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Speaker 1: and Coach Cohen talking about this play. I just called
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Speaker 1: him dumb plays where you're like this, it's just stupid.
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Speaker 1: It shouldn't work, it should be a dumb decision, but
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Speaker 1: it works and you're like how, like how? And he
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Speaker 1: had one last week against Tim Patrick. Tim Patrick caught
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Speaker 1: the ball.
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Speaker 4: But it's absurd, John Well, it's absurd at the same.
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Speaker 1: Time unless you're good, and then it's great.
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Speaker 4: Preparation, you know, luck, whatever it is.
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Speaker 5: He saw the blitz coming and had the ability and
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Speaker 5: again I think some of this is had the trust
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Speaker 5: in Parker to know, if I get it out there,
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Speaker 5: he's got a chance to be there.
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Speaker 4: Now. That play probably will works to you know, twenty
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Speaker 4: percent of times to do it. But it was a
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Speaker 4: low risk play, right.
17:06
Speaker 5: He didn't put himself in a bad situation and basically
17:09
Speaker 5: gave himself a chance to make that play.
17:11
Speaker 4: And when it's going well, that kind of play work well.
17:13
Speaker 3: And let's not discount that he's healthy in December for
17:15
Speaker 3: the first time in a couple of years, like that
17:17
Speaker 3: touchdown run that we just saw where he was able
17:19
Speaker 3: to avoid Will McDonald and then outrun him and explode
17:22
Speaker 3: to the pylon. Last year, the year before, at this
17:26
Speaker 3: point of the season, hidm't healthy enough to throw off
17:29
Speaker 3: balance and put the ball where he put it. He
17:31
Speaker 3: probably puts it up and it gets intercepted. But because
17:34
Speaker 3: he's healthy and because he's powerful right now, that would
17:37
Speaker 3: and that's a tough throw to make, and to put
17:39
Speaker 3: it in a spot where only Parker can get it,
17:41
Speaker 3: and of course Parker would go get it, because that's
17:43
Speaker 3: the player he's become this year. Having a healthy quarterback
17:46
Speaker 3: is really important in December.
17:48
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at some of these Trevor to
17:50
Speaker 1: Traves YTN touchdowns because there are a couple of them,
17:52
Speaker 1: so when we talk about this combination, they've obviously played
17:56
Speaker 1: with each other for a long time and they know
17:59
Speaker 1: each other well. But Travestan's role in the offense has
18:02
Speaker 1: been impressive to me. These aren't just little. I mean, yes,
18:05
Speaker 1: there was a screen touchdown pass, but he's going out
18:07
Speaker 1: and getting it.
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Speaker 3: Bryan Listen, I just marveled. This was the guy who
18:11
Speaker 3: lost the ball on the goal line last year in
18:13
Speaker 3: Miami and struggled all season, and yet now he's making
18:16
Speaker 3: plays like this. Watch this joke cut right there. I mean,
18:19
Speaker 3: he is so confident on the football field. What a
18:22
Speaker 3: reclamation story this season is for him and Trevor's MVP.
18:28
Speaker 3: But man, he's warn't b because he is the guy
18:30
Speaker 3: that Trevor counts on the most.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think Travis would tell you probably not
18:34
Speaker 5: a run he makes as a rookie.
18:36
Speaker 4: And always emphasize this because he's talked about.
18:38
Speaker 5: A summit how much better a runner he is and
18:41
Speaker 5: how he had to change his game when he got
18:44
Speaker 5: in the NFL, because in college he said it a lot,
18:47
Speaker 5: everything was easy.
18:48
Speaker 4: He just outran guys and scored.
18:51
Speaker 5: So he now uses blockers better, he uses vision better,
18:55
Speaker 5: he uses his moves better.
18:57
Speaker 4: I said it over and over again this show.
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Speaker 5: He some guys he cover and you don't realize until
19:04
Speaker 5: late in the time you're covering.
19:05
Speaker 4: I really like watching this guy play.
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Speaker 2: You know.
19:07
Speaker 3: Tim Patrick told me in the locker room last week
19:09
Speaker 3: that when you're blocking for Travis etn you never quit.
19:13
Speaker 3: And you see him in that play down the field
19:15
Speaker 3: with Ezra Cleveland just driving the safety off the ball.
19:19
Speaker 3: He could have said it once, he said it three times.
19:21
Speaker 3: It's a want too thing, and the receivers here want to.
19:24
Speaker 3: He doesn't have the chance to get to the sideline
19:27
Speaker 3: without anybody coming near him if you don't have Ezra
19:30
Speaker 3: Cleveland and Tim Patrick running down the field and moving
19:33
Speaker 3: guys out of the way. It was a whole team effort.
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Speaker 4: That's been a story on a lot of long runs
19:36
Speaker 4: this year.
19:37
Speaker 1: And it's the buying on every play too, And that's
19:39
Speaker 1: late in the game against it in a team where
19:41
Speaker 1: you're winning in a blowout and to still see that
19:43
Speaker 1: buying and want to set up your teammates is really
19:46
Speaker 1: cool to see the time of the season. Stay Louis,
19:48
Speaker 1: we have some hot takes for you coming up after
19:50
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Speaker 8: That's a lot of fun. You you look around, everybody's
20:03
Speaker 8: always flying around smiling. That's one of the things that
20:05
Speaker 8: you really want to see amongst players on the field
20:08
Speaker 8: is having fun like you and your natural habitat with
20:10
Speaker 8: just out there playing ball, having fun like with little kids.
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Speaker 1: We're all having fun right now. Tana wins for this team.
20:16
Speaker 1: Feels good seventy something degrees and summary yesterday, it's a
20:20
Speaker 1: beautiful day to be out there.
20:21
Speaker 3: So let me turn it down a little bit. Oh no,
20:24
Speaker 3: just slightly. It's too easy to point out everything that's
20:27
Speaker 3: good when there's that much good. But there were a
20:28
Speaker 3: couple of plays yesterday where I thought the Jaguars could
20:32
Speaker 3: be better, and that's my hot take. They can be better.
20:34
Speaker 3: They have to be better because you're going to the
20:36
Speaker 3: number one team in the AFC and what I think
20:38
Speaker 3: is the most difficult place to play in December in
20:42
Speaker 3: the NFL, and you can't have the mental mistakes. And
20:45
Speaker 3: Liam Cohen talked about his theme last week was you know,
20:48
Speaker 3: being mature and preparing, well, you got to be mature
20:52
Speaker 3: on the field as well. And Greg Newsom that was
20:54
Speaker 3: a stupid penalty on the sideline over there. He was
20:58
Speaker 3: standing on the boundary at and got into it with
21:01
Speaker 3: the receiver Brian Thomas Junior on the goal line. And
21:04
Speaker 3: then Mason Smith just wouldn't stop when he was out there,
21:07
Speaker 3: and you think, wow, okay, those are three penalties forty
21:09
Speaker 3: five yards. But Greg Newsom's result in a field goal
21:14
Speaker 3: and Mason Smith's resulted in a touchdown for the Jets.
21:17
Speaker 3: And Brian Thomas Junior took the Jags away from third
21:20
Speaker 3: in less than a yard at the five yard line
21:22
Speaker 3: and made a third and seventeen and they ended up
21:23
Speaker 3: settling for a field goal. So it's a net fourteen
21:26
Speaker 3: points that you essentially handed to the New York Jets.
21:30
Speaker 3: You can't have those kinds of mental mistakes. This team
21:33
Speaker 3: has taking a big step forward, but you know, it's
21:36
Speaker 3: kind of like your golf game, John, when you go
21:38
Speaker 3: from shooting one twenty to one hundred. A couple of
21:41
Speaker 3: lessons and you get to that point, Okay, you figure
21:43
Speaker 3: some things out, but if you want to go from
21:45
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety, so from okay to good Man,
21:48
Speaker 3: you got to dial in on the little things and
21:50
Speaker 3: those fifteen yard penalties they're easily avoidable by controlling your
21:54
Speaker 3: emotions have got to be a part of it from
21:56
Speaker 3: this point going forward. And I'm sure that's a conversation
21:58
Speaker 3: point the head coach will with those guys and his
22:01
Speaker 3: team this week.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Denver will be one or lost on situations, and
22:05
Speaker 5: if you give away fifteen yards in those situations, it's
22:09
Speaker 5: gonna result in points like that, and fourteen points on
22:12
Speaker 5: Sunday this Sunday will be the difference.
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Speaker 4: In the game. Absolutely, what's your hot take for it?
22:17
Speaker 5: I went with a good team, good quarterback, with great opportunity,
22:20
Speaker 5: and look, I don't know if the Jaguars will win
22:25
Speaker 5: the AFC or the Super Bowl. I know from watching
22:28
Speaker 5: them in the last couple of weeks they can And
22:30
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd have been saying that five
22:31
Speaker 5: weeks ago, but it's a team that if Trevor is
22:38
Speaker 5: playing this way and if what we're seeing is real,
22:41
Speaker 5: and I have no reason to believe it's not after
22:42
Speaker 5: three weeks. This team can get there if it stays healthy.
22:49
Speaker 4: It's got to win in big situations.
22:50
Speaker 5: Right, It's not gonna be easy, but absolutely they're one
22:54
Speaker 5: of the teams in the AFC.
22:55
Speaker 4: They can win it.
22:56
Speaker 3: Petter McCardell in nineteen ninety six, why not us? That
23:00
Speaker 3: way watching this quarterback? Why not us? And they went
23:03
Speaker 3: on a run got to the AFC Championship game in
23:05
Speaker 3: their second season because they were playing good kai and
23:08
Speaker 3: they believed in one another. And in that locker room
23:11
Speaker 3: yesterday and on those sidelines, you saw a team that
23:14
Speaker 3: is really good with a good quarterback, but they believe
23:16
Speaker 3: in one another. They're together. Liam Cohen has do an
23:19
Speaker 3: amazing job of getting this locker room to a spot
23:23
Speaker 3: where they can go and make a run at this thing.
23:24
Speaker 3: Whether they do or they know, that's determined on the field,
23:27
Speaker 3: but it's hard not to argue that they can do
23:29
Speaker 3: it based on what we see.
23:31
Speaker 1: I know these next couple of weeks are going to
23:32
Speaker 1: be fun, that is absolutely for sure. I'm looking a
23:35
Speaker 1: little forward thinking just a little bit because of the
23:37
Speaker 1: game that I saw yesterday from Travistn for me etn
23:41
Speaker 1: is my top off season priority. I'm not Tony Bisselia,
23:44
Speaker 1: I'm not James Gladstone, but I can see what his
23:47
Speaker 1: role in this team has been this past year is
23:50
Speaker 1: everything they want When they say this is what we
23:52
Speaker 1: wanted Jaguar to be coming in, I don't think anybody
23:56
Speaker 1: expected Travisten. He was floated to be traded out. We've
23:59
Speaker 1: seen a lot of players from the past regimes head
24:01
Speaker 1: out of town, and he bought into this program. He's
24:05
Speaker 1: bought into every single part of Liam Cohen's offense. And
24:08
Speaker 1: early on in the season, when it was all the
24:09
Speaker 1: run game they really couldn't get the pass game going,
24:12
Speaker 1: that was Traves Ytn. That was winning those football games
24:14
Speaker 1: for you. Then yesterday you see another part of his
24:15
Speaker 1: game where he has three receiving touchdowns and he's showing
24:19
Speaker 1: his versatility and what he can do in this offense.
24:21
Speaker 1: And for me, we talk about his growth. John, You're
24:24
Speaker 1: talking about what he looked like before, what he looks
24:26
Speaker 1: like now. You say, oh, we can just draft a
24:28
Speaker 1: running back and he can kind of plug him in
24:30
Speaker 1: that role. He's proving that you can't just do that
24:32
Speaker 1: necessarily with a rookie guy. It takes some years to
24:35
Speaker 1: get to that point. And yes, I know he's a
24:37
Speaker 1: running back, and yes, I know it's kind of weird,
24:39
Speaker 1: But for me, that has to be a priority when
24:41
Speaker 1: you are building a core of a team that we
24:43
Speaker 1: have seen get to a point where maybe we thought
24:45
Speaker 1: it would be a soft rebuild, certainly not. They've already
24:47
Speaker 1: got ten wins. You're at a point where you're trying
24:49
Speaker 1: to compete. That's someone I want to keep on my roster.
24:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have assumed at the start of the
24:53
Speaker 5: season that he wouldn't be back next year. I don't
24:57
Speaker 5: know if he'll be back next year because for me,
25:00
Speaker 5: any of the points you made. Running back negotiations are
25:03
Speaker 5: difficult and they're not as cut and dry as others.
25:06
Speaker 4: But I think what you said is best.
25:10
Speaker 5: It's got to be something that they work hard to
25:12
Speaker 5: figure out. Whether they can get there, I don't know,
25:14
Speaker 5: but I think it's much more of a priority than
25:17
Speaker 5: they believed it would be six months ago.
25:19
Speaker 3: Well, listen, you both said that it's weird, and it is.
25:22
Speaker 3: The running back market is strange because teams draft their
25:24
Speaker 3: own and they don't overpay for that. So if Travis
25:27
Speaker 3: is willing to accept a fair number and not a
25:30
Speaker 3: market busting number. But all it takes is one team
25:34
Speaker 3: to come in and say, we love him, he fits us,
25:37
Speaker 3: We're going to give that kind of a deal. Because
25:39
Speaker 3: remember now the Jaguars, they want to keep Jacoby Myers
25:42
Speaker 3: for sure, right and Brenton Strange is coming up for
25:44
Speaker 3: a deal at some point, and I don't know what
25:46
Speaker 3: they're going to do with Devin Lloyd. And you've got
25:49
Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker playing on the fifth year option and you
25:51
Speaker 3: kind of following it, and you want to keep Cole
25:52
Speaker 3: Van Landin, I mean, Parker Washington, I mean's so the
25:55
Speaker 3: number has to fit what the Jaguars think about their
25:59
Speaker 3: entire roster. It can't just be that emotional. We love him,
26:01
Speaker 3: we want him. Everybody wants this guy today, everybody wants
26:05
Speaker 3: to keep him because of the kind of person and
26:06
Speaker 3: player he is. But it's got to fit a very
26:09
Speaker 3: specific puzzle on the board.
26:11
Speaker 4: You know what, as did what? I tagged? You tagged
26:15
Speaker 4: you're it? It might tag oh, well, good point, I hope.
26:19
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, whatever that number is. I'm not advocating not
26:23
Speaker 3: getting him, but maybe you've got to find that tag too.
26:25
Speaker 1: Running back numbers are not terrible usually, so hopefully they
26:28
Speaker 1: could make that work, give themself a little more time.
26:30
Speaker 4: They could play its way a new real possibility.
26:31
Speaker 1: Take the can down the road. Good point of view.
26:33
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27:02
Speaker 9: Six total touchdowns TJ three receiving touchdowns.
27:24
Speaker 10: Three interceptions on defense. We asked you to come out
27:34
Speaker 10: and take care of business. I ask you to do
27:37
Speaker 10: that every.
27:38
Speaker 9: Time we may we can't.
27:40
Speaker 7: We have to side with this group.
27:42
Speaker 10: Every single time. You guys continue to elevate and raise
27:46
Speaker 10: the standard.
27:50
Speaker 1: It's such a good offensive game. I forgot its three interceptions.
27:53
Speaker 3: In this game. Yeah, they've got eighteen on the season,
27:55
Speaker 3: which is second early Chicago Bears, and they've got twenty
27:57
Speaker 3: six takeaways, so they're still on track to be one
27:59
Speaker 3: of four teams in Jaguars history with at least thirty
28:02
Speaker 3: takeaways and all of those have been good playoff teams.
28:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, solid defense, and it's a team right now that
28:09
Speaker 5: has something different playing well each wenn or is something
28:12
Speaker 5: different standing out.
28:14
Speaker 4: Everybody's playing well right now. So five wins in a
28:17
Speaker 4: round December.
28:17
Speaker 3: I think, three straight games with at least three sacks,
28:19
Speaker 3: so at least the pressure is starting to get home
28:21
Speaker 3: after a couple of weeks. Remember that Houston game, there
28:23
Speaker 3: was no pressure on Davis Mills and since that moment,
28:26
Speaker 3: they've gotten that pressure ratcheted back up.
28:28
Speaker 1: And everybody's getting healthy too, which we love to see.
28:30
Speaker 1: No major injuries, so that's something that we can I know,
28:33
Speaker 1: we love it. Stay focused with us this week. I
28:36
Speaker 1: mean there's a huge game coming up. Obviously, we're taking
28:38
Speaker 1: on Denver on Sunday, so we'll be talking a ton
28:40
Speaker 1: about that on Wednesday and Thursday here on jag XAM.
28:43
Speaker 1: So until then, enjoy victory Monday. We'll see you back
28:46
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