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Fred Taylor: Texans matchup important for confidence | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. It's January. Happy new Year to your Fred,
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  Speaker 1: and here we go. The Jaguars are in Houston to
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  Speaker 1: settle a score with the Texans. How are you. I'm good, JP,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Actually, man, Happy new year to you. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: meaningful football in January. That's always a great resolution, right,
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  Speaker 1: A great way to start the new year. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguars fan. Uh man, it's gonna be exciting. Almost
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  Speaker 1: exists as exciting. That's trying to figure out all these
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  Speaker 1: different potential scenarios and the playoff looks and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's so exciting, Jp. I just want to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all these different scenarios, man, uh, you know, forget about
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  Speaker 1: all of that. I say, bottom line is you win.
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  Speaker 1: You're in. That's all that matters. We gotta keep grinding
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  Speaker 1: and keep fighting and then find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: in this thing. You know. It's an interesting approach. Doug
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  Speaker 1: Peterson was asked earlier this week, Hey, you know theory
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  Speaker 1: you could rest some guys and get ready for Week
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  Speaker 1: eight team because it's for all the marbles in the
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  Speaker 1: a f C South no matter what happens this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: there is still the backdoor possibility of a wild card
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  Speaker 1: some other things happen the next two weeks. If they
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  Speaker 1: lose next week, they gotta win this game. So that's
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  Speaker 1: still out there. And you know, so Dougs playing his guys,
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  Speaker 1: he said, there's no such thing as a meaningless football game,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna go out and try to carry this momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe in that momentum? First of all? Is
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  Speaker 1: that a real thing? And you know, can that carry
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  Speaker 1: in the week seventeen? Yeah, I certainly do believe in momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Act the titen, the Titans fans or even their players
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  Speaker 1: and their coaching staff. You know, if you have an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to speak to some of them, I think after
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  Speaker 1: their Dallas loss, what was that six in a row
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  Speaker 1: for them? And on the flip side, you're saying our
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  Speaker 1: last five games were four and one, so that that's
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  Speaker 1: all momentum. Uh and uh, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: players want to be out there. The guys are doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job of taking care of their bodies at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point of season. You know, we've been hit
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  Speaker 1: with a few injuries. You know, with Smooth and uh
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  Speaker 1: and Cam obviously, but you want to get guys out there,
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  Speaker 1: especially on those offensive defensive line, because these guys have
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  Speaker 1: to match, they have to communicate, they have to gel.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's very important to get those players
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  Speaker 1: out there and get them their reps and their snaps
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  Speaker 1: in uh so they can find a rhythm going into
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  Speaker 1: the last game of the season, which is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game of the season. Uh So, Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: with Doug. I believe the momentum. I believe in getting
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  Speaker 1: the guys out there, getting them in tune. Uh and
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  Speaker 1: more importantly getting confidence. You know, just going back looking
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  Speaker 1: at the Thursday night game JP, I think that was
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  Speaker 1: the by design, that was the Titans play, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what they try to do, have them trying to get
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  Speaker 1: Dobbs rep, you know, not knowing who's gonna be that guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm looking down the road by any means, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not looking past the Texans, but I am looking down
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  Speaker 1: the road in terms of strategic game planning. Uh So. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So Doug will be smart. He's a very smart coach.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around the block, you know, multiple occasions. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: I think he is going to make sure, uh, guys
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  Speaker 1: that really need to get in there and get these
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  Speaker 1: snaps without sacrificing the overall outcome of the game. I
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  Speaker 1: think you'll make that decision and we'll see the display
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  Speaker 1: here today. Yeah, and I think it's the game goes along.
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  Speaker 1: If if it's in hand somehow and it's pretty much certain,
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  Speaker 1: then you might see some different in game decisions to
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  Speaker 1: move some guys around or whatever that is. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll get let's get to even going going right,
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  Speaker 1: going back to the Thursday night game too, Dallas didn't look.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas said, look, we are still in this hunt to
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  Speaker 1: put eventually, uh make play for a first round by
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  Speaker 1: you know, we could have went match for match to
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  Speaker 1: take some of our starters out, but they said no.
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  Speaker 1: I think the only player they had I was Pollered.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have a situation where Michael Parton's who,
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  Speaker 1: uh potentially the defensive player of the year. He had
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  Speaker 1: a big club on his on his on his hand,
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  Speaker 1: but he also has he left under twelve stitches under
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  Speaker 1: that thing. You know, he still got out there and
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  Speaker 1: he performed wonderfully, you know, without any fall off. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta put your guys out there. You can't play scared,
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  Speaker 1: you can't play afraid. You want to get out there
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  Speaker 1: and get you guys that rhythm. Make sure that they're
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  Speaker 1: all ready and uh win this one starts by winning
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  Speaker 1: this one, and then you you you make certain moves
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  Speaker 1: accordingly throughout the week to make sure they're available and
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  Speaker 1: ready for the next big one. Brin Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguar's offense is ranked six in the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: total offense right now, It's amazing to see how this
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  Speaker 1: thing is. Saying it a little lot there. This offense
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  Speaker 1: is six in the NFL right now. Fred, It's amazing
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  Speaker 1: see how it's grown over the year, right And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that obviously has to do with the growth
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  Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence and the last half of the season
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  Speaker 1: here and all the weapons around him. Every NFL player
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  Speaker 1: has some ego to them, Yes, I get that, but
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  Speaker 1: there aren't any divas in this locker room. They spread
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  Speaker 1: the wealth, they block for the other guys. They're genuinely
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  Speaker 1: excited when the other receiver makes a player tight end
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  Speaker 1: or running back or whoever it is. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: a nice family environment on this offense. And it's growing
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  Speaker 1: together with a coaching staff. This is fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I want to go back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, at the very beginning of the season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they realized they had they had number one pig from
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  Speaker 1: year ago and Trevor Lawrence. They said, what are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. Let's go out and find the best available
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  Speaker 1: coach for Trevor Lawrence. Uh. You know they kind of
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle Byron, Let's in there, a few other people were
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  Speaker 1: you know, sprinkled a few rumors of who would come in,
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  Speaker 1: and then ultimately they found a former quarterback, former Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl winning champion coach and it has been the best
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  Speaker 1: higher you know, in most recent history Jaguars history, that is,
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  Speaker 1: and bringing in coach Peterson to to to lead and
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  Speaker 1: and developed Trevor Lawrence. So I think you start there
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  Speaker 1: with Trent, with Shot and everyone that was involved in
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  Speaker 1: the hiring process. Um. So it's been a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: marriage to date. Uh. But in terms of everything you
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  Speaker 1: just said, an echo in that JP you have guys
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  Speaker 1: that they brought in in the off season and having Ingram,
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  Speaker 1: Christian kirk z Jones. You know, each of these guys
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  Speaker 1: are sixty plus reception guys, you know. So they've also
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  Speaker 1: come in here in one year, you know, less than
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  Speaker 1: a year actually, and they've changed the whole dynamics, the
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  Speaker 1: whole outlook of of the Jaguars offense, and it's paid off.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly paid his dividends. Uh, great moves across the
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  Speaker 1: board by Trent. So I want to give him credit
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  Speaker 1: when credits due, you know, because he got beat up
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  Speaker 1: in the off season a whole lot. But to come
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  Speaker 1: back and put up put together an offense that's ranked
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  Speaker 1: in the top ten and the lead statistically, I said,
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  Speaker 1: it says a lot to him, his conviction, what they
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  Speaker 1: believe in the guys they put around Trevor, and Trevor's development,
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  Speaker 1: how well he's worked. Coach Peterson and the offensive mind.
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  Speaker 1: A tremendous job that they've done this year in terms
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  Speaker 1: of keeping Trevor clean and man and minimizing those sacks,
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  Speaker 1: the sack output. I think they've done a great job
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  Speaker 1: across the board in the front, travisy E, t n
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  Speaker 1: coming back from injury. So there's so much many people
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  Speaker 1: I want to just give flowers too and shouts out too.
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  Speaker 1: But ultimately, um, they've played well together this year. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen enough for the Pivot podcast to know that you're
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  Speaker 1: the one that gives out flowers all the time, Fred
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  Speaker 1: Flowers doing this thing. But these guys are all deserving.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone I just named and people are when I do
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast JP, people are because we're not blowing
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  Speaker 1: flowers out the other end, you know what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by that. So these are real flowers. These are real flowers,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's definitely always from the heart bred. Not
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  Speaker 1: to jump ahead too far, but the excitement is building
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  Speaker 1: for the finale and week eighteen here in Jacksonville, tickets
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  Speaker 1: are almost gone. I mean it could be we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out after this weekend's results. It could be a primetime game.
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  Speaker 1: Um boy, this is for all the marbles against the
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  Speaker 1: Titans at home. Okay, let's just get to next week first,
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  Speaker 1: But boy, that's gonna be fun next week. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fun. You know this is it's truthfully in
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  Speaker 1: it's in the making of it. It's the it's the
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  Speaker 1: wild card game. I mean that's what it is. Card game.
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  Speaker 1: We need that excitement, you know, the riverfront there and
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  Speaker 1: on at at the bank at t I a bank field.
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  Speaker 1: We need all of that love. Man, everybody needs to
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  Speaker 1: be in there being played. You know, whatever the ticket costs,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it costs. If you can afford to show up,
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  Speaker 1: before to show up. If you can't be there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be there in spirit. UH, tune in via radio somehow,
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  Speaker 1: just cheer. Follow it on Twitter, you know, follow it
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  Speaker 1: or follow you guys from the radio. You know, find
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  Speaker 1: a way to tune in and have your moral support there.
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  Speaker 1: We need all sorts of energy from near and far,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Jaguar fans over the pond, across the pond.
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  Speaker 1: We just need all the good energy man, uh to
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  Speaker 1: keep those Titans at bay, deliver them their seventh loss
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  Speaker 1: in a row, and caldaput us to uh our first
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  Speaker 1: playoff and what what would be five years and seven team? Right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we need that energy, man. We need more importantly
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  Speaker 1: for the guys to get out there and play lights
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  Speaker 1: out how they've been playing and find a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really what it's all about. Well, look forward
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  Speaker 1: to that, Fred, and we'll talk to you after the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Texans game. Appreciate it. I'll be here, be here,
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  Speaker 1: nice and ready. Let's make it happen, baby,