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Ep. 29: Keys to Jaguars Success in Order to Defeat the Bills | Jags A.M. Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into jags Am here in London, Sunny London, just
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Speaker 1: outside of London. We are in England for JAG's am
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Speaker 1: our final diaxam on location before we head back to Florida,
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Speaker 1: and we got a little Florida weather today, so we're
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Speaker 1: not too mad about that. You guys, what's this trip
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Speaker 1: been like for you? I think it's interesting to kind
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Speaker 1: of see how the team is kind of stuck together
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a training camp like fial because
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Speaker 1: they've been with each other for it's going to be
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Speaker 1: two weeks now almost at the end of this.
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Speaker 2: I'm marveled just at the logistics of what it takes
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Speaker 2: to do this right. I mean, you talk about the
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Speaker 2: team and they've done it for several years, but now
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Speaker 2: you bring over an entire organization because that Wembley game
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Speaker 2: is a Jaguars game, you know from all the broadcasts
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Speaker 2: that we do, and we do a lot of them,
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Speaker 2: you know, evening morning shows. It takes a huge effort
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Speaker 2: to do something like I marvel how smoothly it's gone.
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Speaker 2: At least from my perspective, it appears everything has gone well.
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Speaker 3: It's a remarkable logistical feat and I think what's most impressive, Brian.
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Speaker 3: You were here the first year, and I mean the
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Speaker 3: first year of London thirteen. Those times sort of felt
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Speaker 3: like experiments, if you will. You know, it was interesting,
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Speaker 3: but it wasn't really they were making the commitment. But
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Speaker 3: now it feels like this is something that they just do.
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Speaker 3: They know how to do, and I don't say flexing,
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Speaker 3: but you know what I'm saying. Now they do it
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Speaker 3: and do it well and show in the full commitment.
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Speaker 3: It has been an impressive growth on that front.
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Speaker 2: And we should point out they have a staff here
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Speaker 2: now in the UK and shout out to them because
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Speaker 2: they worked hard to make sure that the time work
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Speaker 2: was your place to make this happen. Now, let's see
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Speaker 2: if the team could go make it happen and go
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Speaker 2: home with two.
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Speaker 1: Wins, that sure would be nice. Let's talk about our
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Speaker 1: big things this week because it's going to be a
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Speaker 1: big game on Sunday. Our first big thing is buckle up,
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Speaker 1: because the Bills have been a force to be reckoned
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Speaker 1: with their last three games or so, and the weapons
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Speaker 1: on offense make them very dangerous. Doug Peterson talked about
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Speaker 1: what the Bills bring to the table earlier this week.
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Speaker 4: This is a great football team, great quarterback, obviously, well coached,
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Speaker 4: you know, obviously the the fingerprints of coach McDermott on
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Speaker 4: this defense and what they're doing. So yeah, it's a
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Speaker 4: challenge for us, and you know it's something that we
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Speaker 4: can learn maybe from from that Chiefs. Game preparation, hard work,
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Speaker 4: all of that going into this week and and you know,
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Speaker 4: just know that that our guys will be you know,
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Speaker 4: they'll be ready, you know, for for Sunday and look
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Speaker 4: forward to the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Ran, can you truly be ready for the Bills when
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Speaker 1: they're on their best effort?
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Speaker 2: Well, you can be ready to do what you do, right.
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Speaker 2: We hear that all the time, and it's not about them,
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Speaker 2: it's about us. So if Doug and his team are
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Speaker 2: prepared to do what they do at a high level,
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Speaker 2: then yeah, you can be ready for it. I was
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Speaker 2: walking up off the bus this morning and talking with
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Speaker 2: some folks and we came to the consensus that if
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars could get off to a fast start on Sunday, right,
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Speaker 2: then you'd have an advantage over the Bills, who undoubtedly
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Speaker 2: will have to get their sea legs. You know, they
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Speaker 2: land tomorrow morning and players have talked about it. It's
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Speaker 2: a struggle at times, you know, to feel good by Sunday.
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Speaker 2: So if you're gonna have an advantage, it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: getting off to a fast start early.
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Speaker 3: Well, Doug loves to say that it's about them, me
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Speaker 3: and the Jaguars, nothing about the opponent. This week, it
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Speaker 3: might be about them. And because this team's really good,
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Speaker 3: we talked yesterday, might be the best team in the
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Speaker 3: AFC right now, might be the best team in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: I agree to fast start.
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Speaker 5: The fast start would.
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Speaker 3: Enable you to get some confidence, start converting in the
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Speaker 3: red zone, get a little bit of a lead. But
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Speaker 3: then guess what, you got to keep building on that leagueuse.
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Speaker 3: This team is really really good offensively, but a fast
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Speaker 3: start would enable you to maybe get the other Josh
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Speaker 3: Allen not nervous but trying to make plays, get into
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Speaker 3: his bugaboo.
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Speaker 5: A little bit.
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Speaker 3: I think that's really their hope. I agree with the consensus,
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Speaker 3: and usually i'm sort of a contrarian.
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Speaker 2: Brian, Well, if there's an advantage to having been here
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Speaker 2: all week and a disadvantage to coming over, it's going
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Speaker 2: to evaporate quickly because they're that good.
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Speaker 5: So you better take advantage of it.
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Speaker 1: The truly are our big thing. Number two this week
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Speaker 1: is must be better. Because we've talked about the third
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Speaker 1: down issues that the Jaguars have had. Bills do not
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Speaker 1: have that problem. They are very impressive on third down.
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Speaker 1: And Doug talked earlier this week a little bit about
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Speaker 1: what Josh Allen does and what makes him so dangerous.
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Speaker 4: Last time I faced him, I think was in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 4: you know, and it's a challenge to get him on
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Speaker 4: the ground when you can. But he's got a big
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Speaker 4: arm all asleep on the receivers and his ability to
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Speaker 4: extend plays and he does a nice job of finding,
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Speaker 4: you know, finding his targets. And it's a challenge for
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Speaker 4: our defense this week, right.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen always seems to find a way other than
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Speaker 1: when he's having one of those three interception games, of course,
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Speaker 1: but when he's on, he is he liked out.
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Speaker 2: They don't need to line up in that rugby scrum
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Speaker 2: that the Eagles have made so famous. He doesn't need
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Speaker 2: anyone pushing him from behind. He's six foot six and
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Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty pounds, and it really it stands
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Speaker 2: out that you've got to get those guys into third
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Speaker 2: and long situations so that Josh Allen can't just line
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Speaker 2: up on third and two and fall forward and get
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Speaker 2: it on his own. He's a tremendous player, and you
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Speaker 2: want to put him in the most difficult situations as possible,
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Speaker 2: and it's going to be up to the Jags, Josh
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Speaker 2: Allen Andrevon Walker.
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Speaker 5: To do that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's really a unique guy. Build wise, he reminds
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Speaker 3: you of Roethlisberger a little bit, but yet he uses
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Speaker 3: that size and speed that he's got more than Ben
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Speaker 3: did in terms of trying to be an offensive weapon
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Speaker 3: with it. You wonder a little bit can he hold
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Speaker 3: up for his entire career?
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Speaker 5: But Ben did you know?
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Speaker 3: So that size prototypical on that front. I just keep
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Speaker 3: going back to it. You've got to get him in
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Speaker 3: long yardage. You've got you almost have to assume that
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Speaker 3: they're gonna score a bunch of points. You have to
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Speaker 3: hope that his mistakes come in a situation you can
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Speaker 3: take advantage of him, and you've got to score. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if a couple of turnovers is enough against
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Speaker 3: this team. If you're not being efficient offensively, I joked earlier,
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Speaker 3: it's about the Bills more than the Jaguars, But it's
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Speaker 3: about the Jaguars offensively score enough to keep up with
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Speaker 3: this guy.
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Speaker 1: Our big thing, Number three is about the big man
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Speaker 1: back in action, Cam Robinson practiced yesterday. Doug wasn't entirely
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Speaker 1: committed that Ken was gonna start in this first game back,
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Speaker 1: but he did talk a little bit about the O
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Speaker 1: line yesterday.
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Speaker 4: We have no issues with Luke at all. He's done
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Speaker 4: an outstanding job.
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Speaker 5: You know, we do know.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Shatley is a backup center for us. If
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Speaker 4: something would happened to Luke, obviously you know Tyler would
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Speaker 4: be the one to go in. But there's no no
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Speaker 4: conversation at all about that. Fully confident in Luke.
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Speaker 1: The Doug hasn't fully told us yet. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: speak for him and say Cam Robinson is definitely playing
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Speaker 1: in this game on Sunday. Likely that means Walker little
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Speaker 1: move over to left guard, and then he's committed to
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Speaker 1: keeping Fortner at center at least for now. So I'll
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Speaker 1: just let everybody know that's probably what's gonna end up happening.
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Speaker 1: But how much can Cam help that?
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Speaker 5: I think a lot.
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Speaker 2: You know, we got the chance to see him before practice,
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Speaker 2: then I go down to the practice field afterwards to
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Speaker 2: grab a coach in the player. So I got to
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Speaker 2: see him at the end of practice yesterday and then
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Speaker 2: going off to the side with the offensive lineman. He
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Speaker 2: looks good, and he looks motivated, and he looks hungry.
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Speaker 2: He was very energetic yesterday. I thought that they might
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Speaker 2: put Tyler Shatley in at center right, and I was
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Speaker 2: clearly reaching on that when according to the head coach,
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Speaker 2: I'm absolutely believed that Cam Robinson is going to play
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Speaker 2: on Sunday, and I think he might play well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think they wanted to make sure this
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Speaker 3: week that he was ready to do that.
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Speaker 1: Doug.
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Speaker 3: He putting words in Doug's mouth. But when he was
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Speaker 3: asked about Cam, you had mentioned yesterday that he wasn't
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Speaker 3: in great shape and training camp. Doug said something to
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Speaker 3: the effect of.
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Speaker 5: He knew what he.
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Speaker 3: Needed to get ready. So I think Cam knew in August. Well, okay,
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Speaker 3: it's it's great, but I'm not playing until October. It
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Speaker 3: feels like he knew what he had to do to
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Speaker 3: get ready by October. I'm with you, guys, I'd be
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Speaker 3: surprised if he doesn't play, and you know, it's not
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Speaker 3: fair to think he's going to change the entire offensive line,
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Speaker 3: but he is a really good run blocker, and you know,
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Speaker 3: your best guys are your best guys for a reason.
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Speaker 3: It stands to reason that on the left side they
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Speaker 3: will be stronger with him than without him.
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Speaker 2: I do think he will have an impact because when
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Speaker 2: you move Walker Little, who's a really good football player inside,
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Speaker 2: now you've to positions. You got Leonard Floyd coming from
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Speaker 2: the outside, we expect to see von Miller coming from
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Speaker 2: the outside. They're a talented defensive front, and to have
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Speaker 2: a guy like that who is a top competitor, I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's the best way to describe him.
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Speaker 5: He has an edge about him.
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Speaker 2: He wants to not only put you on the ground,
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Speaker 2: he wants you to stay there. And that's the kind
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Speaker 2: of mentality that I don't think we've seen from this
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Speaker 2: offensive line in his absence.
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Speaker 5: So it's good to have him back.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this team pressing and maybe just the
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Speaker 1: feel wasn't quite there last couple of weeks. Obviously, they
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Speaker 1: gut on track up against the Falcons. But Cam's got
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Speaker 1: a little ads dude to him, and that's what they
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Speaker 1: need on the line. He really works well with Anton Harrison,
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Speaker 1: the rookie right tackle, So I think just the energy
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Speaker 1: Cam rings sometimes can be helpful.
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Speaker 5: He doesn't have a little attitude, He has a lot.
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Speaker 3: But he's the guy who can get another guy's face
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Speaker 3: and will and you know, it's not everybody's personality type,
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Speaker 3: but it always has been Cam's. He's also the guy
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Speaker 3: who'll get in their face and then if something's going
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Speaker 3: on in the field that's untoward, if you will, he's
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Speaker 3: the guy who'll go get in the other team's face.
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Speaker 3: So he's always been that spirit leader, so to speak.
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Speaker 3: And I don't want to overplay it because there's other factors,
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Speaker 3: but he is that guy, and players and coaches have
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Speaker 3: always thought much more highly than maybe fans do who
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Speaker 3: are always looking at Okay, maybe this set giving up
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Speaker 3: Cam Robinson matters to this offense.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's been a long time since we've seen him too, right,
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Speaker 2: he hasn't been in the lineup since the Dallas game
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Speaker 2: last year. He wasn't on that entire run to the
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Speaker 2: playoffs or into the playoffs, so it's been a long time.
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Speaker 5: It'll be good to have him.
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Speaker 1: Back, all right, Stay with us. We're gonna hear from
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence what he had to say about the upcoming
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Speaker 1: game against the Bill. Welcome back into this Thursday edition
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Speaker 1: of Jags Am got a big game on Sunday against
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, who are playing amazing football right now.
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Speaker 1: We talked to Trevor Lawrence earlier this week, and he's
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Speaker 1: always complimentary of the teams that they're playing, but someone
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Speaker 1: asked him about Josh Allen and what he brings to
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Speaker 1: the table, and here's what he had to say.
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Speaker 6: He's a great player, obviously, and I'll put we played
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Speaker 6: against them two years ago and we're going into that game,
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Speaker 6: and just the just the threat that he poses, you know,
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Speaker 6: running the ball, throwing the ball, extending plays obviously, not
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Speaker 6: just end their offense, their receivers, their line, their backs.
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Speaker 6: I think every all those guys are capable of making plays,
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Speaker 6: and obviously it starts with him and just his ability.
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Speaker 6: I think.
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Speaker 1: Talking there about Josh Allen's ability to extend those plays,
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Speaker 1: that goes back to third down and how successful they've been.
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Speaker 1: But I think they're above fifty percent on conversions on
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Speaker 1: third down and that's what makes that offense I lethal
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Speaker 1: they just.
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Speaker 2: Have their entire playbook open, right. They are always in
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Speaker 2: manageable situations because they've got the long game with Stefon
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Speaker 2: Diggs and Gabriel Davis. They've got the intermediate game with
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Speaker 2: Dawson Knox and the rookie tight end. They just have
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Speaker 2: so many and they and they run the ball, which
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Speaker 2: they haven't done, you know, very much the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years. They're just a complete offense. And when you're
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Speaker 2: in thirty three fifty third down, I mean, wow, you
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Speaker 2: can do whatever you want.
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Speaker 3: Well, he gives them such an interesting dynamic. Think about
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Speaker 3: last week when it felt like Trevor Lawrence running a
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Speaker 3: little bit sort of gave the Jaguars a little bit
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Speaker 3: of confidence, and on third down a couple of those
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Speaker 3: conversions were big. Well, they've always got that with Josh Allen,
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Speaker 3: and he's such a big man that on third and five,
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Speaker 3: the defense has to account for him running even when
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Speaker 3: the play may not feel like a run with any
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Speaker 3: other quarterback. So I think that gives them a huge
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Speaker 3: advantage on third down because he'll always do it. Some
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks just won't take that chance, won't use their bodies.
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Speaker 5: So they're a tough out they really are.
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Speaker 2: He's as big to give people a perspective as Josh
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Speaker 2: Allen had his biggest.
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Speaker 5: Trade on Walk.
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Speaker 3: Well, he is Josh Allen.
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Speaker 5: I see what you do there.
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Speaker 1: On buffalo defensive side of the ball. The injury report
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Speaker 1: is pretty extensive for them. They are hopeful that von
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Speaker 1: Viller von Miller might come back at some point. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he'll playing. That's good day, not for us,
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Speaker 1: not for us. Trey White had an injury last week,
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Speaker 1: and there's some other players, but as a whole, Buffalo's
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Speaker 1: defense is no slouch either, and Trevor talked about some
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Speaker 1: of the issues that they cause when they're on the field.
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Speaker 6: These are these are big games, but really, especially this
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Speaker 6: early season, every every game is a big game, no
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Speaker 6: matter if it's NFC, AFC, if it's a division game.
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Speaker 6: You're trying to get as many wins as possible to
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Speaker 6: put you in a good position at the end of
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Speaker 6: the season. So and this will do that for sure.
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Speaker 6: And obviously it's an AFC game, it's a it's a
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Speaker 6: big one, all right.
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Speaker 1: Big game. We know we've gone over that with with
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Speaker 1: him and a little bit of what they're going to
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Speaker 1: be able to do this will this will be telling
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Speaker 1: the sense of they've struggled on offense against some teams
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Speaker 1: that maybe didn't have as good of a defense. What
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Speaker 1: will this show if they're able to kind of convert
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Speaker 1: and be the team that we hope they can be.
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Speaker 2: I think it'll show that Cam Robinson's improved the offensive line.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna need that. You're going to have
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Speaker 2: to be able to run the ball against these guys,
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Speaker 2: because last week, if you saw the Dolphins game, when
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Speaker 2: they build a lead, they just sent everyone and they
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Speaker 2: have a wonderful rotation of pass rushers. If you're a
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Speaker 2: Bills fan, I mean, they can hit you with the
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Speaker 2: big guy. They can hit you with with now Von Miller,
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Speaker 2: who's gonna play in third down situations probably in his
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Speaker 2: first game back, or Leonard Floyd.
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Speaker 5: They can do a lot of different things.
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Speaker 2: And with Sean McDermott running the defense, you know, they
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Speaker 2: like to send as much pressure as possible, so you
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Speaker 2: better be able to run the ball to slow that down.
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Speaker 3: Well, if they can score against this team, it shows
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Speaker 3: you they're okay. I mean, there's been so much angst
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Speaker 3: about this offense. I think eventually it's gonna work, because
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Speaker 3: there's too much talent on this team for it not
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Speaker 3: to work. It's just a matter of when it gets going.
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Speaker 3: I think, overall, what's interesting about this game, Brian, is
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Speaker 3: I think about the perception change if the Jaguars win
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Speaker 3: this all of a sudden. You know, right now everybody's
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Speaker 3: talking about the Bills being knee teen or about Miami
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Speaker 3: last week. You win this, now you're three and two,
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Speaker 3: both three and two, and you have a time advanta job.
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Speaker 3: So it's a huge game in that sense. If the
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Speaker 3: Bills win, it's gonna be tough for the Jaguars to
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Speaker 3: catch that team in terms of getting any any sort
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Speaker 3: of playoff thing. If the Jaguars win it all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, they're the flavor of the week next week.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it'll be interesting to see because remember the
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Speaker 2: Kansas City game was the big game, and they did
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Speaker 2: not have a good week of practice. So I expect
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Speaker 2: talking to these guys on Sunday morning to.
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Speaker 5: Hear we had a really good week of practice. Because
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Speaker 5: they know it.
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Speaker 2: Dug into maybe that in his press conference yesterday. They
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Speaker 2: know what it takes to be ready for one of
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Speaker 2: these games. One of these teams.
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Speaker 1: How much of is it gonna come down to offensive
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Speaker 1: keeping the ball and keeping the ball out of the
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Speaker 1: other Josh Allen's hands, and just having the offense on
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Speaker 1: the field more often for the Jay you know.
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Speaker 2: John, they can score so fast. I'm not sure how
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Speaker 2: much time of possession matters. I think every possession in
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Speaker 2: terms of the result matters more than how long it
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Speaker 2: takes to get there.
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Speaker 5: You're gonna need points.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm never I'm sorry, Bryan. I'm never a big
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Speaker 3: to keep the ball out of the other team's hands
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Speaker 3: just for the sake of doing that, because I've always
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Speaker 3: believed at some point, if you're scoring, no matter how
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Speaker 3: much the other team has the ball, they can't keep
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Speaker 3: up with you. So I think more than that guy
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Speaker 3: is just when they get the ball past the fifty,
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Speaker 3: which Jags have done a lot this year and will do.
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Speaker 3: They have to turn that into touchdowns and points and
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Speaker 3: not punts some frustration. So if anything is really defined
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Speaker 3: the offense, it's been the opportunities there third downs and
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Speaker 3: then not red zone, and then you look.
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Speaker 5: At the status sheet.
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Speaker 3: They haven't taken advantage of it, so there's not that
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Speaker 3: much broken if you take advantage of the big situations.
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Speaker 3: They're playing well enough to get themselves there, but then
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Speaker 3: sort of fading in that moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, just to build on that real quick, the drag
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Speaker 2: Wars have nine red zone trips in four games. Nine
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Speaker 2: that's two and slightly more than that in four games,
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Speaker 2: but three of those came right in Week one and
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Speaker 2: they scored three touchdowns. Since then, they've had six trips
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Speaker 2: and only one touchdown. They've got to get to the
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Speaker 2: red zone more, and you get there by staying on
17:07
Speaker 2: the field on third down, at which they're only converting
17:09
Speaker 2: thirty one percent of the time. It's about getting to
17:12
Speaker 2: the red zone and taking advantage of the opportunities this week.
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Speaker 3: But they've been past the fifty a lot, so it's
17:17
Speaker 3: not like there's been some years around here where you
17:21
Speaker 3: looked at it in the offense, you know, it was
17:24
Speaker 3: almost pointless to do these kind of conversations because they
17:26
Speaker 3: weren't doing anything. So you're like, okay, well we can
17:28
Speaker 3: talk about it, but it's not can get fixed. This
17:30
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like that. It just feels like, again big moments.
17:35
Speaker 3: Red zone's a great stat but you've been at the
17:36
Speaker 3: thirty five of the teams a lot and haven't gotten
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Speaker 3: the ball in the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Missed opportunities. Hopefully they take advantage they will need to
17:43
Speaker 1: against Buffalo. Stay with us as we look at he will,
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Speaker 1: he owned, he might. Coming up after the break, Welcome
17:54
Speaker 1: back to Jack Sam as we're prepping for a big
17:56
Speaker 1: game in London against the Buffalo Bills. We're gonna do
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Speaker 1: so he will, he won't, he might. This week presented
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Speaker 1: by Suddeth Brian, Who do you have this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm taking Josh Allen the Jack Wars Josh Allen to
18:07
Speaker 2: be clear on that one.
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Speaker 5: He'll be a force again this week.
18:10
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's gonna get three sacks, right, but
18:13
Speaker 2: he told me yesterday he's heard the three sacks, no sacks,
18:17
Speaker 2: no sacks, three sacks criticism, which is be more consistent
18:20
Speaker 2: and show up every week. So he'll show up this week.
18:23
Speaker 2: And he's very motivated to finish, he said it. Coach
18:27
Speaker 2: Bill Shoey told me that yesterday. So he will finish.
18:31
Speaker 2: You know, in fact, he won't have three sacks because
18:33
Speaker 2: what you're gonna see is the Bills are looking for
18:36
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. He got him in twenty twenty one. He
18:38
Speaker 2: got the Falcons last week. They're not gonna let him
18:41
Speaker 2: get him that much, but he might open things up
18:44
Speaker 2: on the other side for Trae von Walker, who had
18:46
Speaker 2: two sacks in the first four games and who Bill
18:49
Speaker 2: Shuey told me yesterday is also showing a lot of
18:52
Speaker 2: signs of life in the past.
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Speaker 5: Rush.
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Speaker 2: I know you don't see it on game day yet,
18:56
Speaker 2: but Shuey believes it's coming. So it might be a
18:59
Speaker 2: situation where Josh Shallon opens it up for trayvon Walker
19:02
Speaker 2: and we finally see that big day from him.
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Speaker 3: Well, I went with Christian Kirk. He will, you know,
19:09
Speaker 3: and he's gonna be part of it from here on out.
19:11
Speaker 3: And there were times in the first two or three
19:14
Speaker 3: weeks where it felt like Trevor wasn't sure exactly how
19:19
Speaker 3: to work everybody into the offense. This year, it felt
19:22
Speaker 3: like that's going away a little bit. So Christian Kirk
19:26
Speaker 3: won't disappear. And I don't mean to use that word
19:29
Speaker 3: with Christian Kirk. I don't think he has really disappeared,
19:31
Speaker 3: but he's going to be part of it and he
19:34
Speaker 3: might have his you know, it's almost not fair to
19:37
Speaker 3: call it a breakout game with Christian because he's so
19:39
Speaker 3: consistent when he gets the ball. But this might be
19:42
Speaker 3: the week where it looks like last year for him
19:46
Speaker 3: and what's so important about him. As we've all talked about,
19:50
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about Zay Jones's status yet day to
19:54
Speaker 3: day it sounds like he's gonna be game time decision.
19:56
Speaker 3: But the trust that Trevor has with Christian Kirk against
19:59
Speaker 3: this Bill defense, that might might I see what you're
20:03
Speaker 3: doing again following the format, that might be a really
20:08
Speaker 3: key part of the Jaguars offense this week, and it
20:10
Speaker 3: might be what Trevor really depends on.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Andre Cisco for my choice
20:15
Speaker 1: this week. He's been a bit of a ballhawk so far.
20:17
Speaker 1: He's been really impressive in the first four games, So
20:19
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he will get his hands on the
20:21
Speaker 1: football this week, whether it's an interception, forcing a fumble.
20:24
Speaker 1: I think he'll be involved in a turnover somehow and
20:28
Speaker 1: he won't have any issues with fumbling again. I know
20:31
Speaker 1: some of his teammates were getting on him after that
20:33
Speaker 1: interception last week when he fumbled and Boye Luken was
20:36
Speaker 1: able to get on the football, so they kept it
20:37
Speaker 1: but obviously never won a fumble. After getting an interception,
20:40
Speaker 1: I think he might finally find the end zone. He's
20:42
Speaker 1: had two opportunities on interceptions that could have been pick
20:45
Speaker 1: sixes that weren't. So I think if he does get
20:47
Speaker 1: another interception he's in that position again, he'll he'll find
20:50
Speaker 1: pay dirt.
20:51
Speaker 3: And here's hoping, Brian, i' let you speak to this.
20:54
Speaker 3: He also might be the most underrated, really good player
20:57
Speaker 3: on this team, without a doubt, and one of the
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Speaker 3: better safeties this team's had in a long long time.
21:02
Speaker 3: He's growing into that you thought he might be that
21:04
Speaker 3: when he was drafted, because he was drafted lower than
21:06
Speaker 3: he probably should have been.
21:08
Speaker 5: I don't talk about him enough. I don't.
21:10
Speaker 3: I probably don't think about him enough in terms of
21:11
Speaker 3: being really, really good. But he's starting to get to
21:14
Speaker 3: that level of do you resign this gap? Oh, I
21:18
Speaker 3: have to get him well, you know, because he's starting
21:20
Speaker 3: to get to the level where with all the salary
21:23
Speaker 3: caps and if.
21:24
Speaker 2: You're worried about being able to afford him, it tells you.
21:27
Speaker 5: How good he has become.
21:29
Speaker 2: As my point, and folks who are watching on TV
21:31
Speaker 2: are at a bit of a disadvantage because they don't
21:33
Speaker 2: always show you enough of the screen to see how
21:36
Speaker 2: deep he can get.
21:37
Speaker 5: He's big enough to.
21:38
Speaker 2: Come down into the box and play the run right,
21:40
Speaker 2: but he's also a guy in that deep third who
21:43
Speaker 2: can roam from sideline to the opposite hash mark and
21:46
Speaker 2: the other way. He's a tremendous football player and getting
21:49
Speaker 2: better every week. He's the kind of guy that you
21:51
Speaker 2: want to build your team on. The salary CAP's gonna
21:54
Speaker 2: take a big bump up in twenty twenty five. They're
21:57
Speaker 2: gonna have to find a way to get him. You
21:59
Speaker 2: don't but players like that go. But he's not a
22:01
Speaker 2: guy that everybody has talked about for the last year. So, oh,
22:04
Speaker 2: how are they going to rework this going forward? I
22:06
Speaker 2: think think he's gonna have to because safety isn't one
22:08
Speaker 2: of those key positions. Right quarterback, left tackle, wide receiver,
22:11
Speaker 2: pass rusher, in corner are the five premium positions. But
22:14
Speaker 2: a safety who can do so many different things like that,
22:17
Speaker 2: you gotta find a way to do that.
22:18
Speaker 1: And he makes others on the defense look good too.
22:20
Speaker 1: I think he helps out certainly, him and Tyson Campbell
22:22
Speaker 1: being out there together.
22:24
Speaker 2: He would have been a first round pick instead of
22:25
Speaker 2: a third round pick had he not torn his acl
22:27
Speaker 2: early in his final year at Syracuse. He's that good.
22:31
Speaker 2: He's big, he's strong, he's smart, super motivated, super motivated.
22:35
Speaker 2: As you talked to him yesterday, you can tell he's
22:37
Speaker 2: a really good football player.
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Speaker 5: He's not when you want to get away.
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Speaker 1: I expect a big game from him on Sunday against
22:42
Speaker 1: the Bills. Stay with us, we'll have our final preview
22:44
Speaker 1: what we expect this weekend on Jags Am. This is
22:50
Speaker 1: our final little bit from outside of London, England before
22:53
Speaker 1: we head home and before we have a big game
22:55
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Are we going to be heading back to
22:57
Speaker 1: and oh what do we think?
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Speaker 3: It's tough to call him as the winners this week
23:03
Speaker 3: because the Bills are playing so so well, but I've
23:05
Speaker 3: been sort of negative about that all week and ceter
23:08
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna go into the weekend thinking more about
23:10
Speaker 3: the opportunity they win this again. All of a sudden,
23:13
Speaker 3: they become the team that everybody was thinking they were
23:16
Speaker 3: gonna be before the season, and there, all of a
23:18
Speaker 3: sudden that hot team.
23:19
Speaker 5: So can't quite pick him, but maybe well I'll jump
23:23
Speaker 5: in right.
23:24
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that this team gets the over
23:29
Speaker 2: the disappointment. Right the Houston Texans game was a massive disappointment.
23:33
Speaker 2: I think this is that counterbalance, that delightful opportunity that
23:37
Speaker 2: comes up that you're not expecting. The Bills are coming
23:40
Speaker 2: over here. Talking to players all week long, you know
23:43
Speaker 2: it's real how bad it's maybe not the right word,
23:46
Speaker 2: but how you feel on Friday and Saturday, and you
23:49
Speaker 2: got to work to get ready to play on Sunday.
23:51
Speaker 2: And I think the Jaguars understand the opportunity to get
23:53
Speaker 2: off to a good start, and I think they stay
23:56
Speaker 2: ahead of them. It's gonna be narrow, but I think
23:57
Speaker 2: they get a couple of turnovers and they stay head
24:00
Speaker 2: of the Bills and they pull off.
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Speaker 5: It would be a huge upset.
24:03
Speaker 2: I think I haven't looked yet, but I imagine everyone
24:05
Speaker 2: back in the stage is picking the Bills to win comfortably.
24:08
Speaker 2: So my guess is is that this would be an upset,
24:11
Speaker 2: And I think the Jaguars find a way to get
24:12
Speaker 2: it done and get to three and two, and then
24:15
Speaker 2: you got to come home to a Colts game that's
24:16
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, surprisingly a big game.
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Speaker 1: I think with the bills volatility in the past, there's
24:22
Speaker 1: always a chance that you know, the turnovers can be
24:24
Speaker 1: coming from Josh Allen's way, so that's always an opportunity.
24:27
Speaker 1: With the defense playing as well as they are, there's
24:28
Speaker 1: a chance there. And I think for me, if you know,
24:31
Speaker 1: not to be a happy in a lost situation, but
24:33
Speaker 1: if we can see the offense score like they lose,
24:35
Speaker 1: like thirty one to twenty eight, something like that, but
24:37
Speaker 1: the offense gets to where we want them to be,
24:39
Speaker 1: I'm very encouraged by that. So I'm hoping for a
24:42
Speaker 1: good effort, hoping for one of those days for the
24:44
Speaker 1: other Josh Allen and a good day for our Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: So well, have to see what actually plays out on Sunday.
24:49
Speaker 1: We appreciate you joining us on Jags Am. We'll check
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Speaker 1: in with you next week and of course to have
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Speaker 1: all your post game coverage for you.