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Coach Pederson on Cleaning Things Up in Week 15 | The Doug Pederson Show · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought you by Fresh
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show starts right now.
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Speaker 2: And welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It is the Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from
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Speaker 2: It's week fifteen.
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Speaker 3: The Ravens Jaguars game coming up at the Bank this
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Speaker 3: Sunday night.
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Speaker 4: J P.
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Speaker 2: Shadrick, Jeff Logoman and head coach Doug Peterson in studio
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Speaker 2: with us. Good afternoon, so you coach me to see
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Speaker 2: you again. And hey, you know, the big buzzword this
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Speaker 2: week around the building has been communication and it's week fifteen.
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Speaker 2: How how has that gone so far in practice this week?
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Speaker 2: Let's say, I.
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Speaker 5: Mean it's gone well. You know, my wife tells me
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Speaker 5: all the time that I need to be a better communicator,
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Speaker 5: right with her, and rightfully so, because if we don't communicate,
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Speaker 5: we're not on the same page. And so it's the
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Speaker 5: same thing with a football team. And and you know,
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Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks we've missed some opportunities both
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Speaker 5: sides of the ball. Really all three phases just just
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Speaker 5: by not opening our mouth. And and we just you know,
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Speaker 5: we ask our to We ask our guys all the time,
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Speaker 5: We challenge our guys all the time that you have
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Speaker 5: to talk, you have to communicate calls, you gotta you know,
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Speaker 5: you got to verbalize it because if you don't, big
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Speaker 5: players are gonna happen for your opponent. And that's what
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Speaker 5: happened last week up in Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think sometimes when you kind of get to
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Speaker 2: this point in the season, guys can take things for
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Speaker 2: granted that Okay, well he is already gonna know and
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Speaker 2: sometimes just that eye contact and it doesn't necessarily have
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Speaker 2: to be that verbal communication. The eye contact sometimes solves
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Speaker 2: a lot of that.
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Speaker 5: It does, and I think that comes with teams that
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Speaker 5: have been together for six, seven, eight years and players
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Speaker 5: that have been together for such a long time and
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Speaker 5: they've played in the same scheme together, and they can
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Speaker 5: do that. They can get away with just hey, just
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Speaker 5: a little verbal you know, heads up not or something
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Speaker 5: like that, or just make eye contact and and they
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Speaker 5: they're on the same page. But you know, when when
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Speaker 5: you're only in your second year and and you know
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Speaker 5: you're asking our guys to do that. We we need
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Speaker 5: to emphasize it. When I say we as the coaching staff,
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Speaker 5: we need to we need to demand it from our
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Speaker 5: players obviously, and get it out of them and and
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Speaker 5: and making sure that they're they're talking to one another
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Speaker 5: on the field.
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Speaker 2: So start with your your offense against this Ravens defense,
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Speaker 2: number two defense in the National Football League, and yards
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Speaker 2: allowed number two and points allowed. You went from the
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Speaker 2: number one defense in the league in Cleveland here to
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Speaker 2: Baltimore number two. What a challenge.
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Speaker 5: It's a great challenge, and we're excited for the opportunity.
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Speaker 5: Number one. You know, it seems like Baltimore and their
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Speaker 5: history have always had great defenses, right and and they
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Speaker 5: pride themselves on that. And you know, and I look
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Speaker 5: back at the Cleveland game and and we did some
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Speaker 5: really good things in that game, took took advantage of
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Speaker 5: some opportunities, we missed some opportunities, uh to score more
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Speaker 5: points and and and really felt like we had a
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Speaker 5: chance to win that football game. And and uh, you know,
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Speaker 5: the turnovers obviously are things that have kind of plagued
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Speaker 5: us and kept us back a little bit. This season
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Speaker 5: and going into this game, you know, you're playing probably
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Speaker 5: a much better offense number one, and and you really
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Speaker 5: can't give this team anything, any opportunities, any extra possession,
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Speaker 5: So you know, works cut out for us. It's a
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Speaker 5: good defensive front, good front, six seven guys up there,
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Speaker 5: and they and their secondary. They got some smart guys
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Speaker 5: that have been around a long time. Even their defensive coordinator,
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Speaker 5: you know, has been kind of grown up in the
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Speaker 5: Baltimore organization. I know he left a year to go
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Speaker 5: to Michigan, but he's back and and you know, coordinating
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Speaker 5: the defense, so he's seen a lot of football there
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Speaker 5: as well. And and it's no there's no surprise why
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Speaker 5: they're why they're top, you know, one of the top
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Speaker 5: defenses in the league.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, quite a matchup this week.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Dug Peterson with us to the Jaguars offense. Now,
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Speaker 3: and let's let's get into this running game for the
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Speaker 3: Jaguars team here and trying to get Yes, there's the
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Speaker 3: yard is just there for Travis et in for the season,
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Speaker 3: but the yards per.
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Speaker 2: Rush is down the list a little bit. How do
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Speaker 2: you improve that down the stretch?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it's it's interesting because I think we're
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Speaker 5: we're tenth in the league in attempts, but we're thirty
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Speaker 5: first or something, as you mentioned, in yards per carry.
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Speaker 5: Those two should align a little bit more, right. If
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Speaker 5: you're gonna run the ball as much as we have,
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Speaker 5: you should have better results, right, And so you know,
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Speaker 5: it's something that we look at as a staff and
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Speaker 5: we've got to make sure we're putting our best concepts together.
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Speaker 5: We're repeating the best concepts, right, So there's familiarity with
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Speaker 5: our offensive line. I know we've had some injury up front,
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Speaker 5: and there hasn't been a lot of consistency, you know,
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Speaker 5: particularly on the left side, and guys have been in
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Speaker 5: and out of the lineup and Ezra's new, you know,
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Speaker 5: and getting him caught up. But for me, it's just
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Speaker 5: a matter of let's make sure we're putting our guys
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Speaker 5: you know, in the right positions and helping them be
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Speaker 5: successful on the football field. And then it's just a mindset.
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Speaker 5: Running the ball sometimes is not pretty. It's more of
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Speaker 5: the physical aspect of it. The backs have got to
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Speaker 5: hit the right holes and things of that nature. But
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Speaker 5: again it's coaches and players working together and really demanding
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Speaker 5: sort of that physicality that you know, quite frankly, these
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Speaker 5: last couple of defenses have given us fits on.
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Speaker 2: And the health of your running backs. As you talked
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Speaker 2: about the health of your offensive line. I know Dearness
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Speaker 2: has had a knee and obviously etn has had the ribs.
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Speaker 2: Are they getting better because that's got to be a
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Speaker 2: big part of getting better as an offense running the ball.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is. That is a big part of it
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Speaker 5: as well. And yes, they are both getting healthy as
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Speaker 5: healthy as they can be obviously this time of year.
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Speaker 5: But that's another thing too, is making sure that we've
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Speaker 5: coached them up the right way to to to anticipate
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Speaker 5: where the hole is going to be and then just
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Speaker 5: continuing to have great vision. You know, both of them
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Speaker 5: are great backs, are good one cut guys. Dearanus is
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Speaker 5: probably a little more physical downhill type of a runner,
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Speaker 5: where TJ's a little bit of a slasher off tackle guy.
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Speaker 5: But you know, we got to get these two guys
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Speaker 5: going there. They're dynamic for us. And then we have
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Speaker 5: to incorporate Tank. I think Tank now this time of
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Speaker 5: year can can really help us in the run game
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Speaker 5: and take you know, as we say every week, but
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Speaker 5: really take a load off of those two as we
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Speaker 5: make our pushed here. You know, in the last month
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Speaker 5: of the season.
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Speaker 2: Part of the challenge of running the ball. You look
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Speaker 2: at the Baltimore Ravens defense. They got the big guy
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Speaker 2: up in the middle, Michael Pearson, and you got two
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Speaker 2: really good linebackers and Patrick Queen Roquan Smith. Is that
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Speaker 2: the best linebacker combination maybe that you're gonna face this year?
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Speaker 2: The inside guys.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I would agree. These two are probably the best
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Speaker 5: in in the National Football League right now. And you know,
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Speaker 5: we've we've played some really good defenses, good fronts, but
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Speaker 5: these two guys, I'll tell you this that their defensive line,
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Speaker 5: their front four front five. I mean, they base themselves
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Speaker 5: out of a three four personnel and they really keep
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Speaker 5: linemen off of their linebackers so they can just use
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Speaker 5: their athleticism and physicality to be downhill, to run sideline
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Speaker 5: to sideline, and they make a lot of plays. They
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Speaker 5: you know, you can see how why this defense is
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Speaker 5: really good because they anticipate so well. They know formations,
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Speaker 5: They understand what you're trying to do out of different
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Speaker 5: formations and where the back is and you know, and
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Speaker 5: things like that, but two really good, good athletes, you know,
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Speaker 5: playing linebacker who are also physical downhill guys.
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Speaker 2: I knows as a coach, you love players that have
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Speaker 2: been around, that you trust, that are dependable. And there's
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Speaker 2: other players that have been added to the mix recently
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Speaker 2: in Calvin Ridley. Okay, this is all part of a
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Speaker 2: process of working and building that trust with Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 2: Do you see the communication between those two guys and
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Speaker 2: those two guys improving to where that that chemistry can
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Speaker 2: get better because this is the time of year to
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Speaker 2: have it.
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Speaker 5: I do see it getting better, you know, And it's listen,
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Speaker 5: it's a work in progress. It's you know, again, as
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Speaker 5: as a coach is we just can't assume that guys know.
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Speaker 5: We got to make sure that they're prepared, and that
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Speaker 5: comes from us and making sure that our quarterback too,
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Speaker 5: is has understanding of what we're asking him, and then
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Speaker 5: he can communicate that with his receivers, particularly in this
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Speaker 5: case Calvin, and making sure that they're on the same page.
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Speaker 5: Because you know, I tell Calvin every week, you're you're
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Speaker 5: gonna be a you are a big part of this offense.
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Speaker 5: You're gonna continue to be a big part of this
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Speaker 5: offense the remainder of our season and and make big plays.
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Speaker 5: But but he and Trevor need to maintain that that
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Speaker 5: that chemistry and that consistency and being on the same page.
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Speaker 5: We missed a couple opportunities last week in Cleveland, and
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Speaker 5: those are the things we have to clean up as
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Speaker 5: we move forward.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson with us on the Doug Peterson Show.
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Speaker 3: Let's flip it around now to the Jaguars defense and
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Speaker 3: the matchup against Lamar Jackson, dual threat quarterback. Of course,
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Speaker 3: former MVP well communication key on defense as well. If
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Speaker 3: he gets out the gate, then look out. He can
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Speaker 3: score from anywhere on the field.
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Speaker 5: He can. He's real dangerous obviously, and and we know
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Speaker 5: what he can do running the football, and and you
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Speaker 5: know they they're gonna start everything in the run game.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: I think this year they've made a little bit more
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Speaker 5: of emphasis on him throwing from the pocket, and he's
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Speaker 5: done well. He's he and they he's got some guys
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Speaker 5: that can fight out roll on the outside. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 5: some speed and and with day Flowers, Odell Beckham's out there,
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Speaker 5: I mean, they got some guys that can roll and
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Speaker 5: and you know, so our defense is just can talk
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Speaker 5: about communication. You know, we've got to over over, you know, simplify.
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Speaker 5: But clarity has to be the most important thing this week.
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Speaker 5: And understanding that and and just you know, all eyes,
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Speaker 5: you know, all eyes in the quarterback. You know, you
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Speaker 5: got to understand again their formations. You know what they're
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Speaker 5: trying to get done, where the back is, where a
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Speaker 5: big number forty two is going to be, things of
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Speaker 5: that nature. And and then just you just got to
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Speaker 5: trust your instincts, right and and don't go chasing the plays.
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Speaker 5: We talk about it every week. Just make the ones
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Speaker 5: that come to you and and they will. But the
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Speaker 5: ball will roll back to you. If you're in your gap,
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Speaker 5: it'll roll right back to you. You make the play
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Speaker 5: same way in the secondary, you know, cover them up,
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Speaker 5: keep eyes on the quarterback, and you know, it takes
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Speaker 5: it takes all eleven on defense.
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Speaker 2: This week, I talk about a challenging game just because
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Speaker 2: of Lamar Jackson's running ability, because of all the red
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Speaker 2: option stuff that they have, and then his ability to
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Speaker 2: extend the play. I mean, is there a guy in
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Speaker 2: the league that is that that level of stressing a
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Speaker 2: defense in those two categories.
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Speaker 5: You know, there's there's really not. Obviously Pat Mahomes who
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Speaker 5: we played earlier in the year. You know, he can
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Speaker 5: extend plays and he does a nice job of throwing
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Speaker 5: the ball down the field. You know, he does that
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Speaker 5: kind of stuff. Obviously, you know, Lamar is right there
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Speaker 5: with him. But Lamar is better running the football, and
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Speaker 5: and he's got the speed element to you, and you know, yes,
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Speaker 5: he's gonna he's gonna get some plays you know on you.
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Speaker 5: But but it's how you how you minimize those opportunities.
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Speaker 5: And and really if you get a chance to tackle him,
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Speaker 5: you tackle him and get him on the ground. You know,
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Speaker 5: I thought last year playing them, our guys did it.
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Speaker 5: Did a decent job there, you know, for the most part.
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Speaker 5: But again it's, uh, it's a it's a dynamic, you know,
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Speaker 5: situation for our defense.
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Speaker 2: Again this week, did you do the chicken drill this week?
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Speaker 2: You remember the Rocky movie, the.
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Speaker 5: First one where chasing the chicken around. We need to,
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Speaker 5: we need to it feels that's what it feels. What
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Speaker 5: it feels like.
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson another name, and keep exactly the defense on
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Speaker 3: their toes for sure, all right, coach Final thought here
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Speaker 3: playoff chase this year, first place teams battling it out
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Speaker 3: in December on Sunday Night football. This is what this
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Speaker 3: is what you'll play everything for, right, games like this
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Speaker 3: in December.
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Speaker 5: It is And and again it goes back to what
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Speaker 5: I've been telling our football team, right, expect to be
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Speaker 5: in these games year in and year out, and embrace
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Speaker 5: these games, right because you know, let's not hide behind, uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, being average. Let's let's let's let's if we're
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Speaker 5: gonna hide behind anything, hide behind being number one. And
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Speaker 5: let's let's continue to push and get better each week.
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Speaker 5: And and yeah, two good football teams. It's a great uh,
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Speaker 5: great for the NFL, Great for Sunday Night Football. And
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Speaker 5: look forward to the matchup.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the time as always, coach, appreciate it. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us.
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Speaker 2: Where shopping is a pleasure. Interesting thoughts from Coach Peterson
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Speaker 2: on the communication buzzword this week and making that a
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Speaker 2: point of emphasis in the meeting room. But it's one
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Speaker 2: thing in the meeting room. You gotta go use it
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Speaker 2: on the game field on Sunday. You got to transfer
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Speaker 2: it over to the game field. And a lot of
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Speaker 2: times it sometimes can get lost between practice and game day.
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Speaker 2: But because a lot of times things change on game day.
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Speaker 2: You've got the crowd, You've got such situations that pop
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Speaker 2: up that change the game and change what you might
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Speaker 2: think of it. But either way that this defense has
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Speaker 2: got to find a way to communicate. This offense has
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Speaker 2: to find a way to be on the same page.
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Speaker 2: Because again, this is the time of year to start
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Speaker 2: finding a little bit of a role so that you
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Speaker 2: can go to the playoffs hot. And here's the reality.
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Speaker 2: What happens If you lose and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: you've got a couple of the division teams winning, okay,
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Speaker 2: namely the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts, you would
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Speaker 2: still have the division lead, correct because of tiebreakers, correct,
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Speaker 2: but the same exact record as you Because then then
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're looking at getting a little
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Speaker 2: bit tense, a little tighter in the remaining three games
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Speaker 2: Tennessee and Houston play this week. Is that right? Yes?
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Speaker 3: Okay, so Houston seven and six obviously, and the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: split the series with them. The Jaguars have a four
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Speaker 3: and one division record, Houston, if they win, would have
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Speaker 3: a two and two division record, so that would be
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Speaker 3: the tiebreaker. Jaguars would still be up top. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: then let's not even go there. I mean, go win
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Speaker 3: the go win the game. But it's entirely possible.
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Speaker 2: My point is that, look, you think you're kind of
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Speaker 2: getting a little nervous now about the way you're playing.
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Speaker 2: You know, you lose this one and all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden you're looking at zero room for error. Isn't this though,
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Speaker 2: what competing teams deal with every year. Yes, this kind
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Speaker 2: of thing, yeah, and the and the mature teams find
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Speaker 2: a way to work through it, okay, and to get
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Speaker 2: their performance better. And hopefully this team is mature enough
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Speaker 2: and is going to do that here in the remaining
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Speaker 2: four games. I mean, because look at look at the
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Speaker 2: playoff phrase. I mean, there you go. Okay, Raven's right
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Speaker 2: there at number one. They're the number one seed in
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Speaker 2: the conference right now, you know, and they're they're not
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Speaker 2: looking to give that up because they would put Kansas
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Speaker 2: City in very in a very different situation than a
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Speaker 2: year's past, which is having to go on the road
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Speaker 2: for the first time with Patrick Mahomes. You know, the
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Speaker 2: Jaguars end up staying at number four. But look at
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Speaker 2: all the teams are bunched up in the hunt there,
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Texans, the Broncos, the Bengals, the Buffalo Bills.
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Speaker 3: There's six teams with a seven and six record. Well,
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Speaker 3: here's the other thing.
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Speaker 2: If you look at those teams that are in the
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Speaker 2: hunt right there, the Texans, the Broncos, the Bengals, and
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Speaker 2: the Bills. Do you want to play any of those
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Speaker 2: guys in the playoffs. I mean they're good. I mean that.
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Speaker 2: I mean the Denver Broncos might be playing as good
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Speaker 2: a football as there is in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: And they were the laughing stock of the league, and
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Speaker 2: earlier in the season were terrible. They've now won six
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Speaker 2: of seven. Cincinnati Bengals, Jake Browning, I mean he's gotten
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Speaker 2: some footing Buffalo Bills with Josh Allen at quarterback, and
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Speaker 2: they're finding their groove. You know, this is a this
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Speaker 2: is a tough conference. Now. I almost wish you could
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Speaker 2: switch go to the NFC. Got to handle the business
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Speaker 2: and and move on. So the Pittsburgh Steelers, eh, Cleveland
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Speaker 2: Browns eh me. I fear in the Colts, eh. I
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Speaker 2: fear the teams that right now are on the outside
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Speaker 2: looking in more than those that are in the wildcard
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Speaker 2: position right now? Would you agree? But Brown's just beat
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Speaker 2: the Jakes, I know, went yeah on them. They just
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Speaker 2: won exactly. And if the Jaguars had not had those mistakes,
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Speaker 2: well yeah, if if some butts were candy and nuts,
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Speaker 2: I know what a talking I know. But my point
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Speaker 2: is is that JP look look at those teams in
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Speaker 2: the wildcard Okay, and then look at those teams in
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Speaker 2: the Hunt? Okay, who would you rather face? Okay, would
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Speaker 2: you rather as a group face the wild card teams
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Speaker 2: or the in the Hunt teams?
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Speaker 4: So?
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Speaker 2: Would would I rather face the brown Steelers and Colts
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Speaker 2: or is it collective Texans, Broncos, Bengals and Bills. Yes?
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Speaker 3: I think it's because you already beating the Colts twice,
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Speaker 3: already beat the Steelers, the Browns. To your point, Okay,
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Speaker 3: a few plays here or there, Okay, sure, Yeah, the
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Speaker 3: teams in the Hunt poward like striving to get back
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Speaker 3: into the Wildcard and they're gonna be rolling.
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Speaker 2: Maybe. I think some of these teams will play each
17:07
Speaker 2: other and knock them out of contention. That's how that's
17:09
Speaker 2: gonna work. But well, look here, here's my point here, Okay,
17:13
Speaker 2: C J. Stroud Russ Okay, uh, I'm not gonna go
17:18
Speaker 2: there with Jake Browning yet. Okay, he went there already,
17:21
Speaker 2: but he's played pretty good. And then Josh Allen. Look
17:23
Speaker 2: at the quarterbacks in the Wildcard category. Yeah, the fourth
17:27
Speaker 2: at Flacco Flaco, Okay, off the couch who's playing quarterback
17:31
Speaker 2: for the Steelers now Trubisky? Yeah, eah, big deal. And
17:35
Speaker 2: then and then Gardner Minshew. I mean the quarterbacks that
17:38
Speaker 2: are in the hunt. I think you fear them more.
17:41
Speaker 2: I don't say fear them, you respect them more than
17:44
Speaker 2: the ones that are in the wildcard, in my opinion.
17:46
Speaker 2: We've got plenty to get to a little bit later,
17:48
Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes or so, we'll hear from Devin mccordy
17:51
Speaker 2: of NBC Sports Analysts for Football Night in America. We
17:54
Speaker 2: caught up earlier today. We'll get his thoughts on where
17:57
Speaker 2: the Jaguars are without Christian Kirk in this offense and
18:01
Speaker 2: much more ahead back in a moment though, to get
18:04
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Speaker 1: J P.
18:36
Speaker 3: Shadrick with Jeff Loghim and the Ravens and the Jaguars
18:39
Speaker 3: coming up on Sunday Night Football, the Jaguars first appearance
18:42
Speaker 3: on a true Sunday Night Football NBC telecast since two
18:46
Speaker 3: thousand and eight.
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Speaker 2: Sure, been long into it was like twelve years from
18:52
Speaker 2: the last Monday Night Football game. Cor right now it's
18:54
Speaker 2: like fourteen years from the last Sunday Night Football game? Yeah,
18:58
Speaker 2: is that right? Whatever is on the years? Well longer
19:01
Speaker 2: than that? Fifteen years? Is it fifteen years?
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Speaker 4: Eight?
19:08
Speaker 2: Fourteen fifty? It was twenty twenty three, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's right. Fifteen years. Wow, that's amazing all the time. Hey,
19:16
Speaker 2: but enjoy It's gonna be a fantastic matchup the Ravens
19:18
Speaker 2: and the Jaguars and the Jags defense. They're gonna have
19:21
Speaker 2: their hands full. And Lamar Jackson is a big reason why.
19:25
Speaker 2: He is the leading rusher for the Ravens at quarterback,
19:29
Speaker 2: and he can throw it around and they've they've got
19:32
Speaker 2: a really powerful running game overall, not just Lamar, but
19:36
Speaker 2: they can get it done. He has rushed for over
19:39
Speaker 2: I think six hundred yards every year of his career,
19:44
Speaker 2: which is incredible. He's led the Ravens in rushing in
19:50
Speaker 2: each of the last five years, which is again amazing.
19:56
Speaker 2: You're talking about a guy that has twenty nine rushing
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Speaker 2: touchdowns in his career. How many did Fred Taylor have
20:05
Speaker 2: in the eighties, right, just out of curiosity, Yeah, as
20:08
Speaker 2: we're talking about a quarterback who is in his sixty
20:12
Speaker 2: year and he has twenty nine rushing touchdowns to his name.
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Speaker 2: Fred had sixty six Okay, career rushing touchdo Lamar Jackson
20:23
Speaker 2: is almost the halfway point Maurice was in the eighties
20:26
Speaker 2: Fred Taylor, which is amazing. I mean he's and what
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Speaker 2: is impressive about him and what why defenses are hard?
20:36
Speaker 2: It's very hard to defend him when you think about
20:40
Speaker 2: and this was explained to me years ago from one
20:43
Speaker 2: of the one of the great minds in football, and
20:47
Speaker 2: Gus Bradley, who defensive one of the great defensive minds
20:50
Speaker 2: in football, and he said, you know, think about it,
20:51
Speaker 2: Logs in the part of you got to count bodies. Okay,
20:55
Speaker 2: when you count bodies when you're talking about a read
20:57
Speaker 2: option situation, he goes, they gain an extra blocker. He goes,
21:01
Speaker 2: Now it may not be actually be a blocker, but
21:03
Speaker 2: you have another person that has to be responsible for
21:07
Speaker 2: the running back and the quarterback to now be possible
21:10
Speaker 2: ball carriers, and he goes, So you're eight man front
21:13
Speaker 2: if the quarterback is a running quarterback, he said, in reality,
21:17
Speaker 2: is only a seven man front because of the quarterback
21:22
Speaker 2: being a runner. And so from a number standpoint, it's
21:26
Speaker 2: hard to defend a guy who is a legitimate running threat.
21:29
Speaker 2: And now, look, if it's Joe Flacco running the Reid option,
21:33
Speaker 2: it's not an advantage to the Browns to run Joe
21:36
Speaker 2: Flacco read option. They may still do it just because
21:39
Speaker 2: that's in their playbook and they have it in for
21:42
Speaker 2: Dorian Thompson Robinson, but it's not like he scares a
21:47
Speaker 2: defense from that standpoint because the numbers, it doesn't help
21:50
Speaker 2: because Joe Flacko was not a legit runner and this
21:54
Speaker 2: guy is can stop and start on a dime, and
21:58
Speaker 2: he's a quarterback. And of course the quarterback are afforded
22:00
Speaker 2: a lot of protections and he takes advantage of that
22:04
Speaker 2: at times where if all of a sudden he's looking
22:06
Speaker 2: like he's gonna go out of bounds, he knows you're
22:09
Speaker 2: not gonna whack him, so he's not going to stay
22:11
Speaker 2: in bounds for a few more yards I asked Andrew
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Speaker 2: wingerd in the locker room this week, you know, as
22:16
Speaker 2: a safety, when you see Lamar Jackson kind of break
22:19
Speaker 2: through and he's in the clear, one on one against you,
22:22
Speaker 2: what do you think? And he said, oh boy, oh
22:25
Speaker 2: blank is what he said. So it's one of those
22:28
Speaker 2: you just got to kind of do the best you
22:30
Speaker 2: can and hope the cavalry arrives with you. Yeah, that's
22:33
Speaker 2: and that's real. I mean that, you know, I mentioned
22:36
Speaker 2: the chicken drill with Doug right, I mean, that's kind
22:39
Speaker 2: of what it feels like sometimes, you know, trying to
22:41
Speaker 2: chase the chicken, but there's not a fence for a
22:45
Speaker 2: corral to keep the chicken in. It's a much bigger
22:48
Speaker 2: corral with Lamar Jackson. I mean, he's that good Jackson. Fans,
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Speaker 2: communication coming up. Yeah yeah, but when we come back, Uh,
23:13
Speaker 2: the Ravens offense has the new coordinator that we talked
23:17
Speaker 2: about a little while ago, Todd Munkin. They've got a
23:20
Speaker 2: little attitude about okay, And when we come back, we're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about the first play that the Ravens
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Speaker 2: ran against the Rams. Okay, because they're not afraid to
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Speaker 2: send a message okay to an opponent on a first play,
23:39
Speaker 2: and they sent a big one to the Rams last
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Speaker 2: week on the first play.
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Speaker 3: We are about to find out what that is. In
23:45
Speaker 3: mere moments, It's The Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: Radio Network.
23:51
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
23:56
Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida Food
23:59
Speaker 3: Taste Better when It's Grown Closer to Home, JP Shadwick,
24:02
Speaker 3: Jeff Logoman or thanks to head coach Doug Peterson joining
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Speaker 3: us in the opening ten fifteen minutes or so of
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Speaker 3: the program each and every week and coming up, oh
24:13
Speaker 3: in about five to ten minutes, it's Devin mccordy Football
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Speaker 3: Night in America.
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Speaker 2: Analyst. Is he still playing? No, He retired after last season.
24:22
Speaker 2: He had a long career. He had a long career
24:24
Speaker 2: and a successful career. Three Super Bowl wins, good for him.
24:28
Speaker 2: He had six tackles, in the AFC Championship game against
24:31
Speaker 2: the Jaguars after the seventeen season. He's got a brother twin,
24:36
Speaker 2: brother twin. They're both in media. Is his brothers not
24:40
Speaker 2: playing anymore either? Think they're both out okay? Because they
24:42
Speaker 2: played together at the end of New England.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, New England, and that's when they kind of started
24:46
Speaker 3: doing their own kind of podcast thing, I think for
24:48
Speaker 3: a couple of years at the end, and good for them.
24:51
Speaker 3: It has turned quickly to a media career. He told
24:54
Speaker 3: me today that smart guy. My body feels a whole
24:56
Speaker 3: lot better this year for some reason. It's like, well, yeah,
24:58
Speaker 3: you're not yeah, not out there anymore. Hey, Ravens Rams
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Speaker 3: game last week and sending a message with some early
25:07
Speaker 3: play the Ravens.
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Speaker 2: So Ravens offensive first play of the game. If you're
25:13
Speaker 2: getting ready to face the Rams, what's the one guy
25:17
Speaker 2: that you know is the focal point of energy, the
25:23
Speaker 2: guy you got a block for the Rams, That big
25:25
Speaker 2: fella in the middle that wears number ninety nine. Correct
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald. And he's not as big as a lot
25:30
Speaker 2: of others, but he plays bigger than most. I wouldn't
25:33
Speaker 2: tell him that he's a stud, Okay, well, Aaron Donald
25:38
Speaker 2: is lined up on the first play and the Ravens
25:40
Speaker 2: come out and they essentially run a trap or a
25:46
Speaker 2: wham right at Aaron Donald and it's Patrick Ricard, the
25:50
Speaker 2: full back that cuts him coming from outside from the
25:55
Speaker 2: opposite side of the field, in motion behind the line
25:59
Speaker 2: and scrimmage. On the snap of the ball, they fake
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald the lineman go up the field, Patrick Riccard
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Speaker 2: goes and cuts him right down low legal because it's
26:10
Speaker 2: it can't do that outside and that is totally sending
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Speaker 2: a message. I'd say that, hey, you're not going to
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Speaker 2: be the one that controls and dominates this game. And
26:21
Speaker 2: they went right at him the first play to send
26:24
Speaker 2: a message. That's Todd Munkin. That's the Todd Munkin and
26:28
Speaker 2: that I know this is a message from Monkin. So
26:31
Speaker 2: it will be interesting to see if they want to
26:33
Speaker 2: send a message on the first play of the game
26:36
Speaker 2: against how would you do that? Like, who would you like?
26:39
Speaker 2: Who's the Jaguars best player? Right now? There you go? Okay,
26:43
Speaker 2: head on a swivel, put Patrick Ricard after him. Oh boy,
26:47
Speaker 2: you know, some kind of a zone cutback and have
26:51
Speaker 2: Recard come and cut Josh Allen Low, I mean something
26:55
Speaker 2: of that nature. And now Aaron Donald is a very
26:59
Speaker 2: special player. Yeah, and he's been an incredibly special player
27:03
Speaker 2: for many years. This guy is going into the Hall
27:06
Speaker 2: of Fame on roller skates and does Josh Allen warrant
27:11
Speaker 2: that same kind of respect message being sent? I don't know.
27:16
Speaker 2: But it was interesting to watch that first play last
27:19
Speaker 2: week because I went, m h, I know what that's about.
27:21
Speaker 2: That's sending a message. Message work out. It was a battle. Now.
27:27
Speaker 2: They did a pretty good job on Aaron Donald. The
27:29
Speaker 2: two guards for the Baltimore Ravens, which the one guard's
27:33
Speaker 2: been around forever in Zeitler, he's a good player, and
27:37
Speaker 2: the left guard, John Simpson, I've watched a little bit,
27:41
Speaker 2: but he's still a young player. He did a really
27:45
Speaker 2: good job of matching the strength of Aaron Donald, which
27:49
Speaker 2: was surprising. So who's the strongest Jaguars defensive tackle? Big Roy? Right? Sure?
27:55
Speaker 2: When you think about Big Roy, Big Roy will have
27:57
Speaker 2: his hands full going up against Simpson because he's a
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Speaker 2: strong dude as well.
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Speaker 3: We're back in a moment Devin mccorty joining us from
28:06
Speaker 3: Football Night in America with NBC Sports Sunday Night football
28:09
Speaker 3: this week for the Ravens and the Jaguars, and this
28:12
Speaker 3: is the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
28:20
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now and.
28:24
Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida Food
28:27
Speaker 3: tastes better when it's grown closer to home. The Jaguars
28:30
Speaker 3: on Sunday Night Football this week on NBC for the
28:33
Speaker 3: first time since two thousand and eight. Football Night in
28:36
Speaker 3: America is the show that precedes the game broadcast and
28:40
Speaker 3: former cornerback Devin mccorty is now an analyst for NBC Sports.
28:45
Speaker 3: He retired after last season longtime safety for the New
28:48
Speaker 3: England Patriots, And we talked about this Jaguars offense without
28:53
Speaker 3: Christian Kirk and there are still options for offensive coordinator
28:57
Speaker 3: Press Taylor and head coach Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean I played against Doug Peterson in seventeen and
29:04
Speaker 6: that Super Bowl against you know, Philadelphia, and it was
29:07
Speaker 6: the same kind of thing.
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Speaker 5: You know.
29:09
Speaker 4: It was Zach Ertz at.
29:10
Speaker 6: Tight end, it was Ashawn Jeffrey our receiver, it was
29:13
Speaker 6: Nelson Aguilar receiver, it was Tory Smith. It was like
29:17
Speaker 6: Garret Blunt or j Gie or Clement, Like they just
29:20
Speaker 6: had all of these different guys who if you step
29:24
Speaker 6: back and somebody said, hey, at all of these different positions,
29:28
Speaker 6: pick your top three guys, nobody probably would pick any
29:31
Speaker 6: of those guys. But when you put it together and
29:34
Speaker 6: you have to go out there and play as a defense,
29:36
Speaker 6: and you turn on the film, you're like, hmm, like
29:39
Speaker 6: this is like these guys are really getting after it.
29:41
Speaker 6: Evan Ingram's a problem at tight end and speed, his
29:44
Speaker 6: athletic ability, like who guards him? Safety, linebacker corn Like
29:49
Speaker 6: it's a tough matchup. And you start to look at
29:51
Speaker 6: that and I think Jacksonvill's done an awesome job. Like
29:54
Speaker 6: I watched the Cincinnati game and the first two drives,
29:58
Speaker 6: everybody was getting to touch. Evan ing got it, Deeranis
30:01
Speaker 6: Johnson got it, atn got it, they Jones Christian like
30:04
Speaker 6: everybody touched the ball. So now when you get back
30:07
Speaker 6: to the sideline of like, all right, this is their attack,
30:09
Speaker 6: this is what we're doing, it's like a coach not it.
30:13
Speaker 6: But they also threw it to him a coach. They
30:14
Speaker 6: also put him in this spot. So like when you
30:17
Speaker 6: do that, I think that's what Doug Peterson does really well,
30:20
Speaker 6: and now it's trying to figure out, right, is Parker
30:23
Speaker 6: Washington going to be a guy where we can say hey,
30:25
Speaker 6: go step and be all of Christian kirkch roles or
30:28
Speaker 6: is he a guy now that they have to move
30:30
Speaker 6: guys around and say all right, we want to put
30:32
Speaker 6: you here. Put it like that's what they're going to
30:34
Speaker 6: have to figure out what they think the best kind
30:37
Speaker 6: of group or positions each guy should be in going forward.
30:42
Speaker 4: That isn't always easy to do after you build.
30:45
Speaker 6: Something like that, to just know exactly what you know,
30:48
Speaker 6: what pieces.
30:49
Speaker 4: Of a puzzle on where they should be.
30:50
Speaker 6: And I think that's what Doug Peterson's figuring out now.
30:53
Speaker 2: Devin mccordy with us NBC Sports Football Night in America
30:56
Speaker 2: Ravens Jaguars on Sunday Night Football this week. Or defense
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Speaker 2: has really prided itself on stopping the run for the
31:04
Speaker 2: most of the season. They've been really good in that
31:06
Speaker 2: department and taking the ball away, and they did that
31:09
Speaker 2: again last week. They're tied for first in the league
31:11
Speaker 2: in takeaways. But they gave up some big play touchdowns
31:14
Speaker 2: last week forty one yarder, thirty four yarder, a thirty
31:18
Speaker 2: one yarder, missed assignments or lack of communication, which has
31:22
Speaker 2: been the buzzword this week around here on both sides
31:24
Speaker 2: of the ball. How concerning is that communication thing in
31:28
Speaker 2: week fifteen? I mean it feels like that should have
31:31
Speaker 2: been taken care of in like week five. Is that
31:34
Speaker 2: a problem for a defense this late?
31:36
Speaker 4: I mean it is like you can't say that it's not.
31:40
Speaker 6: And I think when I watched them, you know, obviously
31:43
Speaker 6: Calwell comes under that, Todd Bowles.
31:45
Speaker 4: Aggressive, different blitz packages.
31:47
Speaker 6: I remember talking to Logan Ryan when he went to
31:50
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay and he was like, man, they have a
31:52
Speaker 6: lot of defense, Like there's a lot of different things
31:55
Speaker 6: and adjustments you can do, and when.
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Speaker 4: You have that, it does makes it harder to communicate.
32:01
Speaker 6: It's a weekend and week out different thing that you
32:04
Speaker 6: have to communicate because when you do a lot, depending
32:07
Speaker 6: on who you play, they could also do a lot,
32:10
Speaker 6: or they could do less, or they could do this
32:11
Speaker 6: different than that.
32:12
Speaker 4: So you always have to communicate.
32:14
Speaker 6: And I think when I watch them, they do they
32:17
Speaker 6: kind of what we call on defense, we just to
32:19
Speaker 6: call a spin the wheel, like you're not gonna get
32:21
Speaker 6: this team that, you know. I think some teams we
32:23
Speaker 6: talk about like the Seattle three, Like that cover three,
32:26
Speaker 6: you're gonna get it all the time, or you're gonna
32:28
Speaker 6: get man to man all the time. Like when I
32:30
Speaker 6: turn on Jacksonville, you might get too safeties high in
32:33
Speaker 6: a cover two, or you might get two safeties high
32:35
Speaker 6: and the cover four you might get you know, five
32:38
Speaker 6: man pressure, you might get six man pressure. You might
32:41
Speaker 6: see the corner go, you might see this. Like they
32:43
Speaker 6: do a lot of different things, and when you do that,
32:45
Speaker 6: the communication has.
32:47
Speaker 4: To always have a certain standard. No matter who's in
32:50
Speaker 4: the game. We always have to hit this standard.
32:52
Speaker 6: When all of our guys are in there and our
32:54
Speaker 6: top communicators get together, all right, we can raise that bar.
32:57
Speaker 4: But I think last week they hit.
32:58
Speaker 6: A guy like Joe Flacco, who everything that you're doing,
33:04
Speaker 6: he's seen it before, he knows what's coming. So I thought,
33:07
Speaker 6: I think they did as good of a job of
33:09
Speaker 6: disguising some things. So when they did come or they
33:12
Speaker 6: did do different things, he knew exactly where he wanted
33:15
Speaker 6: to go.
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Speaker 3: Devin mccordy with us final thought here and mentioning Lamar
33:20
Speaker 3: new play caller this year in Baltimore, how different is
33:24
Speaker 3: Lamar's game overall this year than in the past, and
33:27
Speaker 3: obviously still effective on both ways running and throwing the football.
33:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the early part's career, I think he
33:34
Speaker 6: took a lot of the flat for the way the
33:37
Speaker 6: offense was built.
33:38
Speaker 4: It was always like, he can't do this, he can't
33:41
Speaker 4: do that, and it was kind of like, well, we don't.
33:43
Speaker 6: Know, like it's not his decision to be in here
33:46
Speaker 6: and a running these different plays and having an offensive
33:50
Speaker 6: line that was kind of built and I don't want
33:52
Speaker 6: to say.
33:53
Speaker 4: Like Navy football and a triple option.
33:55
Speaker 6: But it was kind of built like these road grading
33:58
Speaker 6: offensive lineman who could fi off the ball.
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Speaker 4: They could do all that.
34:01
Speaker 6: But anytime they got behind, like their strength as an
34:04
Speaker 6: offensive line wasn't dropping back and pass protecting and passing
34:08
Speaker 6: off game like.
34:09
Speaker 4: They struggled with those things. So because of.
34:12
Speaker 6: That, they had a lot of all, you know, three
34:13
Speaker 6: step drops like quick slams, quick outs, hitch outs, stop
34:17
Speaker 6: right over the ball, like it was all very basic.
34:20
Speaker 6: And I was always saying that to people like, well,
34:22
Speaker 6: we don't know if Lamar Jackson can be a guy
34:25
Speaker 6: who stays in the pocket and throws the ball outfield,
34:27
Speaker 6: and we're finding out this year. He can do that,
34:29
Speaker 6: and he can do that, and then when all that,
34:31
Speaker 6: when all else fails, like you turn on the Rams game,
34:34
Speaker 6: it's it was raining. The field conditions were poor, not
34:37
Speaker 6: for number eight. He was running, cutting, juking, making plays.
34:41
Speaker 6: So he's the guy that he's always been. You don't
34:45
Speaker 6: really want to you don't really want.
34:46
Speaker 4: To play against him. As a defense.
34:47
Speaker 6: It's very similar to when I was in the league
34:50
Speaker 6: playing against Cam Newton. You can say whatever you want
34:52
Speaker 6: about what he couldn't do and this, and as a defense,
34:55
Speaker 6: it wasn't that enjoyable trying to stop a guy like him,
34:58
Speaker 6: because yes, he wasn't Peyton Man and he wasn't Tom
35:01
Speaker 6: Brady and Drew Brees, but he was a tank and
35:04
Speaker 6: when he ran you you were like, how are we
35:06
Speaker 6: gonna get this guy down?
35:07
Speaker 4: And Lamar Jacksons a guy. When he runs, you're like,
35:10
Speaker 4: how are we gonna get a hand on him?
35:12
Speaker 6: And then like the last play that he is a
35:14
Speaker 6: Flowers on in a touchdown before over, like he moves up,
35:19
Speaker 6: he moves back, he slides, and then when he sees
35:21
Speaker 6: a Flowers just like that, the ball flings from his
35:24
Speaker 6: wrist like in his hand and it's gone as a touchdown,
35:27
Speaker 6: Like that's so hard to stop. So hey, Jacksonville Defense,
35:30
Speaker 6: I'm happy I don't have to do that anymore.
35:32
Speaker 4: And good luck going out there Sunday Night.
35:37
Speaker 3: There you have it, Devin mccordy from NBC Sports Football
35:41
Speaker 3: Night in America. In the full conversation coming soon in
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 3: Shadwick Jeff Logman from Monday Studios at the Miller Electric
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Speaker 3: Center in Jacksonville. Ahead of week fifteen Sunday Night Football,
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Speaker 3: the Ravens and the Jaguars, a battle of division leaders
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Speaker 3: under the lights the Teal Lights, by the way, The
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Speaker 3: Light Show will be back this week there'll be some
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Speaker 3: different instructions in your cup holder if you're coming to
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Speaker 3: the stadium, so follow those and be in your seat
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Speaker 3: a round ten till eight because eight twenty is the
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Speaker 3: kickoff time this week.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's hope for good weather. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: know the weather's a little iffy right now for Sunday,
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Speaker 2: but hopefully it's gonna end up being a great night
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Speaker 2: for football. No rain or at least you know, manageable
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Speaker 2: and we'll see what happened. But still got some time
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Speaker 2: to make the forecast better. Yeah, let's put in a
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Speaker 2: good word there for that. That'd be nice. Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 2: against Lamar Jackson Premier quarterback matchup, Well, it's a Premier
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Speaker 2: quarterback matchup, but I also think that this is also
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Speaker 2: a great matchup of Super Bowl winning coaches. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to kind of miss that aspect of it too,
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Speaker 2: because you're talking about two great coaches that have been
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Speaker 2: there and have done that to each have a Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl win and obviously Super Bowl aspirations for this year.
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Speaker 2: But this is a great matchup of minds in the
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Speaker 2: battle of the coaching staff. Because the one thing I
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Speaker 2: think that's been impressive about John Harball is how consistent
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Speaker 2: he's been as far as winning, and he's done it
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Speaker 2: with a lot of different coordinators, from offensive coordinators the
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Speaker 2: defensive coordinators, he's been able to win. And Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 2: I think has been impressive with what he's assembled with
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Speaker 2: his coaching staff. So this is going to be a
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Speaker 2: battle of the mind a little bit too, you know.
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Speaker 2: And and and the battle of two great players and
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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson and Trevor Lawrence. You'll wait for it. It's
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Speaker 2: gonna be such a fun game. And that's what the
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Speaker 2: Jaguars can just play better overall, and they still haven't
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Speaker 2: had that complete all three phases, on all cylinders game.
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Speaker 2: It feels like it's going to be a challenge for
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars offensively, you know. And I think it's imperative
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Speaker 2: that you come out with a fast start. And the
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Speaker 2: reason why is that after you had some miscommunications last week,
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Speaker 2: if you come out and you have some miscommunications early
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Speaker 2: in this ball game or you have lack of success,
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Speaker 2: what does that do to build momentum for you in
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Speaker 2: the game or are you going to have that that mindset? Ah,
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Speaker 2: and we're doing it again. You know, if you come
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Speaker 2: out and you start fast. It's go, okay, let's go.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're finding our stride where we've got a rhythm. Okay,
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Speaker 2: we're communicating, we're making sure that we're not gonna make
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Speaker 2: the mistakes. So I think a start is gonna be
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Speaker 2: a fast start is gonna be imperative for this team.
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Speaker 2: Back in a moment and we'll get our final thoughts
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Speaker 2: ahead of the Ravens Jaguars match up. Bootleggers Get Ready.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida Food
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Speaker 3: Tastes Better when It's grown Closer to Home, JP, Shadwick,
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Speaker 3: Jeff Vlogaman, head coach Doug Peterson in the opening segment
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Speaker 3: each and every Thursday, Devin.
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Speaker 2: Mccordy from NBC Sports with us as well. The full
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Speaker 2: conversation with him coming up later this weekend. We're great
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Speaker 2: perspective he had, by the way, I love listening to him. Oh,
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Speaker 2: he's fantastic.
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Speaker 3: And it's his first year as an analyst, right after
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Speaker 3: leaving the NFL as a player, and he and his
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Speaker 3: brother well on their way to big things.
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Speaker 2: They're both in the industry. We're talking about this Ravens
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Speaker 2: offense and the way they play. They run the ball.
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Speaker 3: They've gone over one hundred yards rushing as a team
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Speaker 3: now in twenty nine straight games, longest active streak and
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Speaker 3: the fifth longest in the Super Bowl era. The record
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Speaker 3: is forty three. By the way, two different times.
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Speaker 2: Who had the forty three by the Ravens. Yeah, it
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Speaker 2: would have been in the eighteen to twenty one era,
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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen to and then the Steelers in the late seventies,
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Speaker 2: all right at forty three, which back back then it
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Speaker 2: was a rushing league. Run the ball isn't as much
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Speaker 2: of a passing league. But they run the ball because
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Speaker 2: they a lot of times can have the lead and
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Speaker 2: run the ball too well. And they've got a running quarterback.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's if you look at the history of
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Speaker 2: the NFL, the great rushing team have all seemed to
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Speaker 2: have had rushing quarterbacks. Again, that goes to the count
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Speaker 2: thing that we talked about, and that you're trying to outnumber, Okay,
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Speaker 2: an offense with a defense as far as getting numbers
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Speaker 2: in the box, and when you have running quarterback, it's
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Speaker 2: hard to do that because you get an extra blocker
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Speaker 2: because the quarterback is a legit runner, and they get
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Speaker 2: it done early and they get on top of teams
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Speaker 2: and that's the way they play. Yeah, the stat and
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Speaker 2: you know I mentioned before the break about the need
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Speaker 2: for a fast start in this ball game. One just
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Speaker 2: because you know, to give yourself some positive thoughts after
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Speaker 2: having some disappointment in the last two games. Also to
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Speaker 2: build momentum at home, okay, which you haven't been very good.
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Speaker 2: You've only won two games at EverBank Stadium. But also
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Speaker 2: because the Ravens are used to playing on top. You
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Speaker 2: look at them season long. They have literally only trailed
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Speaker 2: for a little more than five quarters of the entire season.
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Speaker 2: So put them in a position that they're maybe unaccustomed to,
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Speaker 2: and that is trailing instead of leading. Take them out
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Speaker 2: of that front runner roll a little bit out of
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Speaker 2: their comfort zone of having the ability to stay with
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Speaker 2: the run. If you force them to throw the ball
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Speaker 2: more than they want to. That puts them in a
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Speaker 2: position they don't want to be in. But how do
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Speaker 2: you do that? You got to have early success and
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Speaker 2: score points early, you know, And has the Jaguars offense
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Speaker 2: been able to do that this year? Jump out to
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Speaker 2: a fourteen to nothing lead or ten nothing lead. It's
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Speaker 2: not easy to do, especially when you're facing the second
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Speaker 2: best defense in the National Football League, But that would
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Speaker 2: be a goal. All games this time of year seem
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Speaker 2: to be big, and certainly the case around the NFL.
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Speaker 2: This weekend is the first slate of Saturday games as well,
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Speaker 2: and featuring six winning teams. Yeah, and well, tonight you
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Speaker 2: got the Chargers at the Raiders. These are not winning
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Speaker 2: team game, but it's still an NFL game. I'll watch it.
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Speaker 2: And then on Saturday at one o'clock, he got Vikings
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Speaker 2: at Cincinnati or at the Bengals. And then at the
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Speaker 2: four point thirty slot, you got Pittsburgh at Andy, and
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Speaker 2: then JP the game that you're gonna be calling, which
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Speaker 2: is Denver at the Detroit Lions on Saturday night at
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Speaker 2: eight fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Great game, that's a great game. You got Broncos are
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Speaker 3: hot right now. The Lions are looking for their first
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Speaker 3: Division titles since ninety three. They can't clinch it. They
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Speaker 3: could clinch a playoff Berth. There's like sixteen scenarios where
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Speaker 3: they could clinch a playoff Berth after the weekends done.
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Speaker 3: But that matchup is going to be great because Russell
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Speaker 3: and the Broncos are playing well, playing well.
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Speaker 2: And for you, good for you. You're working with Mike Golickham,
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Speaker 2: who is I think one of the best analysts in
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Speaker 2: the business. Love listening to him, Love listening to Mike
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Speaker 2: and Mike for a long period of time, and love
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Speaker 2: to listen to his perspective. And also he's a great guy,
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Speaker 2: good friend, and and love Mike. You know what, You're
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Speaker 2: one of the best analysts in the business. Live well,
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Speaker 2: Mike's on the national level. I'm very happy with where
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Speaker 2: I'm at. But good for you because you'll enjoy working
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Speaker 2: with Mike. Appreciate it. Log that's Jeff Logerman. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 3: Shadrick And thanks to David Schojoe Fortune, Oh, Brent Reaver,
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Speaker 3: and thanks to you for listening. The Jaguars and the
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Speaker 3: Ravens coming up this Sunday on Sunday Night Football This
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Speaker 3: is the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio network.