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Jags Drive Time: Friday, October 4 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. Chris such It
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Speaker 1: picks up the block Taper, Jaguars of Fitness, Steelers Believable,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars did Jack Jack Warris? Did you? Jaguars Drive Time?
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Speaker 1: Brian Sex steps to John O. Ashley. Jaguars Drive Time
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Good morning, Happy Friday. Welcome to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time. We start every Friday morning with coffee with
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Speaker 1: the coach. With head coach dun Brown. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: our thing now that we get a little talk about
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Speaker 1: coffee before the show starts. We would know more about
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Speaker 1: your coffee habits now than I think anyone probably in
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Speaker 1: this whole stadium, at least your fruit fruit guy, right,
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Speaker 1: you put the latte, you put the first of all.
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Speaker 1: I just it's mostly you know what's interesting, it's it's
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Speaker 1: mostly during the season. You know, I don't um really
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Speaker 1: in they all season, I really don't. Don't don't rely
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Speaker 1: on it. I guess it's more like a pace bowl
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Speaker 1: effect that the caffeine will get me going a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But uh no, I do and I enjoy it, but
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Speaker 1: I stopped. I'm not a afternoon or evening I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it really stops in the morning and some of
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Speaker 1: your coaches as soon or evening coffee guys. Yeah, Mike
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Speaker 1: Mallory's uh, I mean he's a machine. I mean he
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Speaker 1: has everywhere. Yeah, yeah, I mean he has it ready.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's usually the first one in and and
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's ready to go, and he puts
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Speaker 1: it in and then you know, and then once it's done,
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Speaker 1: it's all ready to go again. So he actually fills
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Speaker 1: it up, you know what I'm saying. And so he's
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Speaker 1: at least good for two pots right off the bat
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Speaker 1: in the morning. He never casually walks anywhere. No, he's great. Great.
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Speaker 1: I've been with molt you know, he was with me
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Speaker 1: at New Orleans and uh, he just doesn't outstanding job.
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Speaker 1: So we saw you on Good Morning Football yesterday. You
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Speaker 1: turned it on. You brought it on Good Morning Football.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, I think so. I think
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Speaker 1: so I great energy, what he's saying, I don't have
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Speaker 1: energy when I do our shows. You I can tell
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Speaker 1: you were excited and happy to be on there, like
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Speaker 1: that's I'm excited about the team. I think. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're excited about the team, you know where they
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Speaker 1: are and the way they're and I and I told
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Speaker 1: that to the team just now, you know, the way
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Speaker 1: they've been attentive a meeting, the way they've gone about
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Speaker 1: their business on the field, and really working together. And
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Speaker 1: I think I think those are the things that you
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Speaker 1: look as a coach, and I think that's what gets
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Speaker 1: you excited. When when you don't see that and you're
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Speaker 1: you're pushing for that, you're trying to find um, you know,
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Speaker 1: answers or you know, to our solutions to those issues.
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Speaker 1: You know, then it gets kind of tough and you
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Speaker 1: become you know, lady life focus. But you know, right now,
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Speaker 1: I feel good about the way we practice, and now
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Speaker 1: it's now it's about performance, and that's what you want
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Speaker 1: to do. You want to you want to make it
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Speaker 1: to the performance, meaning that you know, you know, you've
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Speaker 1: done everything you know during the week and then you
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Speaker 1: get to a game on Sunday and and then it's
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Speaker 1: all going to be and how you perform in that game.
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Speaker 1: These really impressed me. Since the end of the first
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Speaker 1: quarter in Houston, I thought your team has played incredibly
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Speaker 1: mentally tough right the circumstances and and and getting back
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Speaker 1: to the game and then driving through to the end
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Speaker 1: it didn't end the way you wanted to, but then
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Speaker 1: falling behind against the Broncos last week. That mental toughness
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Speaker 1: has just been eleven straight quarters, coach, and maybe he's
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Speaker 1: been longer than that, but your thought on how your
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Speaker 1: team has has been resilient, to use John's word, I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of a lot of things go
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Speaker 1: into that, I think, but probably the most important thing
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Speaker 1: is you know the guys that are that are in
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Speaker 1: that locker room, the players, and the players that are
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Speaker 1: in that huddle, and you know the units that are
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Speaker 1: playing during the game of three units and having a
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Speaker 1: um a competence or trust or belief, love, whatever whatever
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Speaker 1: word you know you want to use for it. UM,
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Speaker 1: you know, with each other, knowing that hey listen, UM,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay. Things might not have gone this way. UM.
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Speaker 1: You know, let's not let's not you know, panic for
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Speaker 1: lack of a better word, UM, and let's go out
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Speaker 1: there because we know we have the ability to get
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Speaker 1: ourselves either back in the game or you know, have
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Speaker 1: the ability to extend a lead in the game. So
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Speaker 1: a lot of that comes from really, it really comes
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Speaker 1: from the players. I'd like to be able to say, yeah, hey,
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Speaker 1: we as coaches do that and still that you know,
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Speaker 1: we talk about it, but unless you truly have that
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Speaker 1: inner belief. Um, and I think that's where where our
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Speaker 1: guys are right now. Do you get a sense that
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Speaker 1: a team is going to have that or that you're
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Speaker 1: gonna like a team uh in the preseason or do
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Speaker 1: you have to see it grow? I think it grows, John,
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Speaker 1: I think it grows because you know, it's still you know,
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Speaker 1: the one thing about you know, professional football in NFL,
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Speaker 1: it's a result oriented business and you know, you if
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Speaker 1: you're not getting those results, it's very difficult to keep
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Speaker 1: faith or to keep pushing. So when you start to
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Speaker 1: see it or you you know it's getting close, obviously
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Speaker 1: as coaches you point that out, but it's still it's
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Speaker 1: still gonna take you know, the players, the players to
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Speaker 1: make plays to be able to to get that. So, um,
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Speaker 1: you know that that that has started and um, you
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Speaker 1: know and that that's very contagious. So I was just
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Speaker 1: speak engagement this morning, and you guys have probably gotten
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Speaker 1: this just from people talking and and the offensive line coach.
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Speaker 1: Everyone wants to know are they gonna be okay. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know whether it's the five sacks last
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Speaker 1: week or the seven penalties, but I say, look at
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Speaker 1: them individually and watched you want Taylor against UM J J.
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Speaker 1: Watt in Houston, and and look at the job that
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Speaker 1: Brandon Linder does every week. Give us your assessment of
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Speaker 1: where this group is so that people have an understanding
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Speaker 1: of where they're going. Sure, I think this group is growing.
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Speaker 1: I feel really good about UM. You know where they're going.
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Speaker 1: Obviously we want them to get there faster than than
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Speaker 1: what's going on now. Uh. You know we've addressed you know,
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Speaker 1: we talked about the penalties UM quite a bit and
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Speaker 1: a lot of times with that it's not you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not discipline. And people look at the holding penalties
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Speaker 1: as lack of discipline, and you know that's not it.
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Speaker 1: It's really we as coaches have to do a better
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Speaker 1: job of putting our players in better position UM to
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Speaker 1: be able to make those blocks. Because you know, from
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Speaker 1: my experience, which you know, I played the position, coach
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Speaker 1: the position and been around it my whole entire life.
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Speaker 1: You know those types. You know, penalties occur because you're
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Speaker 1: out of holding. Penalties occur because you're out of position.
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Speaker 1: No one literally goes in there and says, hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go tackle this guy, I'm gonna put my arms
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Speaker 1: around him, or anything like that. So, you know, that's
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Speaker 1: one of the things we've we've been we talked about
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Speaker 1: with the with the line. We know it's something that
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Speaker 1: you know, it's hurt us a bit in the red
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Speaker 1: zone where um, you know, it's hurt our red zone
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Speaker 1: efficiency as far as touchdown percentage. Um, you know, with
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Speaker 1: those types of penalties that we've had in there, you know,
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Speaker 1: whether it be the line or or anyone else on
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Speaker 1: the offense. So we keep addressing it, we keep you know,
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Speaker 1: coaching it, and um, you know, I think at first
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Speaker 1: we've got to do a better job of putting him
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Speaker 1: in in in better position. How impressed are you with
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Speaker 1: not only Leonard on the field, but just what he's
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Speaker 1: done training camp to now in terms of preparation, in
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Speaker 1: terms of you know, maybe just getting things right. I
7:14
Speaker 1: look at it a couple of different ways. I think
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Speaker 1: that you know, he's he's he's you know, as far
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Speaker 1: as his conditioning, you know, and being able to play, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's been outstanding. He's done an excellent job there.
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Speaker 1: I believe the next thing that comes into play is, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think you know, it was very challenging. UM.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure for him as it well was for all
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Speaker 1: of us these first couple of games where I've seen before,
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Speaker 1: you know, young players, they become frustrated and try to
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Speaker 1: push too much and and go go too hard, and
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Speaker 1: that leads to more issues you know, down the road.
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Speaker 1: And UM, I think he's done a really good job
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Speaker 1: of not of not getting to that point. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's why he was able to have the type
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Speaker 1: of game that he had last week. And obviously we
8:00
Speaker 1: played much better, um, you know up front. And I
8:03
Speaker 1: think the thing that probably is getting missed in all
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Speaker 1: of this is that, you know, really when he came
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Speaker 1: to us, um, you know, the first the first year,
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Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't in on third downs you know
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Speaker 1: quite a bit. And usually when you see that in
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Speaker 1: a in a running back and a great running back, UM,
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Speaker 1: and if he's not in there, it's usually has something
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Speaker 1: to do with protection. And I think the one thing
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Speaker 1: that his in his game that that that he's really
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Speaker 1: done a great job of. I'm talking about like if
8:28
Speaker 1: you look from when he first came in here to
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Speaker 1: where he is now. Is his past protection. And that's
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Speaker 1: something that you know, people never talk about, but obviously
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's extremely important you know what we
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Speaker 1: do and and um, you know, obviously he has the
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Speaker 1: ability to catch the ball in the backfield. He's made
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Speaker 1: some plays that were big plays that have helped us
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Speaker 1: get points, but get overlooked a little bit because he's
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Speaker 1: not being the ball is not being handed to him,
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Speaker 1: it's being thrown to him. And something he said about
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Speaker 1: his past protection, You remember this guy, he's probably never
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Speaker 1: been asked to do that at at all until they
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Speaker 1: got here, right. I mean, that's probably a little bit
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Speaker 1: of it. But again, when you have a back like
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Speaker 1: that and you're in college, you know, um, you know
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Speaker 1: you don't you don't want to take an extra hit
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Speaker 1: and protect them. You know, you just want to keep
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Speaker 1: giving them feeding them the football. So, um, I can't
9:16
Speaker 1: really recall a lot of it, and probably you're probably
9:19
Speaker 1: correct on it, but off the top of my mind, note,
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Speaker 1: but I know in the NFL it is quite different.
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Speaker 1: The looks are different, Um, the disguises are different. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's there's a whole lot more pressure
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Speaker 1: on on your pickups, and it's not like, hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: you just have this one guy here. Hey, the line
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Speaker 1: is going to take care of these people and you've
9:37
Speaker 1: got everybody else. It's kind of how it is. So
9:40
Speaker 1: you talk about reading defenses like a quarterback and no
9:42
Speaker 1: one where pressure is coming from, you know, not just Leonard,
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Speaker 1: but all running backs and and and in the whole NFL.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to go through that, you know, transformation
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Speaker 1: from college to the NFL. Last two weeks, you've gotten
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Speaker 1: touchdowns out of the tight end position. Obviously, that's trending
9:56
Speaker 1: up after the first two weeks where it didn't seem
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Speaker 1: like you had a lot. Coach you like where that's headed.
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Speaker 1: What more do you need from that group to make
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Speaker 1: your offense efficient? Well, I think you know, you're always
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Speaker 1: trying to push as a coach, and I think that, um,
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Speaker 1: the more weapons you have where you're not locked into um,
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Speaker 1: one player, which sometimes can occur with the you know,
10:16
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks just having a great feel for one person. Um,
10:21
Speaker 1: you know, when you're able to distribute the football, you know,
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Speaker 1: through your tight ends to your you know, receivers, to
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Speaker 1: your running backs and things like that. I believe it
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Speaker 1: puts more pressure, you know, on the defense that you
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Speaker 1: know they have to cover, rather than saying, hey, let's
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Speaker 1: locked this person down and let's force this quarterback to
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Speaker 1: go to someone he's not comfortable with. You know right now, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know a gardener plane, he's you know, he's comfortable
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Speaker 1: going to his reads and and throwing it to the
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Speaker 1: open man. And just last one for me Yankees and seven. No,
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Speaker 1: not not the Yankees. No, it's not the first of all,
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Speaker 1: it's a five game series. But no, no no, I just
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Speaker 1: I was jumping ahead of the World Series. I just
10:56
Speaker 1: wasn't even messing around with I don't have you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I was jumping like smoking like a
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Speaker 1: true coach. I'm taking a game by game. You know.
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Speaker 1: We got we got two in the Bronx and and
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Speaker 1: the first ones tonight. So they're playing in Minnesota team
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be fired up. You know. Obviously they're talking
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Speaker 1: about slaying the dragon and things of that nature. So
11:14
Speaker 1: bolts and board material and um, you know, it'll be
11:18
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. I know I'll be. It's tough because
11:21
Speaker 1: I got a Bowls game tonight, and I have you
11:23
Speaker 1: know the Yankee game. You know, believe me, I'll have
11:27
Speaker 1: I'll have the Yankee game on first pitch, the first pitch,
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Speaker 1: eight oh five, right, thinks somebody's got asked about Minshew.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't go anywhere about asking about him.
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Speaker 1: I even know what to ask about him anymore. But
11:42
Speaker 1: just you know, um, I guess just his ability to
11:47
Speaker 1: handle all that. But well know, I mean you can't
11:50
Speaker 1: ask about the mustache in here at some point. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I guess the job that he continues to do in
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Speaker 1: handling everything that's going on in the outside. Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't see that. So it's very difficult to me.
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Speaker 1: I get that question quite a bit to really comment
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Speaker 1: on on it, because I see a guy different than
12:07
Speaker 1: what um, maybe he's described on the outside, meaning that
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Speaker 1: the guy that comes into work has a laser light
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Speaker 1: focus about himself that you know, enjoys um the challenge
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Speaker 1: you know of of practice and being on the field,
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Speaker 1: that enjoys being around his teammates. Um, you know a
12:26
Speaker 1: guy that you can, you know, tell him what you
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Speaker 1: want and and and I can really truly understand it
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Speaker 1: and go out and and do it. It doesn't you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not like, hey, we have to do something three
12:36
Speaker 1: or four times before he finally gets it. So you
12:39
Speaker 1: know that that that's a credit to him. And you know,
12:43
Speaker 1: people ask me how you're handling it, what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: I really don't have to do anything because you know,
12:47
Speaker 1: what he's doing right now when when he walks in
12:49
Speaker 1: the building is exactly what we need. Easy to forget,
12:52
Speaker 1: Easy rookie. Yeah, I hear your work dinnermarkable. So before
12:57
Speaker 1: we let you go, how do you think this team
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Speaker 1: is going to hand one Christian McCaffrey and then every
13:02
Speaker 1: offensive player we've talked to so far in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: I said, this is one of the better defenses you
13:05
Speaker 1: guys are gonna see all season. Yeah. I think defensively,
13:08
Speaker 1: when you look at it and haven't gone against coach
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Speaker 1: Riverta and obviously Carolina and the players that they've had
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Speaker 1: in the past, I think you know they're they're probably
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Speaker 1: one of the most disciplined defenses that will face you know,
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Speaker 1: they force you to, you know, you know, take what's given,
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Speaker 1: you know, and not try to push. I think when
13:25
Speaker 1: you try to push against them, you know, that's when um,
13:28
Speaker 1: you know, for cult goes into that favor, you know,
13:31
Speaker 1: when you try to force force balls or force you know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes the run game. I think that, um, you know,
13:37
Speaker 1: we've got to do a good job of staying on track.
13:39
Speaker 1: This is not a team that you know, the penalties
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Speaker 1: can really hurt us this week. You know, it's it's
13:44
Speaker 1: very difficult to overcome um long yard and situations with
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Speaker 1: his own coverage, you know that they have. So you know,
13:51
Speaker 1: those are the challenges that we're gonna face offensively with
13:53
Speaker 1: you know, probably um, you know, obviously a great defensive line,
13:57
Speaker 1: a wave of them, um Um Hall Fame linebacker to
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Speaker 1: you know, with their linebacker is playing extremely well on
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Speaker 1: the back end, that that that really knows how to
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Speaker 1: pass things off and really are good with their eyes
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Speaker 1: and and really difficult to get out of position. So
14:11
Speaker 1: it'll be a challenge for us there, I think when
14:13
Speaker 1: you look at it from from our defensive side, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, obviously a lots on Christian McCaffrey
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Speaker 1: because you know, he's about forty five of their offense,
14:23
Speaker 1: which is big, but you don't want to sleep on
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Speaker 1: the other players. You know, Olsen's the tight end. He's
14:27
Speaker 1: been successful for a long period of time in this league.
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Speaker 1: The two outside receivers you know, with Samuel's and and
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Speaker 1: and more are are good players that can find um
14:37
Speaker 1: open areas in the zone catch the ball, but they're
14:39
Speaker 1: really good with yards after the catch. And you know,
14:43
Speaker 1: you know, if they do catch the ball, we've got
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Speaker 1: to get him down. And then when you look at
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Speaker 1: a Christian, it's it's difficult. I mean, obviously he's a
14:49
Speaker 1: great running back. He can run inside, he can run outside,
14:52
Speaker 1: so you know he has a speed to get the
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Speaker 1: ball on the edge and he has a speed that
14:56
Speaker 1: if he gets through there, you know he could be
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Speaker 1: in your secondary and a heartbeat, so you got to
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Speaker 1: have a lot of people around them. Very difficult to
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Speaker 1: cover a running back, you know from a past standpoint,
15:06
Speaker 1: you know, coming out in the backfield. That's why you
15:08
Speaker 1: see sometimes in the NFL some people who put a
15:10
Speaker 1: wide receiver back there, you know, to try to get
15:12
Speaker 1: extra coverage on him. So you know that that that's tough.
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Speaker 1: And then when he when he winds up, when he
15:17
Speaker 1: lines up as a wide receiver, he has the same
15:19
Speaker 1: ability as any wide receiver inst league, meaning you know,
15:22
Speaker 1: his ability to run these routes where you almost want
15:24
Speaker 1: to be able to put a corner on him, but
15:26
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to because you don't have
15:28
Speaker 1: that that luxury of know one when he's gonna line
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Speaker 1: up wide and when he's not. But you know, the
15:32
Speaker 1: one thing that you have to do is is is
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Speaker 1: you you know he's going to get the football and
15:37
Speaker 1: you know you have to get you know, what we
15:38
Speaker 1: talk about is population to the ball, because you know,
15:41
Speaker 1: you don't want to give this player a lot of space,
15:44
Speaker 1: meaning that when when he has space and as you know,
15:46
Speaker 1: three to five yards in between him and a defender,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's it's very difficult to bring
15:52
Speaker 1: him down. So you know, we've got to do a
15:54
Speaker 1: good job and be aware of where he is all
15:56
Speaker 1: the time, and and and and do a good job
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Speaker 1: of getting people to to him when he goes get
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Speaker 1: the ball. It sounds like quite the challenge to say
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Speaker 1: the least about. All right, good luck coach, and good
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Speaker 1: luck to the Yankees. Great, thank you very much for you.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com Slash fan Fest. John, look at that group.
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Speaker 1: You like that pipe group? Well, let's be honest. John
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Speaker 1: is in the suit. Yes, that's why he likes it.
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Speaker 1: Much younger and more full of life than all right,
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Speaker 1: let's get into big things now that you're full of life.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is momentum. So important to keep this
18:30
Speaker 1: momentum going. When you have the schedule you do coming
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Speaker 1: up Saints, Bengals, Jets, all ahead. If you can beat
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Speaker 1: the Panthers this weekend, you feel pretty good about winning
18:39
Speaker 1: those games as well. Big thing too is defense. Unsure
18:43
Speaker 1: if Jalen Ramsey will practice day and whether he'll play
18:46
Speaker 1: on Sunday. What does that mean for this defense. We
18:49
Speaker 1: saw the Denver Broncos pick on Trey hern And for
18:51
Speaker 1: sure last week. Are they more reliant on the past
18:54
Speaker 1: rush on Sunday if Jalen Ramsey cannot go and big
18:57
Speaker 1: thing three is more question mark? Can you realistically ask
19:02
Speaker 1: more of Gardner Minshew than what he's already given you
19:04
Speaker 1: a huge win on the road that he had a
19:06
Speaker 1: lot to do with last week? Can you ask him
19:08
Speaker 1: to do it again this week and even perform better
19:11
Speaker 1: than he has? Well, you can ask him, I mean
19:13
Speaker 1: that's the question though, I mean can he do it
19:16
Speaker 1: weekend and week out? It's a pretty high bard set
19:20
Speaker 1: completing your passes, your quarterback rating at one oh six,
19:24
Speaker 1: and especially against the Panther's defense, But that's not gonna
19:27
Speaker 1: stop anyone from asking. Yeah. And I think this is
19:29
Speaker 1: the toughest Everybody talked about Von von Miller and the
19:33
Speaker 1: Broncos last week or their pass rush. Uh. The Panthers
19:36
Speaker 1: pass rush, as we know, is just as good if
19:40
Speaker 1: not having the name recognition, and I think they're back
19:44
Speaker 1: seven is better. I think it concerns is Doug and
19:48
Speaker 1: everybody on offense has talked all week about how discipline
19:50
Speaker 1: this Panther's defense is they are going to do things
19:54
Speaker 1: you Gardy would be the defense that gives him the
19:56
Speaker 1: toughest test so far. H The defense wh to play
20:00
Speaker 1: I think significantly better than it did last week for
20:02
Speaker 1: this team, and to wings. I think the offense, uh
20:05
Speaker 1: and getting into twenty six will be harder than it
20:07
Speaker 1: was last week against his Panthers. This defense has to
20:09
Speaker 1: go back to the way they played the Texans and
20:11
Speaker 1: the way they played the Titan That would be nice.
20:14
Speaker 1: It was. I mean, how about how about how about
20:18
Speaker 1: just go back to the way that you played for
20:20
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen minutes of the second half the other right,
20:24
Speaker 1: they played really well because it has been lost, Yeah,
20:27
Speaker 1: a little bit. How well they played I guess sixteen
20:29
Speaker 1: half from when they got the ball and Joe Flacker,
20:33
Speaker 1: you know, and we heard this week that he got
20:34
Speaker 1: rid of the ball ridiculously fast, which is true. The
20:37
Speaker 1: Jaguars need to do a much better job of getting pressure,
20:40
Speaker 1: which brings us the big thing too, and that is
20:42
Speaker 1: how much of their inability to stop them in the
20:47
Speaker 1: first half and the final three minutes. It was not
20:49
Speaker 1: even Jalen on the field, didn't no, because insight you figure, yeah, right, Hey,
20:58
Speaker 1: John that broadcast school really paid off. Um. The the
21:02
Speaker 1: reality of it is is that if he was on
21:04
Speaker 1: the field, he takes Courtland Sutton out of the game. Right. Uh,
21:07
Speaker 1: if he can take uh DeAndre Hopkins out of the game,
21:10
Speaker 1: you can take Courtland Sutton or Emmanuel Sanders whatever if
21:13
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have Jalen and these are good receivers
21:17
Speaker 1: again under the DJ more is really a talent that
21:20
Speaker 1: they're nderrated, very underrated. You're going to have to get
21:25
Speaker 1: home with the pass run and you have to get home,
21:27
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to take advantage you. Some NMES
21:32
Speaker 1: pregame matchups, we talked about them. They never happened. Uh,
21:35
Speaker 1: Kyle Ale and their quarterback has a propensity to put
21:37
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground and fumble. Uh. This defense
21:40
Speaker 1: has not created a turnover in that way. You only
21:42
Speaker 1: created one all year. Uh. To win on the road
21:46
Speaker 1: in this situation against a very fundamentally sound team, Uh,
21:50
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to do something outside the XS and
21:52
Speaker 1: os if you will, I think a couple of sack
21:54
Speaker 1: fumbles or one stack fumble that turns momentum one of
21:57
Speaker 1: the halfs. If they don't get that, I have a
22:00
Speaker 1: time see him win in this game. And it goes
22:01
Speaker 1: back to the first big thing, which is momentum, and
22:03
Speaker 1: you know you you've got a little bit of it.
22:05
Speaker 1: It's just a little um, and you've got this stretch
22:08
Speaker 1: where there are some games that are winnable. I think
22:11
Speaker 1: you gotta keep the momendum going to stop and start thing.
22:13
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that works at this point with
22:15
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. Maybe he can just pick it up
22:17
Speaker 1: because I keep waiting for him to throw a pick six,
22:20
Speaker 1: you know, because that's what workie quarterbacks do. But they've
22:22
Speaker 1: they've got it. This team has the ability to kind
22:25
Speaker 1: of create its own momentum right now based on the
22:27
Speaker 1: little bit that they've got. Uh. It's tough game. It's
22:31
Speaker 1: really tough game, but it's a winnable game. I'll tell
22:33
Speaker 1: you the most fascinating thing to me about Doug in
22:37
Speaker 1: the first part of this he liked the seventeen team
22:41
Speaker 1: a lot. If you remember, like each week when he
22:44
Speaker 1: would come in here, you've got more and more of
22:46
Speaker 1: a feeling this guy really likes a lot about what's
22:49
Speaker 1: going on. He likes the way they approach it. Um Naturally,
22:53
Speaker 1: when they've won two in a row, you would think, well,
22:55
Speaker 1: of course he likes the team, But I'm getting that
22:58
Speaker 1: same sort of vibe from him. He likes how these
23:00
Speaker 1: guys approach it. He likes the resiliency that he talked about. Um,
23:06
Speaker 1: it'll be tested this week. The things he likes about
23:09
Speaker 1: this team will be tested in Carolina, a road game.
23:12
Speaker 1: It gets the team is very fundingmentally sound. They will
23:15
Speaker 1: not be gifted this game. And if you win this one,
23:20
Speaker 1: then you're pretty good. I think you can be good
23:23
Speaker 1: without winning this one. I don't think they're gonna win
23:25
Speaker 1: this one, but if you win this one, it's saying
23:28
Speaker 1: something you've won twice in a row, you've won three
23:30
Speaker 1: in a row, or right twice some road on the road. Um,
23:34
Speaker 1: this is a big one and I think it's tougher
23:37
Speaker 1: than a lot of people think. Agree. UM, I just
23:40
Speaker 1: want to emphasize that point that I made to him,
23:42
Speaker 1: and that is, since the first five quarters of the season,
23:45
Speaker 1: we're questioning their mental healthness. Right for some of it
23:48
Speaker 1: not their fault. They lose their quarterback. Some of their fault.
23:50
Speaker 1: Miles Jack loses his mind and in uh in the
23:53
Speaker 1: Kent City game, and then you Jalen does on the
23:56
Speaker 1: sidelines in Houston. But from that moment when Doug just
23:58
Speaker 1: went back to coach and Jay and played, you had
24:01
Speaker 1: a team again eleven quarters where they have played good football. Um,
24:06
Speaker 1: they didn't win in Houston though they could have, and
24:11
Speaker 1: I I was pissed about the lack of mental toughness.
24:15
Speaker 1: I said as much. And to see where they've come,
24:18
Speaker 1: it's remarkable to me. And I think it's getting overlooked
24:20
Speaker 1: with men Tumania and the and the Ramsey stuff. Just
24:23
Speaker 1: how tough this team has been upstairs. You gotta keep
24:27
Speaker 1: it going. You have no chance to win Carolina this
24:29
Speaker 1: week unless you're mentally tough, because there's going to be adversity.
24:32
Speaker 1: You're gonna stuft for a sack, you're gonna miss a play,
24:35
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's gonna go eighty. Something's gonna happen, and you better
24:39
Speaker 1: be able to dialect back down and go right back
24:40
Speaker 1: to the next play. Based on the last eleven quarters
24:43
Speaker 1: of football, I think there's a greater chance of them
24:45
Speaker 1: getting that done. Yeah, the resilience and the toughness really
24:47
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24:51
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24:54
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24:57
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Speaker 1: time for he will he won't He might for Sunday's
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Speaker 1: game against Carolina Panthers. We picked some of the stars,
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Speaker 1: but John John has to be reminded who he takes
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Speaker 1: at times. He's got a lot going on, but he
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Speaker 1: knows this speek Leonard for Nett and uh he will
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Speaker 1: be prepared, Um, he will be mentally ready. All those
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Speaker 1: things that we wondered about this guy last year, and
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Speaker 1: we're legitimate questions. Um, you know, it sort of ties
27:27
Speaker 1: into he won't he won't be a distraction, he won't
27:32
Speaker 1: be not engaged if you will. It's remarkable the change
27:39
Speaker 1: that we've seen. And I remember maybe in training camp,
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Speaker 1: I think he was Schlenz he will, he won he
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Speaker 1: might And you sort of pushed her to say, tell
27:50
Speaker 1: me how this guy is really going to be and
27:52
Speaker 1: she Lynn finally said, I think he's going to be.
27:55
Speaker 1: I think he's really changed. Um, he might have. I mean,
27:59
Speaker 1: it's one of the most remarkable turnarounds in terms of approach,
28:05
Speaker 1: in terms of in December, in January, we all thought
28:09
Speaker 1: this guy if he was going to be on the
28:12
Speaker 1: team again, we wondered about that, if he was going
28:15
Speaker 1: to be a long term fixture. Most people doubted it
28:19
Speaker 1: at this point, Brian, I would be very surprised if
28:21
Speaker 1: they don't pick up the fifth year option next year.
28:22
Speaker 1: I mean, he has played his way from being what
28:27
Speaker 1: people thought was a liability to being a core guy
28:31
Speaker 1: on the team. Now. I know we're only four weeks in,
28:34
Speaker 1: but for him, it was always that outside stuff, and
28:37
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've ever seen a guy fix that
28:39
Speaker 1: with this rapidity. That's what why will do for you.
28:42
Speaker 1: Remember I've heard that. Yeah, I love Wyoming by the way. Um.
28:46
Speaker 1: Remember when he talked about how he didn't like playing
28:48
Speaker 1: the cold in ten you know, I'm from the seventh
28:51
Speaker 1: Ward and you know, and then he goes to Wyoming,
28:53
Speaker 1: of all places, just I don't like the cold. And
28:55
Speaker 1: then he goes to the cold and there's you know,
28:57
Speaker 1: that's a rough environment. The wind blows up there a lot,
29:00
Speaker 1: and it's cold. And he went there off this new
29:03
Speaker 1: we rains, let me tell you. And so somehow from
29:08
Speaker 1: that he created he has come back right his rise
29:13
Speaker 1: from the ashes, excepting where ashes it was ice chips. Um.
29:17
Speaker 1: It's remarkable. And I don't know what he said to
29:20
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson on the sideline, but I saw the photos
29:23
Speaker 1: like everyone else did, and I can only surmise that
29:25
Speaker 1: he was saying, hey, don't because remember Cam jumped in
29:29
Speaker 1: to throw uh Simmons the safety off of burnette. He
29:34
Speaker 1: had hit his head and he was wrenching it. I
29:36
Speaker 1: mean it was prutal um and letters like I got myself,
29:40
Speaker 1: you got yours, don't get us the penalty late in
29:42
Speaker 1: the game. If that's really what he was saying. Then
29:44
Speaker 1: it's a dramatic change. Yeah, his last year he had
29:47
Speaker 1: been the guy people were trying to pull, the guy
29:49
Speaker 1: ran across Field and Buffalo. He's a guy who's showing
29:52
Speaker 1: the kind of mental toughness that I've been talking um.
29:54
Speaker 1: The other thing is to watch him the first you know,
29:57
Speaker 1: the end of last season, in the first game here
30:00
Speaker 1: this season, you didn't see him digging the extra yard.
30:03
Speaker 1: Absolutely not what you do now like you do now.
30:06
Speaker 1: He has to play that way the effective and and
30:08
Speaker 1: not just digging but lowering the hips and trying to
30:10
Speaker 1: spind to the outside. But on the one yard run,
30:14
Speaker 1: the vision and I've questioned his vision. In fact, at
30:17
Speaker 1: the end of the run, I question just keep going
30:18
Speaker 1: to the outside and go to the quarter. He tried
30:20
Speaker 1: to cut it back in. He was trying to be bespoke, um,
30:23
Speaker 1: But the vision, if you watch it, the cut that
30:26
Speaker 1: he made to get through that hole, Oh wow, he's
30:29
Speaker 1: got it. If he plays that dialed in. He's a
30:32
Speaker 1: very difficult player, which I think for at least this year,
30:36
Speaker 1: meaning this is a year that this is a proven
30:37
Speaker 1: year with him. But it's uh. Again, I didn't think
30:43
Speaker 1: they would release him in the off season, but I
30:45
Speaker 1: had no idea how I was going to turn off
30:47
Speaker 1: for him this year, and it's been remarkable. Yeah, he
30:49
Speaker 1: was our guests on Jaguars All Access last night and
30:51
Speaker 1: it was by far the biggest crowd we've had all season.
30:53
Speaker 1: And normally the players stick around for like ten minutes
30:56
Speaker 1: after the show. The line for autographs for him was
30:59
Speaker 1: from one side of the restaurant to the other, and
31:01
Speaker 1: I was told he stayed well passed the ten minute
31:04
Speaker 1: mark to sign all these autographs. He's a star. And
31:06
Speaker 1: don't forget that. I mean he is, especially down here
31:08
Speaker 1: in this part of the world with the Southeastern Conference
31:11
Speaker 1: is so all encompassing. He was a star as a
31:13
Speaker 1: schoolboy when he was looking at all the different schools.
31:15
Speaker 1: He was a star when he went to l s U.
31:17
Speaker 1: And if he plays to half of what he played
31:20
Speaker 1: last week, a hundred and twelve and a half hards
31:23
Speaker 1: next week against Carolina, he's a star. And when he
31:26
Speaker 1: lets himself show his personality, you know he's got a
31:31
Speaker 1: million dollars teammate. He's always been great with the public.
31:34
Speaker 1: I've always gotten a feeling with media. Maybe not sure
31:38
Speaker 1: if it was his time to do it. Didn't like
31:40
Speaker 1: to do it. But when he's a personality's a rock star,
31:43
Speaker 1: all right, and you have another star in the making, well,
31:47
Speaker 1: Miles Jack has been paid, so he's better be a star. Uh.
31:49
Speaker 1: And he'll have to be on Sunday. He will And
31:52
Speaker 1: I don't know what the game plan is, but I
31:54
Speaker 1: know he will see plenty of Christian McCaffrey. The middle
31:57
Speaker 1: linebacker is going to have to be the guy who
31:59
Speaker 1: identified eyes where he is and what the Jaguars are
32:04
Speaker 1: going to do about that, And he will be central
32:08
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars success against Christian McCaffrey. He won't get
32:13
Speaker 1: a breather. There's not gonna be an oxygen tank on
32:15
Speaker 1: the sideline like there was last week. He will be
32:18
Speaker 1: gassed at the end of this game because he will
32:19
Speaker 1: be chasing McCaffrey all over the field. Um. I felt
32:24
Speaker 1: like he's close to a play here or there, and
32:27
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about a tackle the line of scrimmage.
32:30
Speaker 1: I felt like he's close to an interceptions, close to
32:33
Speaker 1: a tip pass, He's close to a sack. Um. He
32:37
Speaker 1: might have a breakout game in terms of a score.
32:40
Speaker 1: He might score the Jaguars first touchdown with Kyle Allen
32:44
Speaker 1: putting the ball on the ground. I can see a
32:46
Speaker 1: scenario where Josh Allen or Calais Campbell knocks the ball free,
32:50
Speaker 1: it bounces, and he's the guy that picks it up
32:52
Speaker 1: and goes thirty two yards for a touchdown. I can
32:54
Speaker 1: see that. So it might happen, right my, He will,
32:57
Speaker 1: he won't. He might is Ronnie Harrison. He will keep
33:00
Speaker 1: this momentum going coming off a game changing interception last week.
33:04
Speaker 1: Keep your eyes on him, just like we were talking
33:06
Speaker 1: about with Miles, to make big plays on defense this week.
33:09
Speaker 1: He won't be affected by Jalen Ramsey's absence. He was
33:12
Speaker 1: one of the leading teammates who was pretty upset after
33:15
Speaker 1: that Houston altercation and was panicking if Dalen Ramsey wasn't
33:18
Speaker 1: on the field. He wasn't on the field last week,
33:20
Speaker 1: and that did not stop Ronnie Harrison from playing extremely well.
33:23
Speaker 1: And he might. This might just be his year. I
33:25
Speaker 1: remember when Sean to, Shaun Gibson and Barry Church left
33:29
Speaker 1: this team and everyone was worried about Ronnie Harrison being
33:32
Speaker 1: too young and not being able to handle it. They're
33:34
Speaker 1: not worried about that right now. He is a gifted
33:36
Speaker 1: athlete now and when. And I don't know if people
33:38
Speaker 1: can see it, Um from the stands or on TV.
33:41
Speaker 1: He's long. I mean he has long arms and long fingers,
33:45
Speaker 1: and I mean those are the things that scouts look
33:47
Speaker 1: for because that means that when I'm in coverage, I
33:50
Speaker 1: have that extra injur or two that I can just
33:53
Speaker 1: tip a bowl away, or that I can reach and
33:55
Speaker 1: make the play. Um, the length is so important on
33:57
Speaker 1: a guy. He's tall, he's range e, he's bass. He
34:00
Speaker 1: also because he's not a he's not a guy who
34:04
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34:06
Speaker 1: He's a great kid. I like him a lot, and
34:08
Speaker 1: I think he's got his head screwed on straight. He's
34:10
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34:13
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34:16
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34:18
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Speaker 1: to Jack's Drives time Friday morning, and do not forget
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Speaker 1: if you're coming to the Saints game, use that Minshew
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Speaker 1: from when we get fifteen percent off. It's Minshew maniacent off.
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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you take it here? There's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: lot of Saints fans there that they have their their
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Speaker 1: travel group and they are taking over part of Prime
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Speaker 1: Osbourne on Saturday night for the big party. Just Sam,
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Speaker 1: it shouldn't be a busy weekend. When we were up
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Speaker 1: there in New Orleans for Leonard's documentary. The amount of
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Speaker 1: people who are saying they were coming for this game
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Speaker 1: months ago, Well, I'm gonna go home pretty disappointed. Right.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Leonard's presidents here has something to
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Speaker 1: do with it. Yeah, you could say it is a
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Speaker 1: long drive, long boring drive. I'm or pick one and
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Speaker 1: pick it. John. You have the falcons at the Texans yeah,
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Speaker 1: and uh, this is a tough one. Um. I think
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna see is Atlanta get off the map.
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Speaker 1: There are a one in three. I think they're too
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Speaker 1: good to be one in three. Uh. For the Texans,
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Speaker 1: to me, this is a lot like last week's Jaguars game.
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Speaker 1: They're playing a team that you might be able to
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Speaker 1: end their season, so to speak. That's always a tough ask. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I see the Falcons getting off the mat, and it's
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Speaker 1: a big game for the Jaguars in the sense that
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Speaker 1: if you win all of a sudden, you can get
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Speaker 1: up on the Texans, which you know, three weeks ago
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Speaker 1: nobody thought it was gonna happen. So Uh, I think
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Speaker 1: this is the Falcons comeback game. It's what gets him
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Speaker 1: at least temporarily back into it and uh sets the
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Speaker 1: Texans back. I'm just not sold on the Texans. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't when we left there a few weeks ago. I'd
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Speaker 1: understand they've got talent. Um, I just expect that Matt Iron,
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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, and Calvin Really at some point are going
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Speaker 1: to light that thing up and they'll get DeVonta Freeman going. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. Desperate teams are very difficult to beat.
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Speaker 1: Especially Yeah, I feel like what they lost two in
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Speaker 1: a row now, um one at the end of the
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Speaker 1: game in Indianapolis, I'd like the Falcons to Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: talk about a team that's so up and down, that
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Speaker 1: to me is the Texans. You saw them play very
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Speaker 1: well against the Jaguars and then the Panthers last week.
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Speaker 1: It didn't look like the same team. J. G. Watts
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Speaker 1: not the same player. The biggest mistake they made this
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Speaker 1: year was letting Clowney go because their defense isn't the same.
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Speaker 1: When Clowney was there, he was a great player, but
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Speaker 1: he allowed J. J. Watt a lot more single blocking
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Speaker 1: and what was what at sixteen and half sacks last
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Speaker 1: year just doesn't look the same without Clowning. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can imagine if the Jaguars let go Unique and
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Speaker 1: Goua and that I would put on clays camp. They
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Speaker 1: have to be a different player, without a doubt. But
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Speaker 1: what you know, you wondered about the leg and the
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Speaker 1: back and all the different injuries that he suffered. He
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Speaker 1: didn't look he was struggling with it because Clowney was
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Speaker 1: taking a lot of heat off him, and one on
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Speaker 1: one he's still very difficult player to block. But if
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Speaker 1: you're asking him to be double teams, he's not doing
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Speaker 1: it right. Brian, you have Indianapolis at Kansas City, Babs
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Speaker 1: Cheeks all the way. I've been impressed with Jacoby said
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Speaker 1: two years ago, we saw him and I saw nothing
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Speaker 1: that made me think this was a guy who could
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Speaker 1: carry a team. The offensive line has made a huge
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Speaker 1: difference there. Marlon Mack is a nice running back and
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Speaker 1: has given them some big performances. The problem is is
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Speaker 1: that the Colts defense is without Darius Leonard. Uh there
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Speaker 1: are a pro bow middle linebacker. I don't even think
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Speaker 1: with Justin Houston they have enough pass rush to really
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Speaker 1: affect Mahomes because these guys didn't and these guys have
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Speaker 1: rushers all over the place. So I think Kansas City
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Speaker 1: at home on Sunday night goes to five and all. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is an interesting time for the Colts. They state
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Speaker 1: above water, so to speak, and had a chance last
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Speaker 1: week to sort of really impress people and then didn't
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Speaker 1: against the Raiders. H hard to see him winning this game.
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Speaker 1: Is this the start of Is this start of a tailspin?
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because I think they're better than
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Speaker 1: people think you the roster is pretty good, but it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna get dicey if they get blown out on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: which they might, because the Chiefs can do that. Chiefs
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Speaker 1: can put up points in the in bunches. They've got
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Speaker 1: a young corner that they're excited about in Rocky sin
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Speaker 1: the kid from Temple Um, but he has he has
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Speaker 1: not seen this offense and this is going to leave
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Speaker 1: some guys guessing. Yeah. When you hear those two game previews,
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Speaker 1: that makes it known that the Jaggs have a great
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Speaker 1: opportunity with the a f C South this week. What
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Speaker 1: we're saying, I'm onto you guys. I see what you
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Speaker 1: two are saying. You've been around long enough, alright. My
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Speaker 1: pick one and pick it is Green Bay Packers at
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. The thing with this game is the injuries.
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Speaker 1: Dallas left tackle, he's out this game. The Packers have
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Speaker 1: three key injuries. Both teams three and one kind of
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Speaker 1: even right now. And Dak Presscott of course, going against
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. That's the matchup everyone's watching. But I think
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Dallas at home with this one. Both
40:54
Speaker 1: trying to get above water. Both very good teams, but
40:57
Speaker 1: it's hard to pick against Dallas at home. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: do it, though, I'm gonna pick Green Bay. Um. I
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Speaker 1: think their defense is really talented, uh, better than New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: who really put the clamp slast week on Dak Prescott.
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Speaker 1: It would be a tough environment, and that Dallas offensive line,
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Speaker 1: even without the left tackle, is still very very good.
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Speaker 1: But I just think Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers when
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback, and I always look and
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Speaker 1: say who's the quarterback against Okay, he'll beat him, right,
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Speaker 1: didn't work out that week that way last week although
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Speaker 1: they had a chance to win the ball game against
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. Um, so I'll go with the upset on
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Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, Green Bay. Better defense, better quarterback. Yeah.
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