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Fred Taylor on Absence of Jonathan Taylor, Week 1 vs. Colts | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues the Jaguars facing Indianapolis Colts. It
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  Speaker 1: is Week one in the National Football League and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor, and it is opening weekend at
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  Speaker 1: long last, Fred, what's.
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  Speaker 2: Up, JP. I'm good man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just happy football is back and this opponent it's
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  Speaker 3: an old friend, like an old bully. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you remember different strokes. Remember, uh, what was it?
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  Speaker 3: What was that bully's name, the Gooch or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the Coats. They used to be an old bully,
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  Speaker 3: but not anymore. I think the Jaguars are here to stay.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think i'd get a different strokes reference today.
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  Speaker 1: I must say, you've that's one bingo square. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think i'd feel today.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, well, I mean I used to. That was
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  Speaker 3: my show growing up, man. You know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: a little a little different strokes, a little this and
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  Speaker 3: a little that. You know, it was some good shows
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  Speaker 3: growing up as a child. Now days kids are stuck
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube watching the pivot. But it's all good for me.
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  Speaker 3: But again, it's just happy that it's football season, real games,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we get to see some real scores. We
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  Speaker 3: get to see some some players developed right in front
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  Speaker 3: of our eyes, some guys, you know, reach that legendary status.
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  Speaker 3: We get to see some old school guys on other
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  Speaker 3: teams do their things. I'm interested to see how a
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  Speaker 3: rod is going to do up there in New York.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see how Saquon is going to do.
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  Speaker 3: And it missed up all this running back turmoil, turmoil
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason with him and Josh Jacobs fighting for contracts,
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  Speaker 3: a few guys being traded throughout the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: So football, man, it all put it.
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  Speaker 3: In that big pot of dumboat that you call football
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  Speaker 3: is going to be so good.
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  Speaker 1: Bret Taylor with us. Let's get to this Jaguars Colts matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and let's start with the star attraction. It's the Jaguars offsets.
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  Speaker 1: Just everybody's been talking about it all off season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all these weapons on offense, a maturing quarterback, the play calling,
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  Speaker 1: a duo, if you will, the play schemer and the
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  Speaker 1: play color of press Taylor and Doug Peterson. All that
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  Speaker 1: combines and it's great on paper. You got to see
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  Speaker 1: it in the game though, Fred, I mean, what is
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  Speaker 1: this going to look like against the Colts?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope that it looks amazing. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: the anticipation, the expectations are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Trevor Lawrence, he's arrived.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're ready to see him as sin to become,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to continue to be in that conversation as
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  Speaker 3: one of the top guys in the entire NFL, let
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  Speaker 3: alone the FC. We know, the AFC has a long
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  Speaker 3: list of dogs at quarterback. So along with Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 3: you know, now you had Travis etn in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: You got Calvin Ridley in addition to the receiving court,
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  Speaker 3: so they're ready. And then you bring the other receivers
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  Speaker 3: back so they're ready to see what this offense and
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  Speaker 3: what this hype is all about. But again with that,
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  Speaker 3: you can you cannot forget the defense. However, you remember
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  Speaker 3: those days again, and I'll go back to when the
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  Speaker 3: NFL was about defense. You had to have a defense.
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  Speaker 3: Defense wins championship, blah blah blah. Yeah, they don't really
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  Speaker 3: say that nowadays. They're like, how strong is your offense?
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  Speaker 3: Can we slow them down? That's the NFL that we
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  Speaker 3: live in. That's the NFL we get excited for. We
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  Speaker 3: need to see forty point blowouts, you know, in order
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy our victories. But at the end of the day, JP,
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  Speaker 3: with all that said, I want to see what the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars offense is about. I'm rooting for him. You know
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  Speaker 3: I'm biased. I'm rooting for him. I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be lights out. I still got my fourteen hundred
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  Speaker 3: yard plus rushing prediction on Travis etn I think Trevor's
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  Speaker 3: gonna make its second Pro Bowl and a few other
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  Speaker 3: other Really his return, I think he'll be a thousand
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  Speaker 3: yard receiver.
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  Speaker 2: So it should be fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like fun to me. It's Fred Taylor pride of
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back. Defensively, we know what they did
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  Speaker 1: at the end of last season, getting takeaways, getting the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback when they needed to in big moments. But the
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  Speaker 1: trick now is that over a seventeen game stretch in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season, can they take a step and do
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  Speaker 1: it consistently week over a week. But the challenge this
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  Speaker 1: week is really the unknown, like, how does this Colts offense?
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  Speaker 1: You know, what is Anthony Richardson really going to look?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What will they give him? Who are the weapons? And
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  Speaker 1: that's tough in week one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be tough. Anthony Richardson is such a
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  Speaker 3: dynamic player. You know, they drafted in that high for
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  Speaker 3: a reason. And what we've seen on film, you know,
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  Speaker 3: highlights that have come out is he's doing uncanny Like
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  Speaker 3: the stuff he's.
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  Speaker 2: Doing is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: We know he's big, fast and strong and physical, so
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna be able to run the ball. Hopefully we
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  Speaker 3: can get into some disguises that'll get him off his mark.
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  Speaker 3: But more importantly, what we didn't see as much of
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  Speaker 3: last year was the pass rush. We need those guys
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  Speaker 3: up front. The guys up front on that pass rush
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  Speaker 3: led by Josh Allen, then you put Trayvon Walker, you know,
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  Speaker 3: throw him into the mix. Those guys really have to
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  Speaker 3: fire off that ball to just create that pressure to
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  Speaker 3: get him to step up. The secondary towards that big
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  Speaker 3: push last year at the end of the season with
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  Speaker 3: Jenkins and Tyson Campbell, those guys are set. It seems
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  Speaker 3: that the secondary is set and ready to go, and
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  Speaker 3: they'll be able to get in there and do their thing.
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  Speaker 3: But they'll only be as good as the pass rush
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  Speaker 3: allow them to be so I believe they're going to
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  Speaker 3: stop the run. I don't know what is going to
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  Speaker 3: happen with the whole Taylor stuff, but I believe they're
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  Speaker 3: going to stop the coach run to begin with. And
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  Speaker 3: now they have to just have that pressure to push
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  Speaker 3: Richardson off his mark and hopefully rattle him a bit.
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  Speaker 3: So the secondary which was strong, and they're showing that
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  Speaker 3: the end of the season a year ago, so they
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  Speaker 3: can do their thing and create that field position that
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  Speaker 3: the offense is gonna need.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us, and you mentioned Taylor. Jonathan Taylor
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  Speaker 1: is not available for the Colts. Give us the brief
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of why and the difference that makes for Indy
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  Speaker 1: when he's not out there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know what's going on in Indy,
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  Speaker 3: but you would think what a young quarterback. You would
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  Speaker 3: want your thoroughbred running back in the backfield to try
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  Speaker 3: to relieve him of some of his duties and take
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  Speaker 3: some pressure off of a young, inexperienced quarterback. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: JT was so good two years ago when he went
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  Speaker 3: for eighteen hundred, he threatened two thousand yards, and then
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  Speaker 3: he came back last year looked really good, but then
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  Speaker 3: he had some injuries here and there, which led to
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  Speaker 3: you know, he asks for a contract this offseason, and
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of hard to ask for a deal coming
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  Speaker 3: off of an injury plague season, which is the most
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  Speaker 3: mind boggling thing for me and all of it. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's a great talent and I believe he's worthy
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  Speaker 3: of a deal, but just to ask for it coming
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  Speaker 3: off of an injury season is a bit tough. And
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  Speaker 3: you put the organization in a position, and then you
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  Speaker 3: get to camp, you don't show up, and then you
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  Speaker 3: have a back injury. Then you have this thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: just so much drama, you know, and teams don't like drama,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And if you can avoid the drama part
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  Speaker 3: of it, just get in there showing you willing to
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  Speaker 3: work hard. You're all in and you bet on yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You have to bet on yourself at the running back position.
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  Speaker 3: You just have to bet on yourself now because the
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  Speaker 3: leverage against you is the injuries, your age and injury
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  Speaker 3: and wear and tear. But if you get out there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you take a shot. Like you did when
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  Speaker 3: you were young, You played because you love the game.
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  Speaker 3: You got money in your pocket, spend it right, save
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  Speaker 3: it accordingly, and that's gonna be okay. That's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: your nest stagg and your blanket, your buffer in the
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  Speaker 3: event you do get injured. But go out there, play hard,
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  Speaker 3: don't think about you know, don't think about the money.
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  Speaker 3: Think about playing and being the best in winning, and
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  Speaker 3: then indirectly that money will come. So hopefully jt Ben
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  Speaker 3: the talent he is, he makes it back. Just not
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  Speaker 3: week one.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: But we still got to go out there and play
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  Speaker 3: lights out defense no matter who's out there in the
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  Speaker 3: backfield for.
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  Speaker 1: The Coats Week one and week six, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Colts come back to Jacksonville. Fred Taylor with his
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  Speaker 1: final thought here, Fred, you know, just going into the season,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about the way the team is set up,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive playmakers. They've drafted a bunch of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: they brought in free agents last year, and they traded
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  Speaker 1: for Ridley and all that. Defensively, some homegrown talent, some
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  Speaker 1: free agent additions, but this is the last year before
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  Speaker 1: some big time contract things could happen. This group was
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  Speaker 1: built for this season. This is the one right because
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  Speaker 1: after this year, who knows. Ridley's contracts up after the year,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen's contracts up after the year. At some point
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  Speaker 1: you're going to figure out the quarterback situation to set
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  Speaker 1: everything else up. Ideally it would be after this year.
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  Speaker 1: This is like the last. This is what it's about
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  Speaker 1: right here before This team might not ever look the
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  Speaker 1: same again.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Most recently, the Los Angeles Rams La Rams
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  Speaker 3: took their shot, you know, and he worked out for them,
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  Speaker 3: and two years after they pretty much imploded.
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  Speaker 2: They're the youngest team in the entire NFL.
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  Speaker 3: I think at one point during training camp they had
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  Speaker 3: we talked to Sean McVay, they had thirty nine rookies
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  Speaker 3: on a ninety man roster, which is insane. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: you take your shot. You spend your money where you
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  Speaker 3: spend your money.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I sometimes I like to go and shop at Louis
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  Speaker 3: Vauton and other times I like to go and shop
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  Speaker 3: at Target. You know, I spend my money where I'm
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  Speaker 3: most comfortable. That's what the teams are doing, and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: it pans out for you know, the Jaguars organization and
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  Speaker 3: the fan base, because we would love to see it
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  Speaker 3: now more than ever. You know, and if we have
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  Speaker 3: to make that type of investment to get it now,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully that will be the endgame, then so be it,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll wait another twenty seven eight years, twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: years for another one.
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  Speaker 2: So bid. We want to taste this one, the first one.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing like it, and hopefully those guys can make
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  Speaker 3: it happen because we don't know, you know, the future
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  Speaker 3: is always the unknown. What we know now is they
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  Speaker 3: have a really solid roster that's capable of getting it done.
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  Speaker 3: They were two games away a year ago, and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: with the added pieces and the guys they brought back,
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  Speaker 3: we can get some luck on the injury side of
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  Speaker 3: things and guys can stay healthy. That will propel the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars to the championship where hopefully they can win it,
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  Speaker 3: and that would be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to visit with the Louis Vaton
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  Speaker 1: of running backs, Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I like that. I got my luggage Prime time
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  Speaker 2: say bring your luggage. I am in the bag.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 2: Fred. I'm looking forward to it always. J Pete