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Recapping the week of preparation for Wild Card matchup vs. Chargers | Week in Review: January 13 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I A. A. Bank's Friday, January and we've arrived
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Speaker 1: at the playoffs. I'm J. P. Shadrick with the best
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Speaker 1: of the week from Jaguars Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and
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Speaker 1: our social channels Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Today it's
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Speaker 1: a look ahead do the a f C Wild Card
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Speaker 1: playoff game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Let's begin this week with the best of press conferences
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Speaker 1: and locker room sound, and we begin with Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: from Thursday, his final media availability of the week. The
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Speaker 1: Jaguars had to win five in a row down the
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Speaker 1: stretch to take the division. But the city increases from here.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously this is a little different. The atmosphere
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Speaker 1: will be differently, the pace will be a bit different
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Speaker 1: than intensity. To be a little different. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just just the way it is in the postseason. So
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen a difference with the team, which is
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Speaker 1: a good thing. We just gotta you know, we just
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Speaker 1: gotta focus on our jobs. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: explain the mindset moving ahead for the team since we
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Speaker 1: came back. It's really just been next week like or
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Speaker 1: this week like, moving on to the next week and
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Speaker 1: focusing on the task at hand and realizing it's the
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Speaker 1: same thought process this week to earn another opportunity next week.
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Speaker 1: It's you just find a way to win, whatever it takes.
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Speaker 1: You know, this time of year, the games are gonna
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Speaker 1: be tight, games are gonna be close, and you just
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Speaker 1: gotta find a way to win. And we understand that,
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Speaker 1: and I think our team has really rallied around that
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Speaker 1: idea of whatever play needs to be made, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: find a way just to win the game. And I
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Speaker 1: think we've done a great job of that. Running Back
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Speaker 1: Travis e t and Junior understands what this team has
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Speaker 1: had to do the last month plus and he feels
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Speaker 1: like it can carry over. I mean, I feel like
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Speaker 1: the only difference is the title. It's a playoff game. Now,
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Speaker 1: we've been in the situations where we had to win,
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't be here in this situation, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like we're ready for to day. We prepared for that,
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Speaker 1: and we all know what's at stake, So we gotta
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Speaker 1: go out there and just put out best before it
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Speaker 1: in uh best game to see what happens. I did
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Speaker 1: wide receivers A Jones in the locker room this week said,
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Speaker 1: the playoffs are what people will remember for the long run.
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Speaker 1: The regular season is what it is in a healthy respect.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously if you take care of business there
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Speaker 1: in order to get to this moment. But here's where
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Speaker 1: it matters. If we want to keep creating the new
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Speaker 1: narrative for this team in this city and and be
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Speaker 1: the new Jack's team that we have set out to establish,
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Speaker 1: it starts with a moment like this, and what an
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Speaker 1: incredible opportunity that that we have to to show that
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Speaker 1: and display that we moved to the defense now and
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Speaker 1: outside linebacker Josh Allen was the a f C Defensive
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Speaker 1: Player of Week eight team and he's been huge in
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Speaker 1: the five game win streak to end the regular season
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Speaker 1: with multiple sacks, pressures, impactful plays, and of course, the
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Speaker 1: game winning fumble return touchdown. Last week, he explained his
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Speaker 1: late season resurgences. Be impatient. Uh, you know, I've always
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Speaker 1: worked hard. It's just then those opportunities come. You know.
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Speaker 1: I've been, you know, dialting with myself a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: I've been talking to a lot with Todd Washington from
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Speaker 1: the offensive line coach or he's somebody that I entrusted
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Speaker 1: and he's helped me out, you know, to this point.
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Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, collective of everybody doing the
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Speaker 1: right things. Me working hard, I guess, and before and
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Speaker 1: after practice and doing what I need to do, and
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Speaker 1: I ben't what I need to be. And I knew
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Speaker 1: when the moment comes, when the opportunity comes, if I
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Speaker 1: keep states, keep keep at it, you know, good things
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Speaker 1: are gonna come. And now I gotta keep on going.
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Speaker 1: The Jack's defense has come through with impactful plays down
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Speaker 1: the stretch. Of course, in middle linebacker foy Loud can
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Speaker 1: explain the mindset behind it. You know a lot of
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Speaker 1: times things are going bad or not how we plan,
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Speaker 1: but you know it's football things. All the goals you played,
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Speaker 1: we come and have time. I just love how everybody's
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Speaker 1: calling saying, you know, with that our best football and
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Speaker 1: though we're still what score down, like, if we just
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Speaker 1: start playing well, we can really flip this game turning around.
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Speaker 1: And then you just make one play and everybody feeds
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Speaker 1: off of that competence and all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 1: bigger play comes from that and then everybody just um,
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Speaker 1: you know, flowing off of that. So it's really just
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Speaker 1: the confidence to understand that, you know, we can turn
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Speaker 1: the game around while the game's still going on. Now
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Speaker 1: to defensive coordinator might called well and the Jags defensive
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Speaker 1: match up with Chargers running back Austin Ekeler. He can
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Speaker 1: be a problem in the passing game when you have
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Speaker 1: a running back that uh had over a hundred catches
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Speaker 1: that says something about him and he's a guy that
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Speaker 1: they trust and they get the ball to a bunch.
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Speaker 1: But I think it works well with him because outside
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Speaker 1: you have to pay so much attention and then that
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Speaker 1: opens up for him and the tight ends underneath. But
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Speaker 1: as the coordinator used to go out there and you
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Speaker 1: just try to understand where the matchups are and how
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Speaker 1: they try to attack you and try to you know,
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Speaker 1: hone in on that and give a guy with a
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Speaker 1: good plan safety rateon. Jenkins loved the energy from the
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Speaker 1: crowd at t i A bank Field a week ago,
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Speaker 1: and he expects nothing less this week. Oh, I expect
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Speaker 1: it to be crazier, and honestly, last game was probably
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Speaker 1: the crazy game I played in as far as the
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Speaker 1: crowd and everything that was this crazy electric duvall. Y'all
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Speaker 1: impressed me, and you're looking for it to the same
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Speaker 1: thing that this weekend. All the press conferences and locker
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Speaker 1: rooms sound available on Jaguars dot com. Let's rewind the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour radio from Monday afternoon and a review
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Speaker 1: of the week eighteen win over the Titans and a
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Speaker 1: glimpse ahead to what the Jaguars could do in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Tony was Sully and Pete Prisco are with US now
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Speaker 1: and the Jaguars are the a f C South champions.
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Speaker 1: They will host the Chargers in a wild card playoff game.
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Speaker 1: And Tony locked it so many weeks ago and it
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Speaker 1: came true. Congrats. That drives Pete crazy that I locked
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Speaker 1: it and worked because you didn't really believe it. There's
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Speaker 1: no way you did it. No, you didn't. You did
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Speaker 1: it for clicks and hits and people is talking about
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Speaker 1: you because that's who you are. That's not who I am.
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Speaker 1: You know, I believe that this team was playing good football.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at the five game losing Street,
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Speaker 1: I could argue that they should have won every get
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Speaker 1: one of those games. But even if they win three
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Speaker 1: of them, they'd have been the best team by far
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Speaker 1: in the n f C. In that couple of the
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Speaker 1: injuries that the Titans and the way they were playing,
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Speaker 1: I felt like this, you know, the Jags, if they
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Speaker 1: could run the table. They ended up not having to
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Speaker 1: run the table. Um they didn't lose the one that
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Speaker 1: Detroit that I thought might hurt them, But I didn't
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Speaker 1: believe that this team was good enough to make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Did you just say they would have been the best
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Speaker 1: team in the a f C AFC South? Okay, Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: because I know you've gotten carried away over here recently.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know what you were where you were going
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Speaker 1: with that, But it's your sounded like you said best
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Speaker 1: team in the a f C. Did he not South South?
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Speaker 1: That's what? Okay? And they would have and they probably
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Speaker 1: would have been a higher seed if they want a
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Speaker 1: couple of those games. Yeah, absolutely, I mean they you know,
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Speaker 1: it works out how it works out, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't think. I mean if you said, take a step
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Speaker 1: back and you look at the top three seeds, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you ever surpassed them. You know, Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: Buffalo in Kansas City, they are the class right now DFC,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we have to go. We have to
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Speaker 1: go beat those type of teams. We have to make
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Speaker 1: it now. You have to make a run in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs where you get the credibility that you're considered one
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Speaker 1: of those teams that you have to do it more
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Speaker 1: than one year at the same time. Um So, I
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Speaker 1: think if you look at the a f C playoffs
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Speaker 1: right now, I think it's it's the Chiefs, the Bills,
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Speaker 1: and in the in the Bengals, and then there's a
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Speaker 1: gap between everyone else. I think everyone else is trying
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Speaker 1: to fight their way into that top three. And this
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Speaker 1: is a great opportunity for the Jaguars to do something.
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Speaker 1: You know what, Jacksonville is not unlike the Bengals a
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Speaker 1: year ago. If that's you know, maybe you can maybe
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Speaker 1: you can get hot and get a run. And now
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Speaker 1: the Bengals are around now and they're gonna be around now.
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Speaker 1: And I've said that before. I said Jackson was gonna
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Speaker 1: be around for a long time now with with Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence as the quarterback. So maybe this can be their
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Speaker 1: year to put themselves on the map. And you know,
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Speaker 1: go upset somebody, you know, go on the road and
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Speaker 1: do that when this week and then go upset somebody,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden people start talking about
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Speaker 1: you like the Bengals are. Now. I think that's that's
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Speaker 1: the big that's the big task right now. Look, every year,
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Speaker 1: somebody comes from no where. Every year. It's too easy
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Speaker 1: to say that both conferences look very top heavy. You know,
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Speaker 1: you look at the end of the NDFC is the
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Speaker 1: Eagles and and who it's for those two and this
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Speaker 1: is three teams and so. But don't you think somebody's
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Speaker 1: gonna find a way to get hot and make a
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Speaker 1: little run somebody. That's what usually happens to me. It's usually,
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Speaker 1: it's it's very rarely goes chalk. We have the you know,
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Speaker 1: one and two seeds in both conferences in in the
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Speaker 1: in the title games. And last year you said it right,
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Speaker 1: it was it was the it was the Cincinnati Bengals. Um.
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Speaker 1: The year before that, it was Tampa Bay. We made
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Speaker 1: a run and from the wild card and end up
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Speaker 1: winning the whole thing. So it's right there for him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you always say, and this is what's been
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Speaker 1: said about the in the NFL playoffs for years and
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Speaker 1: years and years, just get into the tournament because then
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Speaker 1: it's the hottest teams, the team is playing the best,
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Speaker 1: it's the hottest quarterback, where defense that gets on a
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Speaker 1: run and starts doing stuff that's special. And you don't
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Speaker 1: get to have that opportunity unless you win your division
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Speaker 1: or give one of those wild card spots. The Jacks
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Speaker 1: won the division, they're gonna have a home playoff game,
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Speaker 1: you know. And now now it's a new season. Nothing matters,
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Speaker 1: the records, none of it matters, and it's it's win
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Speaker 1: or go home type of scenario. And that it's a
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Speaker 1: great opportunity for a team with the Jacks because they
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Speaker 1: should be playing, you know, pressure free. Okay, this is
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Speaker 1: like we're in this thing. We're not here, We're not
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Speaker 1: just happy to be here. We're here to win the
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Speaker 1: whole thing. And let's let him go hang out and
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Speaker 1: see what we we can do. Jaguars Happy at our Radio.
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Speaker 1: Monday air's four to six pm on tinton x l
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Speaker 1: and YouTube. Let's move down to a preview of my
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Speaker 1: weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred
9:44
Speaker 1: Taylor and his thoughts about the running back matchup in
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Speaker 1: this week's game. Austin is a good back. You know,
9:50
Speaker 1: he's a good back. He's just outside of my you know,
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Speaker 1: top five, but he is a solid back that you
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Speaker 1: know he's gonna be there. You know, he's he's straight downhill,
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Speaker 1: you know, north and south runner. Obviously, he does a
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Speaker 1: great job around the end zone. He's has a gang
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Speaker 1: of touchdowns almost each and every season. Uh. Not a
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Speaker 1: flashy back. You know, if I just looked at him
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Speaker 1: for flash I wouldn't say I like his style at all.
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Speaker 1: But I like his production, you know. I like that
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Speaker 1: he can catch the ball really well. He's a high
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Speaker 1: target back out of the backfield, whether it's outside running slants,
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Speaker 1: flat routes, you know, isolation ro outside of the backfield checkdowns.
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Speaker 1: He consistently catches the ball well. Travis, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: he's dynamic. He has burst, extreme burst, uh fast. I
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Speaker 1: didn't think he was that fast until you know, he
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Speaker 1: broke that long when a couple of weeks ago and
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Speaker 1: he really got out of the gate. We don't see
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Speaker 1: Etler with a lot of long runs, but he like
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Speaker 1: he is steady and consistent in the beauty about what
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Speaker 1: Austin has going on over there. He has two really
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Speaker 1: good receivers that isn't allowed for the defense to put
11:02
Speaker 1: that eighth guy in the box. You gotta honor Keenan
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Speaker 1: Allen and Mike Williams. Those guys are are are tremendous
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Speaker 1: threats in the past game and that's what makes Austin
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Speaker 1: you know, go. So yeah, it'll be good to see
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Speaker 1: both of these guys get out there. Hopefully our guy
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Speaker 1: out due and bounced back from a week ago, you
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Speaker 1: know that. I'm sure he's uh anxious and ready to
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Speaker 1: put up some big numbers because last week the Titans
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Speaker 1: did a really good job against our run game. But
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, ape charges hadn't been good against the run,
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Speaker 1: So hopefully we can take advantage of that. Alright, Fred,
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Speaker 1: final thought whether here, the atmosphere last week was huge.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's a playoff game now, It's only the fifth
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Speaker 1: playoff game in Jacksonville. Ever, a lot of the playoff games,
11:48
Speaker 1: of course, have been away. So you gotta take advantage
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Speaker 1: of this environment. Manage your emotions. It's every mistake is
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Speaker 1: magnified in the playoffs, you know how it is. You've
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Speaker 1: you've been in these games before, Fred, So what can
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Speaker 1: we expect in the atmosphere and the nerves and the
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Speaker 1: jitters in this game? You know, the atmosphere was amazing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, I pulled up maybe two hours before a
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Speaker 1: kickoff and the parking lot was packed and loaded. And
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Speaker 1: that's football. Like, that is football, and that's what where
12:17
Speaker 1: you know, what I had grown to be accustomed to,
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Speaker 1: you know earlier in my career. That that's football. That's
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Speaker 1: the beauty of of of football in Jacksonville. That prime
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Speaker 1: time atmosphere, it was so good man. Uh make me dizzy,
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Speaker 1: it is what I say. Looking around, you get dizzy
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Speaker 1: looking in the crowd. You know, it's so many fans.
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Speaker 1: It's like the sea of you know till that was
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Speaker 1: beautiful last the till out. It was to see a
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Speaker 1: till you got the black and the like. It was
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Speaker 1: so amazing. JP. I just get excited. You know, it
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Speaker 1: makes my adrenaline pump. And you look up in the
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Speaker 1: stands and you know they're kind of going up and
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Speaker 1: down and kind of waving. It's dizzy and as they say,
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Speaker 1: and it was loud. Man, it was just the best
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Speaker 1: atmosphere that I've seen since it's been called t I
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Speaker 1: a bank you know when it was ever Bank Field
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Speaker 1: in all Tell Stadium. The good days. Uh now it's
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Speaker 1: good days. Have a lot to hear about, and I
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Speaker 1: hope everybody shows up and make it happens again. The
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Speaker 1: full conversation with Freddie t available Saturday on the Official
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Speaker 1: powerful national anthem performance with Grammy Award winning musicians Susan
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Speaker 1: Tadeski and Derek Truck's Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungee
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Speaker 1: explains what Doug Peterson's impact has done for the team.
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Speaker 1: I An Eagle of Westwood One Radio and CBS Sports
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Speaker 1: The national anthem, of course, performed this week by Jacksonville's
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Speaker 1: own Derek Trucks and Susan Twdeski of the Grammy Award
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Speaker 1: winning two Dusky Trucks Band. Their season ticket members with
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Speaker 1: the Jags and the Jaguars are two and oh. When
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Speaker 1: Susan performs the anthem, it will be the first time
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Speaker 1: though they'll perform the Nann Shittle anthem together. They joined
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Speaker 1: us after rehearsals Thursday on The Doug Peterson Show. How
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Speaker 1: long does it take you, guys to come up with
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Speaker 1: the process of trying to come up with something new
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Speaker 1: and blending the two of you together for the anthem?
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Speaker 1: You know, it usually comes together pretty quick. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you get the idea. I listened to some different versions
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't find any just guitar and voice, So
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Speaker 1: you have to just find some hybrid and then it's
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Speaker 1: just you know, following her, following her voice, and uh,
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Speaker 1: figuring out what works. You know, you you stumble along
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Speaker 1: the way. Luckily you're not in front of seventy people
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Speaker 1: would when you're rehearsing right right, right right, spending all
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Speaker 1: week with Derek Truck, Susan Tudeski with us from Tadeski
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Speaker 1: Truck's band will have the anthem Saturday night here at
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Speaker 1: the Bank. All right, So Jack's fans season ticket holders,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the epic run to the division title. We're
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Speaker 1: all floored by it. It's incredible. But Derek, I mean
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Speaker 1: just seeing him finish this thing the other night was incredible.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what a way to go out. And and
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Speaker 1: it was interesting because it's it's been a long time
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Speaker 1: since you as a fan, and you can see it
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Speaker 1: in the players where there's just a sense of, um,
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Speaker 1: just give us the ball back, we'll probably take it
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Speaker 1: down the field or something's gonna give. Like there wasn't
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Speaker 1: always a lot of hope. It was if you had
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Speaker 1: the lead, it was almost like, uh, let's hold on.
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Speaker 1: And it's a different spirit, Like it feels like the
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Speaker 1: team is in a different headspace. And I remember sneaking
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Speaker 1: down to a practice this year preseason and it was
16:29
Speaker 1: a different feeling right out of the gate training camp,
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Speaker 1: training camp, and you could just tell it was a
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Speaker 1: different energy. Um, and you know it was it was
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Speaker 1: up and down here, but it seemed to never get
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Speaker 1: off the rails entirely. And we were three and seven, right,
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Speaker 1: incredible to be here, but you know, it always felt like, uh,
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Speaker 1: it was possible, and it's it's fun to watch it happen.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you got uh, you got a coach, you
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Speaker 1: got a quarterback, you gotta take it to the show.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty good. I like our chances, So you
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Speaker 1: were missing in the coach. I mean that makes a
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Speaker 1: huge difference when you're gonna like Doug Peterson around. When
17:02
Speaker 1: I heard that we were getting Doug Peterson, I was like,
17:04
Speaker 1: we're going to the super Bowl. Everyone's laughing at me,
17:07
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what do you about? As like, our
17:09
Speaker 1: boys need to be led, they need a great coach,
17:12
Speaker 1: and we got a great coach. This is the first
17:14
Speaker 1: time I don't have to worry about if we're gonna
17:16
Speaker 1: have good clock management or if they're gonna make good calls,
17:19
Speaker 1: because in the past, I'm sorry, I'm just I'm gonna
17:22
Speaker 1: say it, it was not good. But this is a
17:25
Speaker 1: real coach with a beautiful attitude. He's gonna he's gonna
17:29
Speaker 1: get these kids ready. They're gonna go in and they're
17:31
Speaker 1: gonna surprise people. And I'm telling you, I would not
17:34
Speaker 1: be shocked if we are a f C championship. All right,
17:37
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. I'm walking it down. I'm I mean,
17:42
Speaker 1: anything could happen once you get to the playoffs. That's
17:45
Speaker 1: the hardest part. I grew up in New England, I've
17:47
Speaker 1: seen it all. I grew up in the Groven years.
17:49
Speaker 1: Come on, I think we could do. I really do.
17:52
Speaker 1: I think that anything can happen once you get this far,
17:55
Speaker 1: you know, and you you're we have the momentum. Come on,
17:58
Speaker 1: let's go before conversation available on the archive of the
18:02
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show, and we'll hear final thoughts from the
18:05
Speaker 1: Jags head coach coming up. I An Eagle has been
18:08
Speaker 1: with CBS Sports as a play by play announcer since
18:11
Speaker 1: but he's called Thursday Night football on Westwood One for
18:14
Speaker 1: the last fifteen seasons. He has the call of Saturday's
18:18
Speaker 1: game on Westwood one Radio, and we talked this week
18:21
Speaker 1: about the future of the quarterback position in the a
18:24
Speaker 1: f C for at least the next decade. Yeah, and
18:27
Speaker 1: that's why you have to get it right when you
18:30
Speaker 1: have a high pick in the draft and their quarterbacks
18:33
Speaker 1: on the board. If you don't get it right, it
18:35
Speaker 1: can set your franchise back many years. The Jets are
18:38
Speaker 1: feeling this right now. The Chargers in Jacksonville are very
18:43
Speaker 1: confident in the picks that they made and the way
18:46
Speaker 1: that it's played out for three seasons. In l A's case,
18:50
Speaker 1: two seasons. In Jacksonville's case, Yeah, I think you're right.
18:53
Speaker 1: I think we might look back on this game many,
18:55
Speaker 1: many years from now and say, oh, yeah, that was
18:58
Speaker 1: the first one, because there have been in multiple over
19:02
Speaker 1: the course of the next decade, and I expect it,
19:05
Speaker 1: barring obviously any kind of serious injury for these two guys.
19:09
Speaker 1: They are more of the classic quarterbacks compared to guys
19:13
Speaker 1: that run and take big hits. Lamar Jackson the one
19:17
Speaker 1: that's sitting this one out. We saw it with Philadelphia
19:20
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz was a big hit that that sent
19:23
Speaker 1: him to i R and allowed Nick Foles to emerge
19:27
Speaker 1: as the guy in Philadelphia to win the Super Bowl.
19:30
Speaker 1: Andrew luck whose career came to a shocking halt because
19:34
Speaker 1: I think he got concerned about his life after football
19:38
Speaker 1: after all of those big hits. These two guys are
19:40
Speaker 1: more of the classic qbs. Doesn't mean they won't run.
19:43
Speaker 1: We've seen it with Trevor Lawrence. He'll run if necessary
19:46
Speaker 1: and he doesn't mind dishing out some punishment if need be.
19:49
Speaker 1: But you know, the comparison is what JP. It's always
19:52
Speaker 1: going to be the Brady and Manning incarnation and what
19:58
Speaker 1: came of that that first layoff meeting and then the
20:01
Speaker 1: fact that those guys were winning championships regularly between the
20:05
Speaker 1: two of them. I think that Trevor is really gifted,
20:09
Speaker 1: and he looks the part, he acts the part. We
20:12
Speaker 1: just needed to see him play the part. And now
20:14
Speaker 1: we've seen it. No longer isn't theater of the mind.
20:18
Speaker 1: We've seen it with Herbert Man. It was the first game,
20:21
Speaker 1: literally the first game he played in when he had
20:24
Speaker 1: to step in for Tyrod Taylor at the very last
20:26
Speaker 1: moment against Kansas City, that we all saw, Oh whoa,
20:30
Speaker 1: that's that's what an NFL franchise quarterback is supposed to
20:33
Speaker 1: look like. Big, strong, ridiculous arm composed. Nothing seems to
20:39
Speaker 1: rattle him. He's the prototype for what we're looking for
20:43
Speaker 1: at that position, the rocket arm, all the physical tools,
20:47
Speaker 1: and he's done everything that they hoped that he would
20:51
Speaker 1: do and then some he didn't have. All his weapons
20:55
Speaker 1: is here and here we are again leading up to
20:57
Speaker 1: this game, not exactly sure what's gonna happen with Mike Williams.
21:01
Speaker 1: So Herbert's dealt with it before and he's just relentless
21:06
Speaker 1: in his pursuit of being the best guy doing this
21:09
Speaker 1: job in the NFL. The Conversation with Iron Eagle available
21:12
Speaker 1: on the Official Jaguars podcast network starting Saturday now at
21:16
Speaker 1: Jack's Drivetime. Wednesday morning, Tony Dungee is the analyst this
21:20
Speaker 1: week on NBC Sports and the Hall of Fame Coach
21:23
Speaker 1: joined Brian Sexton and John Osier to discuss the Jags
21:26
Speaker 1: resurgence and the man at the helm, head coach Doug Peterson. Well,
21:29
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I have a vote on
21:31
Speaker 1: the AP Awards, and I voted for Doug for Coach
21:35
Speaker 1: of the Year because I think what he has done.
21:38
Speaker 1: I knew he would do well, and I knew he
21:40
Speaker 1: had transfuse energy into this franchise and get them going,
21:44
Speaker 1: but I thought it would be a couple of years
21:46
Speaker 1: to really get it. And they clicked in after about
21:49
Speaker 1: eight weeks. Uh, it's amazing. We had the Hall of
21:53
Speaker 1: Fame game for NBC we're broadcasting, and I was down
21:57
Speaker 1: on the field before the game, just kind of watching,
21:59
Speaker 1: taking notes, and Josh Allen came up to me and
22:03
Speaker 1: he said, we are going to be on your show.
22:06
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on Sunday Night Football by the end
22:08
Speaker 1: of the year. We're a good team. People don't know it,
22:10
Speaker 1: but I promise you we're gonna be there. And we
22:12
Speaker 1: talked about that and he was right. Uh. He said
22:15
Speaker 1: he could feel the energy. He thought coach Peterson was
22:17
Speaker 1: the right person for them, and I felt that from
22:21
Speaker 1: everybody there. Guys were so excited that it was genuine
22:25
Speaker 1: and they've done it. Coach. I'm not sure how well
22:28
Speaker 1: you know Doug, but you know and working with you
22:31
Speaker 1: for the seven or eight years we worked together, and
22:33
Speaker 1: they're working with Doug. So many similarities to me in
22:36
Speaker 1: terms of approach, in terms of the calmness, in terms
22:39
Speaker 1: of keeping things in an even keel. I'm wondering if
22:42
Speaker 1: you know him that well and if you see some
22:44
Speaker 1: of those similarities, I really do. I I got to
22:47
Speaker 1: know Doug their Super Bowl year in Philadelphia. I was
22:51
Speaker 1: working for NBC. We had the game, and my assignment
22:55
Speaker 1: for the two weeks leading up to that was to
22:57
Speaker 1: track the Eagles and report on him. So I was
23:00
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia for a week and I saw the same
23:03
Speaker 1: type of thing. I saw how the players talked about him.
23:06
Speaker 1: I saw their response to adversity. And that year, if
23:10
Speaker 1: you'll remember, Nick Foles had to take over um for
23:14
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Wentz got hurt, and everybody said, oh, the
23:18
Speaker 1: season's over. We had a great run, but now it's
23:20
Speaker 1: not gonna work. And none of the players felt that.
23:23
Speaker 1: Everyone felt Coach Peterson will figure this out and that calmness,
23:28
Speaker 1: in that sense of we're gonna be okay, that's that's
23:30
Speaker 1: what he transmits. Coach, this team has an incredible number
23:34
Speaker 1: of free agents that contribute for it. And when you
23:37
Speaker 1: were with the Colts, it was not a free agent
23:39
Speaker 1: based team. But I'm wondering if you could speak to
23:41
Speaker 1: how difficult it is for a coach and for a
23:43
Speaker 1: team to come together the way this team has. All
23:45
Speaker 1: three wide receivers are all three of their leading receivers
23:48
Speaker 1: are new this year. Aluikan's knew this year, Brandon Sheriff's
23:51
Speaker 1: knew this year. That's a lot to come together in
23:54
Speaker 1: one off season. And that's why I voted for for
23:56
Speaker 1: Doug for Coach of the Year, because that is a
23:59
Speaker 1: difficult task. Usually that's a two or three year process.
24:03
Speaker 1: But he's molded these guys, he's gotten them, gotten them going,
24:07
Speaker 1: and gotten them together, and it's fantastic. I actually had
24:11
Speaker 1: uh phone calls with the two coordinators yesterday and today,
24:16
Speaker 1: and both of them, Pressed and Mike call Well talked
24:19
Speaker 1: about just how these guys have stepped in, and he
24:22
Speaker 1: also said something very interesting to me. He said, we
24:25
Speaker 1: didn't go after that big luminary, that twenty million dollar star.
24:29
Speaker 1: We went after guys who were team players. We went
24:32
Speaker 1: after guys who were hard workers. We went after good teammates.
24:36
Speaker 1: And that's one thing too, I think, evaluating who you
24:39
Speaker 1: want and who you're gonna bring into the mix, and
24:43
Speaker 1: they brought some outstanding young people in there. I happen
24:47
Speaker 1: to know a lot about the Clemson program because I'm
24:50
Speaker 1: very close with coach Swaine, had been around them, so
24:53
Speaker 1: when they drafted Trevor and Travis E t N, there
24:56
Speaker 1: was no doubt in my mind the kind of people
24:59
Speaker 1: they were getting. And I think that's been the hallmark
25:02
Speaker 1: of this this building process. Coach, you had a team
25:04
Speaker 1: in Tampa that sort of came out of nowhere, and
25:07
Speaker 1: UH and I made the playoffs and the city was electric,
25:10
Speaker 1: probably much the way Jacksonville is right now. What's Doug's
25:14
Speaker 1: task in UH getting this team to sort of thrive
25:18
Speaker 1: on that feeling but not have it overwhelmed them is
25:22
Speaker 1: that a thing. It really is, and you do want
25:24
Speaker 1: to build on that and build on that energy and emotion.
25:27
Speaker 1: I remember the year we we made the playoffs in
25:30
Speaker 1: nine seven for the first time in Tampa, and our
25:34
Speaker 1: owners came over on that Monday and said, Hey, we've
25:37
Speaker 1: got people buying tickets at the stadium. Do you want
25:39
Speaker 1: to go over and say hi to them? And we're
25:42
Speaker 1: gonna pass out some doughnuts and juice. So I went
25:45
Speaker 1: over about nine o'clock in the morning expecting to see
25:48
Speaker 1: a line that twenty five people. The line was all
25:50
Speaker 1: the way around the stadium. And that's the kind of
25:54
Speaker 1: energy and we saw it. Um you know, we we
25:58
Speaker 1: saw it Saturday in Jacksonville, and I just think it's
26:01
Speaker 1: gonna be an outstanding atmosphere. You want to embrace that.
26:05
Speaker 1: As Jaguars players and coaches. You wanna know, Hey, our
26:09
Speaker 1: town is behind us, our fans are behind us, but
26:13
Speaker 1: you still have to say, this is football, and we've
26:16
Speaker 1: got to go out and just execute just like we're
26:19
Speaker 1: doing the regular season. Yes, the stakes are higher, Yes
26:21
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be energized, but you know what, we've got
26:24
Speaker 1: to do our jobs the same way and not get
26:26
Speaker 1: too high coach. You mentioned having a feel for Trevor
26:29
Speaker 1: before he came into the league. I'm just wandering your
26:31
Speaker 1: thoughts on him. You're with Peyton for a long time.
26:33
Speaker 1: I'm not asking you from comparison there, but what kind
26:36
Speaker 1: of franchise quarterback in this kid? Be very someone mindset? Um,
26:41
Speaker 1: I see a lot of those same qualities. A guy
26:44
Speaker 1: who galvanizes his teammates. Everybody likes him, everybody wants to
26:49
Speaker 1: be around him. But the thing that I think the
26:52
Speaker 1: biggest quality that Trevor and Peyton have is they hold
26:56
Speaker 1: themselves to a high standard. Uh, Trevor Lawrence us to
27:00
Speaker 1: play well. When he makes mistakes, he takes it personally,
27:03
Speaker 1: so he's working hard, and when you're quarterback, is one
27:07
Speaker 1: of the hardest working players then everybody else since is
27:10
Speaker 1: that they get in the same mindset and he can
27:13
Speaker 1: hold them to a high standard. So I do see
27:16
Speaker 1: a lot of similarities. Jack's Drive Time airs Monday, Wednesday
27:20
Speaker 1: and Thursday on Jaguars dot Com and Jack's social media.
27:23
Speaker 1: Let's close the week with Jack's head coach Doug Peterson
27:26
Speaker 1: from his weekly radio show Thursday night and his final
27:29
Speaker 1: thoughts on the a f C Wild card playoff game.
27:33
Speaker 1: Final thought whether here, Doug, we mentioned the rally to
27:36
Speaker 1: get back and win the division, but now it's in
27:38
Speaker 1: the tournament. That's all in the rear view. It's about
27:41
Speaker 1: the matchup week to week. Is the Jaguars football team
27:44
Speaker 1: ready for this moment this week? And what do you
27:46
Speaker 1: expect on Saturday night? The team is ready, you know,
27:49
Speaker 1: we we've been I keep telling the guys that they've been.
27:51
Speaker 1: They've been preparing themselves all season for moments like this,
27:54
Speaker 1: and we're kind of built for it. Um. You know,
27:57
Speaker 1: the preparation they've had these last last seven eight games
28:00
Speaker 1: has really kind of put us in a position to, uh,
28:02
Speaker 1: to understand the magnitude of games like this. And and
28:05
Speaker 1: I tell you this, one of the things I see
28:07
Speaker 1: with our team too is there's no they don't get
28:09
Speaker 1: really high and they don't get really low. They just
28:11
Speaker 1: kind of stay right in the middle. And and um,
28:14
Speaker 1: they do a great job of that. You know. Emotionally,
28:16
Speaker 1: they just kind of focus on their jobs and and
28:19
Speaker 1: and that's what we asked them to do. And so
28:21
Speaker 1: they're ready. Um, they'll be excited, uh, you know, to
28:24
Speaker 1: have a home playoff game. You know, here in Jacksonville
28:26
Speaker 1: is a big thing. You've been in the playoffs before.
28:28
Speaker 1: There's nothing better, is it? There's nothing better this time
28:31
Speaker 1: of year. Um, it's very special, you know, especially we
28:34
Speaker 1: can host a playoff game and and then um, you know,
28:36
Speaker 1: see what you can do and listen, it's a you know,
28:39
Speaker 1: everything that must win from here on out, and and
28:41
Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a hard thing. But you know,
28:43
Speaker 1: our guys are ready to go. But Doug Peterson Show
28:45
Speaker 1: Thursdays at five on the Jaguars Radio Network that will
28:49
Speaker 1: do it for this week. The number five seed Los
28:51
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers and the number four seed Jacksonville Jaguars at
28:55
Speaker 1: t i A A bank Field. The game is presented
28:57
Speaker 1: by dailies. It's nicer here. We're on the air in
29:01
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at five o'clock Saturday with the public tailgate show.
29:04
Speaker 1: Then at seven o'clock it's countdown to kickoff on the
29:07
Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio Network. The opening kickoff for the Chargers and
29:10
Speaker 1: Jaguars matchup set for eight fifteen Eastern Time. Enjoy the
29:14
Speaker 1: weekend and let's make it a memorable environment Saturday night.
29:18
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. I'm J. P. Shadrick. We'll catch you
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