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Fred Taylor on Potential of Offensive Line and Keys to a Week One Victory | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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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. Week one is finally here Fred,
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Dolphins. The off season, all the hype,
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  Speaker 1: all the talk, Well it's almost over. We're talking right now.
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: How are you AJP? Listen? How long do we have
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  Speaker 2: to wait for football? From Super Bowl to now? Six
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  Speaker 2: months or five six months or something? Listen. I found
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  Speaker 2: a new I found a better love this off season
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  Speaker 2: for hockey. My Florida Panthers won. I'm starting to learn
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  Speaker 2: and like baseball a bit more. Still haven't been to
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  Speaker 2: a game, but I've made a lot of friends throughout
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  Speaker 2: my travels with the Pivot that play MLB that are
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  Speaker 2: inviting me to a game. So I think I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go check out a Yankees game. But still is not football.
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  Speaker 2: It is not football. The Olympics were great this offseason,
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  Speaker 2: which kind of filled that boyd a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: here we are Opening day, Jaguars Dolphins, interstate rival, and
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  Speaker 2: I pray this time around that the team from the
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  Speaker 2: North winds because last weekend what my Gators did versus
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  Speaker 2: another team from the South so embarrassing. So I got
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  Speaker 2: one more shot at it.
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  Speaker 1: Fred. When you think of the Miami Dolphins, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I think a lot of people think of is
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  Speaker 1: the just incredible speed that they have on offense in
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  Speaker 1: so many places. So how do you slow this team down?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it starts with the four down lineman, that new
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  Speaker 2: look front, the interior. You know you added Eric Armstead,
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  Speaker 2: you went out and you paid Josh Allen Hines. You
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  Speaker 2: paid them a ton of money, so expectations are high.
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  Speaker 2: You believe you're improved there. Josh can carry over what
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  Speaker 2: he did a year ago, what he closed in close
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  Speaker 2: to what was it fifteen sacks? How many sacks? I
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  Speaker 2: forget how many sacks you had, but he had a
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and have personal record. So I believe you know
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  Speaker 2: that four down lineman. They're gonna have to show that. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we have to get after tour. If we can get
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  Speaker 2: after tour and bang him around, that's gonna slow everything
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  Speaker 2: else down. He doesn't have the strongest arm in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, he's on the bottom half
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  Speaker 2: of weak arms. So don't allow him to get back
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  Speaker 2: set up so he can launch the ball to those
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  Speaker 2: guys because they have an Olympic four y one hundred
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  Speaker 2: style type offense at receiver at the receiver position, and
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  Speaker 2: then when you look at the backfield with Raheem and Ashan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they got some guys that can really go
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  Speaker 2: from that position as well. So you really have to
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  Speaker 2: get after the quarterback, slow them down and on the
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  Speaker 2: flip side offensively sustaining a run game. If you keep
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  Speaker 2: them off the field by running the ball efficiently and effectively,
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  Speaker 2: then you give yourself a better chance that slowing that big,
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  Speaker 2: high powered offense down.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us and yeah, let's touch on the
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  Speaker 1: Shaguars offense. If you're gonna run the ball and run
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  Speaker 1: the clock and keep them on the sideline, it starts
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  Speaker 1: on that offensive line. And that's been a focus of
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. Of course. You know we'll find out pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: Have they done enough in the interior for those short
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  Speaker 1: yardage situations to protect the pocket from the middle in
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  Speaker 1: front of Trevor. This is where it starts for the
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  Speaker 1: Jags this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always gonna start with the offensive line. You
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  Speaker 2: know that group a year ago, I thought they had
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  Speaker 2: played decently. Ezra Cleveland, you know, coming in there, he
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  Speaker 2: did well. I believe this year. If they stay healthy,
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  Speaker 2: this will be the best offensive line group that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen out of the Jaguars in the past several years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they have a nice collection of young guys
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  Speaker 2: and veteran guys, bringing in Mitch Morris this past offseason
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  Speaker 2: as an anchor there in the middle. I really believe
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  Speaker 2: this offensive line and can show that they've been the
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  Speaker 2: best maybe since you know Boselli and Big Sercy. It's
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  Speaker 2: been that long since we've had some dogs up front.
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  Speaker 2: And the running game. It goes back sometimes teams weigh
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line success on the run game and how
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  Speaker 2: many sacks they give up. I think it goes a
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  Speaker 2: bit further than that because it also comes down to
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  Speaker 2: mental errors in there. You don't want to play. I
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of mistakes from that group, our communication bus.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe with the veteran leaderships they have in
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  Speaker 2: the center, and then you kind of branch that out
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  Speaker 2: to the outside there, they're gonna play well. Brett.
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  Speaker 1: How about this you mentioned too, but the quarterback matchup
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  Speaker 1: as a whole. Both quarterbacks got paid this offseason to
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  Speaker 1: a tongue of I love.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they've been half a billion out there, so
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Billion, a lot of money on the field, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the matchup with a lot of people will look
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  Speaker 1: forward to and and then the matchup. This is different
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  Speaker 1: styles and approaches. Doug Peterson has been at this for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. It's one of Super Bowl Mike McDaniel,
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  Speaker 1: up and coming young guy with a flashy offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are two different dynamics here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so JP. But you have one who's
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  Speaker 2: won the big game. You know, Doug's won a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: so you know he's leading an experience. Mike. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 2: He's just a great person. Man. I just like to
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  Speaker 2: sit there with him and just hear him talk. Like
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  Speaker 2: his mind, the way his mind works, I think is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: And that from a from just a normal conversation standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: it carries over to what he is as a coach,
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  Speaker 2: how creative he is as an offensive mine and uh
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  Speaker 2: he these younger coaches, you'll see Doug likes to go
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  Speaker 2: for it on fourth down. These young guys, they don't
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  Speaker 2: flinch either. So I think that's the only similarity we'll
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  Speaker 2: see these guys, uh, is that they're very aggressive. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just all that. But I hope that experience outweighs youth
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  Speaker 2: in this one and Jaguars come back home with a victory.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're off and running. Fred. We'll do this again
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  Speaker 1: next week before the Browns game, and we'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you then. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's what I want to hear the commentator say
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  Speaker 2: about Travissey. He's often running. That'll make more that'll make
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  Speaker 2: my early season prediction, which I'll just say Jaguars win.
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  Speaker 2: I won't put a score to it, but obviously I'm
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  Speaker 2: the most optimistic person in the world. So Jaguars win.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it in postgame