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What has changed since Week 5? | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, December 29 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jets Drive to with Jon Hooshers and Bryan
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Speaker 1: sex It Sexton. James Drive starts right now, JA takes
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Speaker 1: the day one more time to two teaople shake hands.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it from Men Life Stadium. What what
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Speaker 1: I love about you guys right now is that's what
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Speaker 1: it takes. It takes a little sacrifice. You talked about
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Speaker 1: it way back in the off season. What are you
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Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice for this football team. I'm so proud
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Speaker 1: of this group. You hang them, You're hanging there and
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Speaker 1: your battle You guys, you gotta listen. You're doing the
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Speaker 1: right thing at the right time of the season. Great. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: You're gonna continue to having a football team, right Alrighty
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Speaker 1: christ is President, all say we'll go. We've got two
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Speaker 1: games left in our division. Your mind is right, get
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Speaker 1: ready to put the work in, put the time in,
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Speaker 1: and let's finish this thing the right way. And the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars are in birth place in the division. They've done it.
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Speaker 1: They have walked down the two type. Good morning and
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Speaker 1: welcome you to Jack's Drive Time on a Thursday morning.
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton and John Owes you with you as we
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Speaker 1: get set for big game again standings not necessarily, but
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars, this has the field of a big game,
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Speaker 1: and John talking to guys in the locker room yesterday,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't convince them that nothing was on the line
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, even though apparently nothing is on the line
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Well, there are small things on the line, meaning,
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Speaker 1: depending on the outcome of the Cowboys Titans game tonight,
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Speaker 1: winning on Sunday could give the Jaguars that tie advantage
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Speaker 1: at the end of the game. I mean at the
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Speaker 1: end of season, meaning if if they tie the Titans,
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Speaker 1: they get in the wild card. Uh, it's sort of
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Speaker 1: an insurance policy. And the wild card scenario is not
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Speaker 1: that extreme. Uh. All the things you need to happen
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Speaker 1: for the Gator wild Card, if they would happen to
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Speaker 1: lose Tennessee, are a sort of favored to happen. So now,
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Speaker 1: usually that doesn't work out that way. But it's not
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Speaker 1: a third It's not like you're playing college football where
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Speaker 1: you got Division three teams again, you know so, But
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Speaker 1: even beyond that, UM, I think Doug Peterson has done
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Speaker 1: a great job of realizing you have three games where
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Speaker 1: you have an energy and you have a focus, and
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Speaker 1: you've got a young team stepping each week in the
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Speaker 1: right way and the way he wants it. I don't
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Speaker 1: think he wants them to get out of step, and
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Speaker 1: I think he's done a nice job of selling that.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go right into big things. And included
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Speaker 1: in this is the answer to a question that you
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Speaker 1: asked me yesterday if I knew, hold on, here we go, hey,
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Speaker 1: Doug's decision. It was yesterday in Nashville. The story was
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Speaker 1: that Mike Brabil was declaring eight players, many of them
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Speaker 1: starters out already and a couple of guys are doubtful.
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Speaker 1: So their strategy there is to rest their players and
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Speaker 1: get them healthy and ready for the season finale. Doug
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Speaker 1: was asked about his strategy and he said his decision
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Speaker 1: was every game is significant. They're never a meaningless game,
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Speaker 1: never ever, ever ever. Um, you play, you play to
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Speaker 1: win every game, UM and and UM. You know the
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Speaker 1: only way I rest players as if they're hurt and
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Speaker 1: can't go. Big thing too, And here's your answer. The
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have not beaten the Colts, the Titans, and the
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Speaker 1: Texans all in the same season since two thousand and ten,
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Speaker 1: twelve years since they have beaten every other team in
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Speaker 1: the same season. That is preposterous, ludicrous, ridiculous. The South matters.
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Speaker 1: As you guys know, I don't put a lot of
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Speaker 1: stock in those types of things. We still have to
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Speaker 1: go play and play good football team, you know, on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: So you know, I just gotta I just gotta make
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Speaker 1: sure our guys are in the right you know, mind
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Speaker 1: space this week and and ready for this football uh,
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Speaker 1: this football team, because I mean you just just put
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Speaker 1: on the tape and really what they've done here in
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Speaker 1: the last month they're playing. They're playing pretty good, even
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Speaker 1: though they've lost a couple of close ones. But I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's something that I think the coaches may
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Speaker 1: talk about but but I don't. And finally, bring it on,
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Speaker 1: Doug was asked about being the hunted instead of the hunter.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting in the first place in the a f
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Speaker 1: C South. They're the team that the Titans are shooting
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Speaker 1: for at the season finale to win the a f
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Speaker 1: C South, and how will they handle this young team,
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Speaker 1: third youngest in the NFL. As if today the pressure
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Speaker 1: of being the hunted, you kind of want it, you know, honestly,
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Speaker 1: you want it. You want to see how we're gonna respond. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, coaches and players and and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it just starts. It starts in practice, starts today. But
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Speaker 1: you know, you worked hard to get in this position
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Speaker 1: and and a lot of ups and downs, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you guys have seen the sort of the incremental progress
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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. And you know that's
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Speaker 1: why you that's why you play these games and each
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Speaker 1: each game matters and so um, yeah, you want to see,
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Speaker 1: you know, how the guys will respond in moments like this.
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Speaker 1: And so let's got a big thing too in the
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Speaker 1: ANFC South, because we were talking about it yesterday. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, the only time the Jaguars have ever
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Speaker 1: won the South, they were swept by the Titans. And
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Speaker 1: after the season and after the game the season finale
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Speaker 1: in Nashville that year, the Titans were crowing about who
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Speaker 1: the best team in the a f C South really was, Uh,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. You just want to get the division, but
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Speaker 1: you still want to make a statement about, hey, we're
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Speaker 1: here to play, and the Jaguars in the division have
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Speaker 1: not for most of the eighteen years twenty years now
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Speaker 1: that the division has been together. Yeah, and they have
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Speaker 1: a chance. If you win the South, you're the best team.
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Speaker 1: The Jaggars are the best team in the South and
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Speaker 1: seventeen because they went to the a FC Championship game
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Speaker 1: and they want it. But the Titans, the Jaguars that
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Speaker 1: season gave them room to beat their chest, much like
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Speaker 1: in ninety the Jaguars beat you know, uh, gave the
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Speaker 1: Titans room to beat their chest and beat him in
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Speaker 1: the in the postseason. Um, if you beat if you
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Speaker 1: win the next two games as the Jaguars, you not
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Speaker 1: only win the division, you sweep the Nemesis. And you what,
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Speaker 1: you finished four and two, and I think that gives
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Speaker 1: you the best record in the division, in the division,
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Speaker 1: meaning there four and two, and then the Titans in
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Speaker 1: necenarily would be three and three, every to be below.
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Speaker 1: So you, amazingly quickly within about a half a season,
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Speaker 1: have a chance to turn this thing. Uh. I think
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Speaker 1: these things are important to Doug Peterson, meaning a chance
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Speaker 1: to finish with a winning record. He mentioned it right
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Speaker 1: after the Jets game. I a chance to go into
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Speaker 1: the postseason with five wins in a row as the
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Speaker 1: legitimate hot team, A chance to win the South a
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Speaker 1: chance to sweep you know, all these things. Mentally, Uh
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Speaker 1: does it mean it won't be good next year if
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Speaker 1: they don't do it, No, but it it gives you.
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Speaker 1: I think he said this in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: When you're trying to change culture some of those things
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Speaker 1: somewhere that gets in the water and the players, we're
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Speaker 1: the we're the guys. We're doing that and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go to a big thing one, So I'll do the
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Speaker 1: Segway big thing. Um, yeah, radio professional that broadcast school
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Speaker 1: is really paying off. And what was the big thing
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Speaker 1: one decision? It will and it is remarkable how Vrabels move,
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Speaker 1: which I think for them is the right move because
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Speaker 1: they're so beat up. If if the situation is reversed,
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Speaker 1: I would say Doug absolutely needed to do that because
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Speaker 1: they are a beat up team trying desperately. Now I
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Speaker 1: doubt they'll beat Dallas with this sort of line up,
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Speaker 1: So they're gonna have six six games in a row loss.
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Speaker 1: Hail Mary, that was your Remember that this is a
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Speaker 1: hail Mary for the Titans. They are a team sliding.
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Speaker 1: They have one shot at this. They to come down
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Speaker 1: here healthy give it their best shot and somehow turn
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Speaker 1: a season that's lost for them into a division title season.
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Speaker 1: It's their only hope. It's it's a move that in
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Speaker 1: a way smacks of desperation. Um, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it's very Abel saying, uh, doing a Belichick thing, what
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Speaker 1: is my best chance? I don't care people think, what
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Speaker 1: is my best chance? A good move by very well.
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Speaker 1: You know. I can recall walking down the hallway with
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Speaker 1: Doug after his news conference on the Wednesday before the
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Speaker 1: first Texans game. So that was said when they were
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Speaker 1: two and two and just talking about what was there
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Speaker 1: in the division. Right, this is a year where you're balancing,
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Speaker 1: you know, building the culture, a brand new coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: a brand new program, and yet the division is wide open.
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Speaker 1: There was no dominant team at that time. Jaguars looked
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Speaker 1: as good as any and look at how it's unfolded. Right.
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Speaker 1: You went from just trying to instill that winning mindset,
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Speaker 1: the way that you work, the way that you play,
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Speaker 1: to now being in in the position at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year, I mean to really hit a home run.
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Speaker 1: You win the division in your first year. When you're
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Speaker 1: just talking about Remember in the spring, they were just
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Speaker 1: talking about fixing the toxic culture that was here last year.
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Speaker 1: What was here talking about guys needed to heal well, Hell,
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're about to win the division, or at
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Speaker 1: least they're in the position to be about to win
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Speaker 1: the division. And at uh, I know the way ahead
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Speaker 1: of ourselves best what we do in these shows at
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Speaker 1: nine and eight, um, you get in as a team
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Speaker 1: with the winning record, with five wins in a row
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season, much like in nineties six. UM,
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Speaker 1: as we went on from ninety six, as people who
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Speaker 1: analyzed it, it didn't feel like a nine and seven
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Speaker 1: season five years later when you talked about it, it
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Speaker 1: felt like the beginning ing of something and a team
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Speaker 1: that had started slow and showed at the end what
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Speaker 1: it really was. And I think that sort of thing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Doug's got a nice feel for history and perception and
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Speaker 1: how that sort of thing matters. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: why right after the game the other night, when people
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Speaker 1: talked about it was resting or whatever, I forget what
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Speaker 1: the topic of the question was, but he immediately said,
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Speaker 1: we get chance fishing the winning record that matters to him,
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Speaker 1: he said, he might as well have shouted it. I
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Speaker 1: mean it was that loud of a statement, you know
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Speaker 1: the fact that you said going nine and eight would
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Speaker 1: be big um, but you couldn't miss how important it
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Speaker 1: was to him. So yeah, that's where the Jaguars find themselves,
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Speaker 1: and we find ourselves into position to take our first
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Speaker 1: because you matter, and let's go around the locker room
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Speaker 1: provides you with some of the big stories that we're
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Speaker 1: making news in there yesterday. And Juwan Taylor is up
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Speaker 1: first and he talked about being in first place in
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Speaker 1: the a f C South. Those business man you know,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep going out and doing our job and
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Speaker 1: getting better every week. Um, you know, we just can't
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Speaker 1: get comfortable. Uh you know because teams still you got
11:47
Speaker 1: the target on you and when you were number one,
11:48
Speaker 1: I feel like so I usually gotta keep going your
11:50
Speaker 1: job and keep getting better every week. You know, what
11:52
Speaker 1: I really like about Juan Taylor is that he's playing
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Speaker 1: good football, but also he's willing to step up and
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Speaker 1: take on the leadership role now with Cam gone. He's
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Speaker 1: standing in front of his locker waiting for the media
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Speaker 1: to come. He was never that guy. He was always
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Speaker 1: sort of the quiet guy in the background. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: always been, uh, very good kid. He's he's always had
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Speaker 1: the right attitude for an offensive lineman. Of Um, the
12:16
Speaker 1: nature of that position is is that you get criticized,
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Speaker 1: often unfairly. It's the hardest position to play in terms
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Speaker 1: of fans understanding, uh, whether somebody's playing well or not.
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Speaker 1: And he's taking a lot of crisis, but he has
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Speaker 1: never let that affect how he treats people, which is,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think I would handle that that
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Speaker 1: well as a young person. So I've always thought that
12:42
Speaker 1: he did a great job with that, and I've always
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Speaker 1: thought that it spoke to his maturity and being the
12:47
Speaker 1: kind of guy that you want to be around and
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Speaker 1: that one. Okay, Next Christian Kirk on the Jaguars and
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Speaker 1: their focus, and not surprisingly it's on Sunday's game against
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Speaker 1: the Texans and not next Sunday's game against the Titans.
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Speaker 1: This really week out of time. You know, you don't
13:16
Speaker 1: get there skipping through weeks. You know, you've got to
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Speaker 1: go through all the games that you know are out
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Speaker 1: in front of you. And like you said, any given Sunday, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and it's also about, you know, the
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Speaker 1: type of team you want to portare yourself as a
13:28
Speaker 1: type of team you want to be, and you know,
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Speaker 1: for us, it's established that winning culture. So you know
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Speaker 1: that that's what it's gonna be for us until we
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Speaker 1: can get into the playoffs. Christian Kirk yesterday was named
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Speaker 1: the two thousand, twenty two media good guy, which UH
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Speaker 1: is it is a little bit of a hockey name
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Speaker 1: for what I consider a very important award. UH basically
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Speaker 1: means the guy who, in tough times is willing to
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Speaker 1: stand and talk to the media, be helpful, do a
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Speaker 1: part of the job that people assume is like a given,
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Speaker 1: and many players don't like to do it. The reason
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Speaker 1: it's significant for Christian Kurk to win that is this
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Speaker 1: is the locker room of good guys, and UH so
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Speaker 1: to be the best at that and the I guess
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Speaker 1: most professional on that front of a locker room of
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Speaker 1: very very professional people. Credit to him and appreciate christ
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Speaker 1: and all year for that. And he's also the ringleader
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Speaker 1: of three really good guys at the top of the
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Speaker 1: receiving group, which is interesting enough because the Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: three guys who were all in range of career highs.
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk has already said all three of his career
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Speaker 1: highs receptions, yards, and touchdowns. Uh Z Jones has the
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Speaker 1: most catches in most yards. He needs three touchdowns for
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Speaker 1: the most touchdowns in the next two games have an
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Speaker 1: ingram the same situation. Most catches most yards needs three
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Speaker 1: touchdowns in that category as well. And we heard something
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Speaker 1: yesterday that since n the Jaguars would become the only
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Speaker 1: team to have three acquisitions in free ag agency all
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Speaker 1: gain more than seven hundred yards in the same season,
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Speaker 1: right which they've the Cowboys had that, I think they'd
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Speaker 1: be the first one to do that and possibly could
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Speaker 1: be the only one to ever go over eight hundred yards.
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Speaker 1: And think about if you had Travis et into that,
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Speaker 1: who was not an acquisition but was out on the
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Speaker 1: roster last year and almost yards from scrimmage. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: it's uh and adding really into that, which you can
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Speaker 1: do in the next year, it's got a chance to
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Speaker 1: be potent for a long time. And really, if you
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Speaker 1: think about it, the three receivers Kirk started hot Um
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Speaker 1: the other two to me, Brian feel like thousand yard players.
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Speaker 1: In the second half of the season, they played like
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Speaker 1: that has been a trio and if you throw e
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Speaker 1: t in there, it's been a foursome that are all
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Speaker 1: thousand yard players and it's pretty impressive. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: do and with the quarterbackers playing well, they're a very
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Speaker 1: dangerous offense when they get rolling. Let's turn to the defense.
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Speaker 1: One of their best players to want smooth, who leads
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Speaker 1: the team, er is tied for the lead with Sacks
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Speaker 1: is gone for the years, you know, with the torn
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Speaker 1: achilles tendon that he suffered on that Thursday night in
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Speaker 1: New York, that means someone else has got to step
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Speaker 1: into the fire. What we've seen Art and Key step
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Speaker 1: up and do it with Trayvon Walker down? Could it
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Speaker 1: be calebon Chase on the former number one pick, talked
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Speaker 1: yesterday about taking advantage of the opportunity that has been
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Speaker 1: offered to him. I'm excited most definitely. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, we gotta keep out, we gotta keep buck composed,
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Speaker 1: we gotta play this game and the ultimate team goal.
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Speaker 1: Let's you know what I'm saying. To get the wind
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Speaker 1: throughout the week, we can't get anymore catching anywhere else.
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Speaker 1: So it's definitely exciting, Uh, just the opportunity that I'm giving.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm just happy to be back
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Speaker 1: out of the field. Man. Just something like I said,
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Speaker 1: it could have been much worse than what it is.
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Speaker 1: So to have a mine injury like that and to
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Speaker 1: be touching the field again, it's exciting. Would you call
16:48
Speaker 1: it a measure of depth that the Jaguars have lost
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson and have a second round pick in Trayvon
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Speaker 1: walk Our pardoning Walker Little to step into the lineup,
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Speaker 1: and he played well last week. By the way, Now
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Speaker 1: you lose to want smooth, but here's Caleb and Chason
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Speaker 1: who's underperformed. Get it, former first round pick. But it's
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Speaker 1: not like you're grabbing a guy off of your practice
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Speaker 1: squad and elevating him. You've got a guy with all
17:09
Speaker 1: the physical attributes to be able to play the position
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Speaker 1: at a high level. Well, I thought all all preseason. Remember,
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Speaker 1: the the drumbeat was no depth, no depth, no depth,
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Speaker 1: and I really didn't buy into that. I looked at
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Speaker 1: the offensive line and saw an offensive line head Shatley
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Speaker 1: and Walker Little, and thought, how many more guys are
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Speaker 1: they gonna need? Uh? I thought the wide receiver corps,
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Speaker 1: you know, has proven to be pretty deep with what
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Speaker 1: they want to do. You know, you have Marvin Jones
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Speaker 1: as as the next guy in. I like having Marvin
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Speaker 1: Jones as your third guy production wise, Yeah, James Robinson.
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Speaker 1: The beginning the season in ETN, I thought they had
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Speaker 1: some depth there. I think they're at the they're probably
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Speaker 1: at the outer edges of it. Um and I do
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Speaker 1: think they're deep along the defensive line in terms of numbers,
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Speaker 1: and again I think they're probably at their outer edge
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Speaker 1: of being able to withstand losses and not feel a loss.
18:12
Speaker 1: I think it's something about that Calebin Chason. I don't
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Speaker 1: know him that well because he hasn't been a guy
18:17
Speaker 1: because of the profile that you really interviewed a lot
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Speaker 1: um what's impressive to me about him. Sometimes first round
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Speaker 1: picks who don't work out and so far he hasn't
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Speaker 1: worked out to his potential sort of disappear and brood
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Speaker 1: and you don't get the feeling that they're into it anymore.
18:35
Speaker 1: Whatever has happened with this kid, he's not that Uh.
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Speaker 1: The first clip today after the you know on the
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Speaker 1: side as as as broadcast continued to benefits, was Caleb
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Speaker 1: and Chason celebrating in front of the camera. Clearly into
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Speaker 1: the victory the other night. You wouldn't blame Cale and
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Speaker 1: Jason after three difficult years to just sort of come
18:56
Speaker 1: in and be doing his job and not be but
18:59
Speaker 1: he is stayed in touch with the team, clearly has
19:03
Speaker 1: embraced his role. Uh. I would anticipate him playing well.
19:09
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's going to be impact guy,
19:11
Speaker 1: but I think he will be fine in places Smith.
19:13
Speaker 1: I think he'll see a minimal drop off. But just
19:16
Speaker 1: like with obvisive tackle, I don't think it's gonna be
19:18
Speaker 1: a disaster. Hey. By the way, both of those guys
19:21
Speaker 1: Walker Little and Caleb and Jason are from Houston. In fact,
19:24
Speaker 1: they play high school football together at the Episcopal School
19:26
Speaker 1: of Houston. So there's a motivation for them to have
19:29
Speaker 1: a big game on Sunday. If the IFC South title
19:32
Speaker 1: isn't enough, playing in front of friends and family at
19:34
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium certainly will be a draw the Texans the
19:38
Speaker 1: biggest of those draws for these Jaguars. Andre Cisco shares
19:41
Speaker 1: his thoughts, Yeah, you understand, it's gonna be a battle
19:44
Speaker 1: division battle and it's the same time, the same thing
19:46
Speaker 1: every time, you know, tough fight. And so that's what
19:48
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to. Was a long car fall game,
19:51
Speaker 1: um and come out with the win. Then a day
19:53
Speaker 1: like you said, we lost in Week five to him,
19:54
Speaker 1: so you know that's in the back of our head,
19:56
Speaker 1: but we focus on, you know, taking a one step
19:58
Speaker 1: forward this weekend and they and then our way for
20:01
Speaker 1: a lot of these players. John Week five seems like
20:03
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago. Young players like Andre Cisco, who as
20:06
Speaker 1: the season has gone along, has really become and and
20:09
Speaker 1: other players as well, but he in particular has become
20:11
Speaker 1: a very instrumental part of this defense, and those two
20:14
Speaker 1: weeks that he was out with the shoulder, they missed him. Yeah,
20:18
Speaker 1: there was definitely a vibe in the locker room. I'm
20:21
Speaker 1: not gonna say it was something that they were beating
20:24
Speaker 1: their chest out, uh say, we're gonna prove it. But
20:28
Speaker 1: they feel like they're a different team than they played
20:30
Speaker 1: the Texans in in Week five, and I think there's
20:33
Speaker 1: definitely a feeling of they not want to talk it
20:38
Speaker 1: up too much before the game, but I feeling of
20:40
Speaker 1: wanting to go out and show, Okay, we were here
20:43
Speaker 1: in week five, now we're here, and you know, I'll
20:47
Speaker 1: save what I think about the game for the headline.
20:49
Speaker 1: So Okay, back to you, Brian, thank you very much,
20:52
Speaker 1: and we'll leave it at that. When we return here
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Speaker 1: We call it he three John. Yours is Travis EPM. Well,
21:39
Speaker 1: he will be really important to the game plan because
21:44
Speaker 1: I think they need to run with with a covered
21:48
Speaker 1: two defense. They are about keeping anything in front of you.
21:52
Speaker 1: You need to run against this team to have a
21:55
Speaker 1: chance to set up anything that you want to do
21:57
Speaker 1: in play action, and it's still very hard to do. Uh.
22:01
Speaker 1: He won't. He won't fumble Bran because because it's been
22:07
Speaker 1: a topic understandably so with Travis. Um. I mean, he
22:11
Speaker 1: needs to work out. I can't quite figure out why
22:15
Speaker 1: it happens so much. There doesn't seem to be a trend. Uh.
22:20
Speaker 1: He seems to be focused on it, and I think
22:22
Speaker 1: he will get it. Uh And I don't think it
22:25
Speaker 1: will happen this week, and he might get back to
22:34
Speaker 1: the breakaway guy that he was for a while, meaning
22:37
Speaker 1: he's been productive the last two games and has mattered
22:45
Speaker 1: the last two games. But I don't know that he
22:47
Speaker 1: has felt the way that he did in the four
22:50
Speaker 1: or five games were ripping off four yard runs. Yeah,
22:53
Speaker 1: and that was special. And he's got that in him,
22:56
Speaker 1: and I think the Texans defense could present opportunity need
23:00
Speaker 1: to do that, because my guess is the Texans defense
23:02
Speaker 1: be very concerned about stopping his passing game at this point.
23:06
Speaker 1: Guarding against that, you might see him break those off.
23:09
Speaker 1: And I still say, when this offense is functioning at
23:12
Speaker 1: its highest level, E. T n Is breaking off one
23:15
Speaker 1: or two of those an easy field flipper. It's what
23:18
Speaker 1: makes him special. He's got that in him. I think
23:20
Speaker 1: we'll see it this week at least well. And the
23:22
Speaker 1: Texans have the worst run defense in the league. They
23:25
Speaker 1: really have struggled against the run this year. I think
23:27
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks they've given up an average
23:30
Speaker 1: about eight yards rushing per game. So there's a big
23:32
Speaker 1: opportunity for him there if he can find that whole.
23:35
Speaker 1: What's amazing is when you watch him run, you know,
23:37
Speaker 1: you've seen the big runs and then you've seen the
23:39
Speaker 1: two yard runs and the shorter runs. He's averaging almost
23:42
Speaker 1: five yards per carre. That is not a small number.
23:44
Speaker 1: It's it's it's impressive. It's down a little bit from
23:48
Speaker 1: when he first sort of burst onto the scene, which
23:50
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. He was averaging six point eight or
23:53
Speaker 1: something at some point, which is absurd. You can't do
23:55
Speaker 1: that in the NFL. Um but he's Uh. It's been
24:02
Speaker 1: interesting to watch how he's developed and how they have
24:05
Speaker 1: used him, and I think there will be more on
24:10
Speaker 1: that front next year. And my guess is the coaches
24:13
Speaker 1: after this season will look and see everything that he
24:15
Speaker 1: did well and exactly how to use him. And a
24:18
Speaker 1: great job so far, but it just seems to me
24:21
Speaker 1: that there is is more consistency there h to be
24:26
Speaker 1: gotten out of him, and I'm I'm excited to see
24:29
Speaker 1: how they game plan him. And he's been remarkable for
24:32
Speaker 1: what he's been through in a huge part of this team.
24:35
Speaker 1: I mean, it's interesting that there is so much more
24:37
Speaker 1: there alright. Mine is Josh Allen, and I say Josh
24:42
Speaker 1: Allen will have his best game since the Buffalo game
24:44
Speaker 1: here in November last year where that Josh Allen got
24:48
Speaker 1: the other at Josh Allen all day long. It's zacks,
24:51
Speaker 1: he had hits, he had an interception. He will have
24:54
Speaker 1: his best game he just feels like he's ready to
24:57
Speaker 1: have one of those days. He's been frustrated in the
25:00
Speaker 1: locker room all season, not that you see it from
25:03
Speaker 1: him all that much, but in you know, more private
25:06
Speaker 1: moments you can just it's got that grimace on his
25:08
Speaker 1: face because he knows that he hasn't played up to
25:10
Speaker 1: the standard that he expects to play too. So I
25:12
Speaker 1: say that comes on Sunday, he won't miss the opportunity
25:17
Speaker 1: to help his team. And that's the part about this
25:20
Speaker 1: that has gotten him the most is he knows that
25:22
Speaker 1: if he had had bigger games along the route of
25:25
Speaker 1: the road there in that five game losing streak, that
25:29
Speaker 1: he might have helped his team more. He won't miss
25:30
Speaker 1: the chance to help his team this week, and he
25:33
Speaker 1: might score a touchdown this week. I just think, you know,
25:35
Speaker 1: it just feels like it's a balloon that's ready to
25:38
Speaker 1: burst and he's gonna come out on the other side
25:40
Speaker 1: of this. I just feel a game changing play from
25:43
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on Sunday. Look, Larry Tunsil is a very
25:46
Speaker 1: good left tackle, but you can trade on Walker back
25:48
Speaker 1: and you can move Josh Allen around a bit um
25:51
Speaker 1: the other side. Titis Howard's miss practiced this week. This
25:54
Speaker 1: is a an anemic offense from the Texans, and now
26:01
Speaker 1: they've lost Damon Pierce, he's on injured reserve. I think
26:04
Speaker 1: this just sets up to be the kind of game
26:05
Speaker 1: where Josh Allen and Trayvon Walker can get after the quarterback.
26:09
Speaker 1: And Josh is such an interesting guy to me because, again,
26:12
Speaker 1: much like Jowan Taylor we talked about, different players have
26:15
Speaker 1: been criticized over the years for the teams they haven't won. Uh.
26:18
Speaker 1: Josh being criticized this year and has gone through a lot,
26:22
Speaker 1: and yet you still never get any sort of vibe
26:29
Speaker 1: that he's not the absolute leader of the defense, doesn't
26:33
Speaker 1: absolutely embrace that role. Players look to him on the
26:38
Speaker 1: on the race Sean Jenkins interception against Dallas if if
26:42
Speaker 1: you rewatch that, Josh Allen is right with them and celebrating,
26:48
Speaker 1: which you'd expect on a play with that to celebrate.
26:50
Speaker 1: But every time you look at the sideline, whenever a
26:54
Speaker 1: defensive player makes a player offensive makes a play, Josh
26:57
Speaker 1: is first guy there. He's is into it is important
27:00
Speaker 1: in terms of what this team is about. UH. And
27:04
Speaker 1: again credit to him because in a tough year, that
27:08
Speaker 1: kind of thing can get sideways and uh on this team,
27:12
Speaker 1: there's something about the players on this team. Uh, they
27:15
Speaker 1: have kind of kept everything going in the right direction.
27:17
Speaker 1: I think Josh a big part of that. It just
27:18
Speaker 1: feels like it's time for him to come through with
27:20
Speaker 1: a big game, and I know he's ready for it
27:22
Speaker 1: talking to him in the locker room this week. He
27:24
Speaker 1: is certainly primed and ready to go. We'll take a
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Speaker 1: educational and career goals. But now it's a matter of,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, just letting those guys go. There's there's a
28:25
Speaker 1: lot of talent there. You're seeing Davon, You're seeing Roy
28:28
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks have a really good push in
28:29
Speaker 1: the interior in the pocket. And then you know, you've
28:33
Speaker 1: seen Arden, You've seen Trayvon and unfortunately smooth you know,
28:38
Speaker 1: coming off and Josh coming off the edge and making
28:40
Speaker 1: plays or you know, t e stunts things of that nature.
28:44
Speaker 1: And I just think it's just it's just allowed them
28:46
Speaker 1: to kind of free up and just play a tax
28:48
Speaker 1: style of football of front. Well, you know, k c
28:53
Speaker 1: will get more Calebon, we'll get more, We'll get more
28:56
Speaker 1: time obviously, you know, Josh Arden Um, get Trayvon back,
29:01
Speaker 1: you know, optimistic of that. You know. So we've got
29:06
Speaker 1: you know, we've got those four guys that can and
29:09
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to you know, fill that role. Following
29:12
Speaker 1: up on the conversation about Josh Allen and earlier we
29:15
Speaker 1: were talking about Caleb and Jason really the last couple
29:17
Speaker 1: of weeks that interior or three, Roy Roberts and Harris
29:20
Speaker 1: who had a couple of big plays on Thursday Night Football,
29:22
Speaker 1: Devon Hamilton's Adam Gotsis when he's been in there. They're also,
29:26
Speaker 1: by the way, getting fully fought Kasi back this week,
29:28
Speaker 1: so it's good to see this defensive line with a
29:32
Speaker 1: little bit of steam heading into the final two games. Yeah,
29:34
Speaker 1: things are you know, Uh, things are coming together. Uh,
29:40
Speaker 1: and it feels like it's it's getting better. It sounds
29:43
Speaker 1: almost absurd to say that because you lost Smooth, but
29:47
Speaker 1: generally speaking, you have to withstand an injury or two
29:50
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're not gonna get to the super Bowl,
29:53
Speaker 1: playoffs whatever. Uh, completely clean. So again, and I think
30:00
Speaker 1: they've lost Smooth, They've lost a set. Griffin, BArch and uh,
30:06
Speaker 1: camera all all important, but that level of loss, you know,
30:13
Speaker 1: I think you're supposed to be able to overcome. Uh,
30:16
Speaker 1: particularly think on the defensive line, losing one guys is
30:20
Speaker 1: important as Smooth is. I think they can withstand it
30:23
Speaker 1: because these other guys are are playing well and the
30:28
Speaker 1: water is rising the boats, if you will. And by
30:30
Speaker 1: the way, it's worth mentioning that the Jaguars have been
30:33
Speaker 1: the healthiest team in football this year in terms of
30:36
Speaker 1: fewest losses of starts by starters. Right, They've had the
30:41
Speaker 1: fewest games lost to injury by starters this team has had,
30:45
Speaker 1: so they're relatively healthy as they get set for this
30:47
Speaker 1: final two game run. And it brings us to Monday's
30:55
Speaker 1: headlines right now, John, what's gone snap steady, which which
31:01
Speaker 1: makes no sense except that they're gonna snap this losing
31:05
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna they're gonna snap this losing streak
31:08
Speaker 1: to the Texans because they're starting to get steady, meaning
31:14
Speaker 1: this team now, I think they're gonna win in Houston,
31:19
Speaker 1: a solid game. I would think something ish, uh, I
31:24
Speaker 1: expect to feel okay about it about the seven minute
31:28
Speaker 1: mark of the fourth quarter. That sort of game they do.
31:31
Speaker 1: That that would be two in a row of games
31:34
Speaker 1: where you didn't need cardiac moments to come back, and
31:38
Speaker 1: it would feel like a team that is finding itself,
31:42
Speaker 1: learning how to win, learning how to put teams away,
31:44
Speaker 1: and getting ready for that final uh, very big game
31:48
Speaker 1: at t I Bank next week. And by the way,
31:49
Speaker 1: there's been a season of breaking streaks, whether it's soon
31:52
Speaker 1: was twenty straight losses to NFC teams, and they hadn't
31:55
Speaker 1: won on the road in three years and had one
31:57
Speaker 1: back to back games in three years. They've done that
32:00
Speaker 1: a lot. This season, I'm going with clash with the Titans.
32:04
Speaker 1: Jaguars will win. Not that the wind sets up the
32:07
Speaker 1: clash with the Titans, it's already there, but everyone's focus
32:11
Speaker 1: is on that season finale here against the Titans on
32:15
Speaker 1: either January the seventh or the eighth, and we'll find
32:18
Speaker 1: out on Monday, you know, whether it's prime time or
32:20
Speaker 1: whether it's Saturday or Sunday. Um. But finally we get
32:23
Speaker 1: to the clash with the Titans be big weight it should. Yeah,
32:27
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun and I go back again.
32:29
Speaker 1: We talked in June, we talked in July and August
32:33
Speaker 1: about meaningful games around Thanksgiving, not knowing, especially not when
32:38
Speaker 1: they were two and six, that we would be talking
32:40
Speaker 1: about this well into January. And yet we're almost there.
32:45
Speaker 1: And the cool thing for him is they've played their
32:48
Speaker 1: way into it against good teams. Uh. And that's why
32:53
Speaker 1: every bath things is important to go in this game,
32:55
Speaker 1: even though it's not technically important, and your quarterback is
32:57
Speaker 1: playing at a very high level and that is biggest
33:01
Speaker 1: reason for excitement in Jacksonville right now. That'll do it
33:04
Speaker 1: for our program. We will be back with you on
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Speaker 1: Monday to recap the Texans game and of course start
33:10
Speaker 1: previewing the clash with the Titans four Jags Drive time
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