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Best of Week 17 ahead of rematch vs. Texans | Jaguars Week in Review: December 30 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Week Interview podcast presented by
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  Speaker 1: t I A Bank, and it's Friday, December thirty. It's
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  Speaker 1: Week seventeen in the National Football League. I'm J. P.
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  Speaker 1: Shadrick with the best of the week from Jags Radio,
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com, and all our social channels Jaguars Twitter, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube. We have reaction to the move into first
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  Speaker 1: place and look ahead to this week's game against the Texans,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, a peak forward to the winner take all
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  Speaker 1: showdown against the Titans and Week A teen. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: begin with last week's results. The Jaguars beat the Jets
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football. The Titans then lost to the
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  Speaker 1: Texans on Christmas Eve. That all moved the Jaguars and
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  Speaker 1: the first place in the a f C South, and
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  Speaker 1: we discussed it all Monday afternoon on Jaguars Happy Our Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Priscoe and Tony BASSELLI happy Monday, and the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: are in first place in the division. Pete, They've done it.
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  Speaker 1: They have walked down the Tennessee Titans. It's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta, hey, I gotta give Tony Boselli credit. He
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  Speaker 1: called it a while ago, Okay, I mean I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it was gonna happen, and uh, I get you. Look,
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  Speaker 1: he's been wrong many, many, many, many times, but we
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  Speaker 1: gotta give him credit for that one because he was
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  Speaker 1: right about that one. Pete. I've never been wrong, you
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  Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, kind of like your your draft predictions
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  Speaker 1: and uh, picking quarterbacks in the first round. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been wrong. Yeah. I don't think I've ever been wrong
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  Speaker 1: in the first Yeah, all been wrong? Yeah, Christian Ponder, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, the Gates them all though, that's fair. Yeah. No, Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the Jags are playing good football. And in this league,
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  Speaker 1: we have a good head coach and you have a
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. It covers a lot of sins and head
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  Speaker 1: coaches is great. He's been great all year in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: He's an outstanding playing caller, and the quarterback is playing
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  Speaker 1: like a top five quarterback. I mean, he's that good
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  Speaker 1: right now, and and every what what happens when your
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  Speaker 1: quarterback is playing at that high level? Everyone a rallies
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  Speaker 1: around you, but everyone else gets better. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this team is doing. And this is it's the it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a it's not a great football team, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a good football team right now. It's a good
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  Speaker 1: football team in this league where there's not very many
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  Speaker 1: great teams. This year, there's more parody than ever, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like. And you have a Tennessee Titan team that's
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna win again. They're not very good.
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  Speaker 1: They're beat up, beat the hell quarterback playing a backup quarterback. Look,
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  Speaker 1: jacksonll has no business not winning in the division now none.
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  Speaker 1: It's stairs. It should be theirs. If they don't win it,
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  Speaker 1: it's the curse of the Titans again. Period. If I
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  Speaker 1: were to tell you, I told you eight weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: that you have to beat Davis Mills and Malick Willis.
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  Speaker 1: Willis almost had Millie Henry the old Ford State quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but Malik Willis to be to go to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, laughed at me, Yeah, yeah, what if? But
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  Speaker 1: but think about it, though, Okay, let's just say for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of the argument, Lamar Jackson's if he when
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  Speaker 1: he's coming back, you don't know when he's coming back yet,
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  Speaker 1: or if he'll stay in when he comes back. What
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  Speaker 1: if you you have to beat Davis Mills, Malick Willis
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  Speaker 1: and then Tyler Huntley in the first round of the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are you serious with that? So? Look, the
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  Speaker 1: Texans are playing better. I got I give love you
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  Speaker 1: Smith credit. His team is playing better. There are playing tougher,
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  Speaker 1: harder they were. The Titans are bad right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bad team. But that's not gonna be an easy
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  Speaker 1: game this week. Here's the question. You don't need it,
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  Speaker 1: You really don't. The only reason you would need that
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  Speaker 1: is in the chance that there was a tie between
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee and Jacksonville. That's the only way you would need
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  Speaker 1: that game, and Jacksonville ever had a tie. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't. You're right about the overall
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  Speaker 1: record to get to the playoffs, but I think this
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  Speaker 1: game is important to stay hot. I agree from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I play, I go, you gotta go play.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good enough to rest people. No, you gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go win the game. The steam beat you before.
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  Speaker 1: You're better than they are, and you asked it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: playing well and he had. He's a very good defensive.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna keep it low scoring, he's gonna keep it
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  Speaker 1: tight um. But this is a it's a big opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: like because to me, it's it's not this game doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter as much of the playoffs outside some like crazy
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  Speaker 1: stuff for the why guard possibly, but what it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: It establishes going in the next year, who's the best
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  Speaker 1: team in the division? Like you made you win these
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  Speaker 1: next two and you basically tell the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: division like, hey played for second place because we are
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  Speaker 1: the best team in this division with the best quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: we got the best head coach. We'll add more, will
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  Speaker 1: add more talented offseason. You make a statement, and the
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  Speaker 1: statement needs to be made. You beat the text and
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  Speaker 1: you beat the Titan. Jaguars Happy Hour on Monday air's
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  Speaker 1: four to six pm on Tension x l a M,
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com and the Jaguars social media channels Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and Facebook and YouTube. Now let's hear from the quarterback Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in his weekly press conference, discussed the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: offense so far. They're ranked sixth in the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: total offense entering week seventeen, and he was asked if
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  Speaker 1: this is the offense and the play that he envisioned
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season. You obviously see yourself having success
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  Speaker 1: and doing well and um, you know, being the player
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  Speaker 1: that I know that I could be, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, obviously took a little a longer maybe
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  Speaker 1: than I wanted at times, and some setbacks and all
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  Speaker 1: those things, but I mean it all kind of shaped
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  Speaker 1: into the player I'm becoming. And that's the thing. We
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  Speaker 1: can't act like we've arrived though, because we we we
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  Speaker 1: still haven't clinched anything. We still haven't made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have two games left to to continue
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  Speaker 1: to prove who we are and to put one ft
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  Speaker 1: in front of the next and just keep stacking these games.
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  Speaker 1: So we can't look too far ahead and say this
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  Speaker 1: is the team we are now. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: to do it every week. You're only as good as
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  Speaker 1: what you can do every Sunday. So I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: really for us, It's just about being consistent, continuing to
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  Speaker 1: do this and that's with great teams win win these games.
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  Speaker 1: Games that you gotta win, you win them. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to become as a great team. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we're on our way. But um, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep doing this consistently. And I gotta keep doing it
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  Speaker 1: too as a as the quarterback, um, and as a
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  Speaker 1: player on this team. Like it's all about consistency. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've played, I've played well the past month
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is, but I gotta keep doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Especially you want to make a run in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you want to go deep in the playoffs, then you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do that even more so. So I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: how I'm looking at as week to week. And I
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  Speaker 1: think our team is matured a lot as the season
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  Speaker 1: has gone on. We've had a lot ups and downs,
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  Speaker 1: and I've talked about that little stretch where we were
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  Speaker 1: losing a lot in a row and then now we've
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  Speaker 1: kind of bounced back, so we I think we understand more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how to win, how to handle those emotions,
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  Speaker 1: and how to just move on to the next week.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've done a great job of that. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the challenge every week and especially this at this
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  Speaker 1: point in the year, you gotta flip the page and
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  Speaker 1: and just take a week to week this point of season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying not to look at hand. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you really need your leaders to step up. Where
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  Speaker 1: do you kind of see your place and just stopping
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  Speaker 1: the team's focused stay on the easton. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just I mean, honestly, the guys have
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  Speaker 1: been been great this week. Just haven't There's not much
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  Speaker 1: conversation about next week and what's to come and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Each week will take care of itself. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta take care of business one week at
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  Speaker 1: a time. That's that's the message. And um, I mean
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  Speaker 1: more than anything, regardless of of of you know who,
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  Speaker 1: who we're playing, what game it is, how many games
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  Speaker 1: we have left. Like like I said, it's not whom
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  Speaker 1: to keep this momentum that we have. We're playing playing
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  Speaker 1: really good team ball, we're playing complementary putting together a
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  Speaker 1: great game. So why would you want to why would
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  Speaker 1: you want to jeopardize that at this point in our
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  Speaker 1: season and we're kind of hitting our stride like this
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  Speaker 1: is just another opportunity to keep doing that and to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing great together and um, and to get another
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  Speaker 1: win obviously again's a good team. So that's the mindset
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  Speaker 1: for us, and I know the guys believe that, and
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  Speaker 1: and our mindset is let's not let's not lose anymore
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  Speaker 1: this season. I mean, that's that's what we got in
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  Speaker 1: front of US's kind of what we have to do
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  Speaker 1: if we want to get to where we want to be. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: that's the mindset. And I think that's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: it has to be. In order to do that, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta win, you know, you gotta go want to know
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  Speaker 1: every week, and that's been the message this whole season,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's it's working for us, so
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  Speaker 1: we should keep doing that. It seems like you guys
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  Speaker 1: are snapping Street every week now at this point where
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty in a row and see teams or you know,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen in a row and a road that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is that as much a sign of like a culture
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  Speaker 1: change but went on here as it is you know,
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  Speaker 1: just better football being played. I think it's both, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just yeah, I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: that's a great it's a great step in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction to to break things like that. Obviously, you never
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  Speaker 1: want those to be there in the first place, those
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  Speaker 1: those bad streaks. But you know, for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to not I mean we haven't. We don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about that stuff. That's not something we think about. We
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  Speaker 1: don't go into a game like, oh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't won a road game and however long like, that's
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  Speaker 1: not something we think about. It's just I think when
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  Speaker 1: you're so focused on your job and putting one foot
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  Speaker 1: in front of the next and just building your coach
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  Speaker 1: talks about building your part of the wall, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what everyone's been able to do this year.
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  Speaker 1: Keep focusing on your job and things are gonna come together.
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  Speaker 1: And I think everyone's been able to do that even
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  Speaker 1: when things weren't going great. Everyone just kept focusing on
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  Speaker 1: their job. No one pointed the finger, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the result of that. And in every
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  Speaker 1: game we go into, you know, we have that confidence
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  Speaker 1: we can we can win it, and we can beat anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And you've seen that this season. Um so I think
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  Speaker 1: it is it's part of the culture change and just
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of this team is has been awesome. It's
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  Speaker 1: really been cool to be a part of and just
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  Speaker 1: to see that confidence really just build and build every
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  Speaker 1: week and to be a part of it and be
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it. It's been it's been really
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  Speaker 1: cool and you can feel it, and I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: guys feel it too, and when you watch the games
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, I mean, I think it's the culture changing.
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  Speaker 1: It's playing good ball, it's having having really good players,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's all those things. I think guys are playing
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  Speaker 1: well at the right time. It's it's all that. The
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  Speaker 1: full Trevor Lawrence press conference available on Jaguars dot Com
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  Speaker 1: in a moment and inside look at the Houston Texans,
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  Speaker 1: plus head coach Doug Peterson's approach to playing the starters
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by t I
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  Speaker 1: a A Bank. Limited tickets remain for the Week eight
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  Speaker 1: teen winner take all showdown between the Tennessee Titans and
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  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars for the a f C South title.
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  Speaker 1: Visit Jaguars dot com or call nine O four six
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  Speaker 1: three three two thousand. Game time and game day will
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  Speaker 1: be announced by the league following the results of Week seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move now to the Houston Texans. This week, Texans
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  Speaker 1: TV host and writer Drew Doherty joined Brian Sexton and
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  Speaker 1: John Oser on Jack's Drivetime Wednesday morning for an inside
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  Speaker 1: look of the Houston Texans and who are the players
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  Speaker 1: keeping the Texans fighting this late in a lost season. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, and it's it's definitely the defense because you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned it before the break. You know, eight takeaways
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  Speaker 1: the last three games, their plus six in turnover differential
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  Speaker 1: in those last three games, I mean they were minus
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  Speaker 1: six on the season going into that that Cowboys game,
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  Speaker 1: and then they come out of it, uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, after getting all that that that that flurry
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  Speaker 1: of takeaways and their plus two and they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of on their way back up. That had
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  Speaker 1: been one of the few things that a love you
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  Speaker 1: Smith defense and love you Smith football team had done
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  Speaker 1: well last year. They're actually positive in takeaway turn over
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  Speaker 1: differential despite what the record was. So they've been getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball back, they've been getting the ball away, and
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  Speaker 1: then this wacky two quarterback system, which I've never really
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  Speaker 1: seen work as successfully as this, and you can't can't
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  Speaker 1: really say it's too successful because they're one and two
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  Speaker 1: since I started doing it, But it just gives teams
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  Speaker 1: a different thing that they've got to prepare for. With
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  Speaker 1: Jeff dress School, who you guys know a little bit about, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know a little bit of a time there at Florida,
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  Speaker 1: But it's mainly been the takeaways and then just kind
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  Speaker 1: of a different offense with the two uh two QB system.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really good special teams plays. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the Titans game on Saturday, they
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  Speaker 1: down a punt inside the five and that made it
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  Speaker 1: tough on my leak. Willis you know, you still learning
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  Speaker 1: the game as a rookie quarterback. So kind of those
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  Speaker 1: three things. But like you said, the defense getting the
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  Speaker 1: takeaways mainly dig down a little bit offensively. For me,
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  Speaker 1: what when this team's moving the ball, what can they do? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's that's what That's what it is. They move the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna hit you with quick strike
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  Speaker 1: stuff and end to drive after two or three plays.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be a methodical thing which works,
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  Speaker 1: which is good. Um, but you're gonna get some runs
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  Speaker 1: when you know, when when Damian Pierce is not on
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  Speaker 1: the field because this season is done, he's on the
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  Speaker 1: injured reserve. But you're gonna get a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: committee of guys Daria Boomba, Wally Royce Freeman. Last weekend,
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  Speaker 1: he got you about three yards per carry, whether you
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  Speaker 1: needed one yard, whether you needed ten yards. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the old Walt Garrison joke for the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: in the sixties. But it's just one of those offenses
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  Speaker 1: that they'll utilize the tight ends and it will be
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  Speaker 1: a different tight end each week. You know, last week
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  Speaker 1: it was Brevin Jordan's coming up with a big past.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins has been the most consistent of the tight
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  Speaker 1: ends and he's kind of had his best season as
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  Speaker 1: a professional. Who's draft in twenty eighteen. So it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those type of things. And now they sprinkled back
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  Speaker 1: in Brandon Cooks. He was out for about a month
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  Speaker 1: he had he went on the field, so he caught
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown pass late in that game on Saturday. So
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  Speaker 1: they're getting help from all different types, but there's nobody
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  Speaker 1: they're feeding. There's no DeAndre Hopkins clearly on this team.
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  Speaker 1: There's no Andre Johnson, there's no Arian Foster now that
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  Speaker 1: Damian appears on the on the sidelines. So it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a group effort, and it's starting at quarterback. A
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  Speaker 1: group effort quarterback, and Drew was flipping over the defensive
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  Speaker 1: side every time I looked up the other day, Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Grenard was in the quarterback space. Yea, So where else
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  Speaker 1: is pressure coming from our plays coming from on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side the ball? Because there's not the Jadeveon Clowney
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  Speaker 1: and the j J. Watt over there that used to
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  Speaker 1: wreck game plans. It looks like that's by committee. Also, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: quiet giant in the middle is Malik Collins. He's a
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  Speaker 1: defensive tackle. You know, when the Texans are at there,
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  Speaker 1: very very worst the season, it's been a bad season.
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  Speaker 1: You have a dozen losses, it's been a bad year.
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  Speaker 1: But when they're at their worst, at their lowest, they
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  Speaker 1: were getting smoked on the ground. And that's when he
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  Speaker 1: was out. He was injured early on in the Raiders game,
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  Speaker 1: right after the by and missed about two three four
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  Speaker 1: games and the Texans just had no answer for anybody
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. He's back, he's playing really really well
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  Speaker 1: and he's getting after the quarterback. He's plugging things up
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. You know, Lovey Smith said in the
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  Speaker 1: off season, this guy's the engine of our defense. He's
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  Speaker 1: the three technique defensive tackle and he's been playing really
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  Speaker 1: really well. But also guys getting some pressure. Some some
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  Speaker 1: guys who have are pretty long in the tooth, like
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes. He's got eight sacks. You've got Mario Addison.
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  Speaker 1: He'll contribute a little bit. He was inactive last Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's had some some games. He had the
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  Speaker 1: bills and sacks last year up in Buffalo, so you're
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  Speaker 1: getting it from all over. And then also in the
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  Speaker 1: front seven Christie and Harris the rookie linebacker. You guys
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  Speaker 1: didn't see him the first time around East. He's playing
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  Speaker 1: lights out and just keeps getting better each game. Jack's
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  Speaker 1: Rive Time Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings on Jaguars dot
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  Speaker 1: Com and the Jaguars social media channels Twitter and Facebook
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube. Let's wrapt the week with the Doug Peterson
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  Speaker 1: Show from Thursday and head coach Doug Peterson's approach to
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  Speaker 1: this week against the Texans. With the division on the
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  Speaker 1: line next week against the Titans, the task at hand
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  Speaker 1: this week the Texans, then it's on to the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: What's the challenge of keeping the team focused on the
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  Speaker 1: task this week? First, that's just it, keeping the team focused. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously, um, you know, we understand what this
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  Speaker 1: team did to us the first time around week five.
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  Speaker 1: You know it was it was a thirteen six ball game.
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  Speaker 1: And and um, you know, I also got to remind
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  Speaker 1: our team that we're we're different. We're a better football
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  Speaker 1: team now, you know here in the month of December
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  Speaker 1: than we were in Week five. And and uh so
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  Speaker 1: you know you're hoping that things go a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better this time around. But you know the biggest challenge
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  Speaker 1: is to keep guys focused on this week, not looking
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  Speaker 1: into next week. And and uh, you know it's a
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  Speaker 1: good football team and a team that it's kind of dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they're not playing for anything, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know I had to remind the team of just
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. How how you know they they spoiled
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  Speaker 1: the hopes of a Indianapolis Colts team that came in
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  Speaker 1: here and you know, lost a football game to miss
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  Speaker 1: out on the postseason. So these are these are must
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  Speaker 1: wins for us. Team understands that there's a sense of
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  Speaker 1: urgency and and uh, guys are focusing ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people may wonder what the approach was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be this week, just because you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: game has meeting. From the standpoint, if you end up
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  Speaker 1: in a tie in the last game of the regular season, okay,
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  Speaker 1: then this is a tiebreaker and it means something. But
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  Speaker 1: would you rest players this week or would you not?
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  Speaker 1: And having said that, when you met the team for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time after all of this is known,
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  Speaker 1: what was the first thing that you said to your
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  Speaker 1: football team. The first thing I said is this is
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  Speaker 1: a this is a must win and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're going in with every healthy body that we
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  Speaker 1: can and and you know, um uh you know, And
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  Speaker 1: and for me too, it's this is this is a
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  Speaker 1: different situation a little bit from the standpoint of we
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  Speaker 1: can get to five hundred right, eight and eight with
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  Speaker 1: a chance to put us at nine and eight, you
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  Speaker 1: know at the end of the season. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: winning record. Um, you know, I think the history of
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars and shot and in his history and track
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  Speaker 1: record here recently, and and he hasn't had too many
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  Speaker 1: of these, uh, you know, winning seasons. And so for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a little more a little more motivation that way.
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  Speaker 1: And and um, you know, I want the guys to
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  Speaker 1: understand just how meaningful and how powerful and impactful that
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  Speaker 1: is to set this program on a path that you're
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  Speaker 1: in and year out, we expect to win and and
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  Speaker 1: have winning seasons, you know, moving forward. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a division opponent that's had there's a consecutive game streak
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  Speaker 1: going on. I mean, those are things you want to
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  Speaker 1: change when you're talking about changing the culture exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And those are things that I've I've reminded the team
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  Speaker 1: of and uh, you know, it's just it's you're changing
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  Speaker 1: the culture around here, and and the guys understand that.
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  Speaker 1: And we're putting ourselves on a on a path that
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully we win you know, a lot more
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, games, regular season games as the years
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  Speaker 1: go on. But two, we expect to win. That's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the challenging thing now with this football team is
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  Speaker 1: is getting him to believe in getting them to believe
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  Speaker 1: and and and really the expectation that we're going into
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  Speaker 1: every football game, no matter who we play, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that faithless opponent, so to speak, that we expect
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  Speaker 1: to win. And and um, the guys believe that, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have to understand just the impact of
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  Speaker 1: that in in in games like this, whether whether they
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  Speaker 1: mean something or not to the outside world, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to us, they gotta mean something. Head coach Chuck Peterson
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  Speaker 1: with us. Let's talk about a couple of key injuries
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  Speaker 1: now and the changes since those and Cam Robinson is
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  Speaker 1: out obviously, so Walker a little stepped in their left
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  Speaker 1: tackle last week, though too one smoo goes down with
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  Speaker 1: an achilles in three, what are the plans for that spot?
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  Speaker 1: And how is Walker little played at left tackle so far? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Walker stepped in last week, did a nice job in
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  Speaker 1: that game. You know, started off a touch rough, but
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  Speaker 1: but really settled in and did some did some nice things.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, he's the type of player
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  Speaker 1: we saw back in training camp where the more reps
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  Speaker 1: he gets, right, the more practice time, he becomes a
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  Speaker 1: better football player. That so we're excited about his opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and his growth right now. And and really it kind
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  Speaker 1: of gives us sort of uh an insight to who
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  Speaker 1: he is, you know, as a football player. And we're
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  Speaker 1: we're excited about that. And then on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate with Smoot and you know, losing a great
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher, you lose some of that that presence of
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  Speaker 1: the pass rush, you know with him and what he's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: uh been able to do this season. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it guys like like Josh Allen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna have to really step up now, get Traybon
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  Speaker 1: Walker back, you know, and get him in the fold.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Calebon chaisn is gonna take more meaningful
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  Speaker 1: reps now on defense as opposed to special teams. And
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  Speaker 1: you know it's just it's arden Key is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big factor in there. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a young Deshaun Dixon who, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: he's up or not, is gonna have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be ready to go. Um, you know in these these
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  Speaker 1: coming weeks because you know, with a guy like Smooth,
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  Speaker 1: we've we've lost some pass rush and and and now
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna have to get spread out amongst amongst the troops.
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  Speaker 1: But Doug Peterson Show, here's Thursday at five o'clock on
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network and the archive now on the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars social media channels. Of course, that will do it
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  Speaker 1: for this week. We're on the air in Jacksonville Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at ten o'clock with the public Stiegate Show. At noon,
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  Speaker 1: it's countdown to Kickoff on the Jaguars Radio Network. Kick
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  Speaker 1: Off for the week's seventeen matchup set for one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: Eastern from NRG Stadium in Houston as the Texans host
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  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Happy New Year, enjoy the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: thanks for listening. I'm J. P. Shadrick. We'll catch you
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  Speaker 1: next week on the Jaguars Broadcast Week Interview podcast presented
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