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The "So what, now what" mentality | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, September 22 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks drive time with Ashlyn Sulis, John Oshan,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sex, jangs drive time and starts right now. Welcome
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Speaker 1: in to Jaguars drive time, and it's Thursday morning. Ashland,
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Speaker 1: Brian and John here with you as we get ready
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Speaker 1: to head to Los Angeles on Saturday. Going on a
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Speaker 1: shorter trip this season. A bunch of analytics that goes
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Speaker 1: into that, but we are ready for a big game
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Speaker 1: this Sunday against the charge. Is a very tough matchup
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. Should we just get right into big things?
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Speaker 1: We've lost discuss wait, what you don't want to say? Hi, Brian,
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Speaker 1: Hi Brian, John. We have to do that, but I've
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Speaker 1: also talked to you for the past twenty minutes so
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Speaker 1: too on the show. That's a big it's a big bucketful.
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Speaker 1: It is, it really is. It's a lot of all right.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is commitment to the run. Kind of
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Speaker 1: some people asking why didn't we see more of James
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Speaker 1: Robinson and travesy Tan in the big win over the
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Speaker 1: colts last week? Well, I think we're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: say get used to this, people. This is what this
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Speaker 1: running game is going to look like. Maybe a little
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Speaker 1: bit more right, coach Peterson? No, I thought. I thought honestly.
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Speaker 1: I mean I know the yard per carry or yard
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Speaker 1: per temple was, you know, just over two, but I
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Speaker 1: thought it was effective enough, though, to open up some
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Speaker 1: of the some of the little play acts stuff, some
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Speaker 1: of the dropback passes, things of that nature. And, quite honestly,
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Speaker 1: you know it. You saw commitment to the run right
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Speaker 1: in how how our offensive line, you know, to charge
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Speaker 1: right there. But sometimes it's not so much the yards
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Speaker 1: per carry as much as you just got to commit
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Speaker 1: to it, stick to because it does open up some
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Speaker 1: other things in your offense. Big thing, too, is so
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Speaker 1: what now what? This is my new staying for like
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Speaker 1: I love this. Coach Peterson has been telling his team
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Speaker 1: this since the start of training camp and it is
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Speaker 1: especially true this week as this team is moving on
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Speaker 1: to week three. It's the so what now what mentality right,
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Speaker 1: and you know, we don't really care. You know, wins
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Speaker 1: are great in this lady in the hard to come
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Speaker 1: by and we like him. But Um, you know, again,
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Speaker 1: it's my job to make sure that the goals and
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Speaker 1: the ambitions and the things that we're trying to get
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Speaker 1: done stay in front of the football team and, you know,
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Speaker 1: keep pushing the team to get better, challenge the team
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Speaker 1: to get better, challenge of coaches to continue to get
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Speaker 1: better and find ways to improve and and it's a long,
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Speaker 1: long season, and hear that all the time, but it
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Speaker 1: really is. And it's just one game, you know. That's
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Speaker 1: how we got longer ago. And big thing. Three is
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Speaker 1: an interesting note. Trevor Lawrence is zero and nine on
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Speaker 1: the road. The only quarterback to lose his first nine
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Speaker 1: roads starts and win his tenth is Peyton Manning, who
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Speaker 1: beat the chargers week three in his second season. Kind
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Speaker 1: of weird. NFL Research pointed this out yesterday. Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: isn't worried about that note or also going to the
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Speaker 1: West Coast to play game. That's not something we talked
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Speaker 1: about necessarily. That's just the way. You know, coach Peterson
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Speaker 1: does it and Um, for me, I don't have a
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Speaker 1: ton of experience to these games. So Um, he's found
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Speaker 1: success doing that and I'm all for it. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think that's I think it makes sense. You know,
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Speaker 1: you don't really have enough time to adjust anyway, so
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Speaker 1: you might as well keep your schedule the same, go
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Speaker 1: out there, you know, do you do most of your
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Speaker 1: prep here, go out there and play the game, come home. Um,
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Speaker 1: so it makes sense to me. But now, I mean
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Speaker 1: we're looking forward to this matchup. Obviously it's a great
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Speaker 1: team that we get a chance that to go play
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Speaker 1: in L A and Um, we're excited for that opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And that is big things, a little eerie, right. Big thing. Three,
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Speaker 1: that the only quarterback to win his tenth game and
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Speaker 1: if the chargers the same week as Trevor Lawrence playing
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Speaker 1: the chargers. I don't think that's a coincidence. Well, tackle
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Speaker 1: this one, because I wasn't sure what to make of it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can tell you that when Peyton beat the chargers,
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Speaker 1: they didn't have Justin Herbert. Well, they did, he was
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Speaker 1: too Uman Allen. Yeah, I mean so obviously everybody knows
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really apply that much, but it is interesting
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Speaker 1: and make a good storyline. UH, Terry said the other
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Speaker 1: day that you are really the only quarterback he followed
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Speaker 1: growing up was peyton manning. So maybe Peyton, you know it,
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Speaker 1: could pass on some advice on how to win that
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Speaker 1: game against the charges in week three of the second seas.
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Speaker 1: Don't don't turn the ball over Um. You know, let's
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Speaker 1: go back to the top Um, the commitment to the run,
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Speaker 1: and we talked about Doug is not the guy who
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Speaker 1: is going to say run, pass, mix or balanced, like
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Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin used to around here or a lot of
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Speaker 1: other coaches do. He's only worried about what he has
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Speaker 1: to do to get the win, and he must have
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Speaker 1: said this three or four times yesterday and Monday. Hey,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna Change Week to week. I only care about
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Speaker 1: getting the win. It'll change. But the interesting part is
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Speaker 1: this week, John, they've got to run the ball. You've
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Speaker 1: got to be able to effectively run the ball to
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Speaker 1: keep Bosa and Mac from just having a field day.
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Speaker 1: Your tackles are playing okay right. Jo Want Taylor is
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Speaker 1: really playing well, but he hasn't seen Joey Bosa yet.
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Speaker 1: So you've got to be able to run the ball
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Speaker 1: this week. Well, they're not going to run the ball
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Speaker 1: more than they did last week. They ran thirty seven
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Speaker 1: times and they threw thirty. Uh. It's been almost diametrically
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Speaker 1: opposed the first two weeks. I think that's Doug's point
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Speaker 1: is whatever it takes now. They wouldn't have run as
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Speaker 1: much last week, except in the fourth quarter they became
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Speaker 1: the hand. Why wouldn't you? Um? In the NFL these
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Speaker 1: days the run is important, but I covered peyton manning
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Speaker 1: forever in the modern passing game right so that was
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Speaker 1: really where I learned a lot about it. Peyton needs
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Speaker 1: to talk about all the time. It's not so much
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Speaker 1: important to run as it's important in this day and
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Speaker 1: age to make the other team believe you are going
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Speaker 1: to run, to establish the threat of the run. So
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Speaker 1: I definitely think Doug agrees with that. You saw that
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Speaker 1: in the first drive of the third quarter against Washington.
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Speaker 1: He came out James Robinson wants James Robinson twice, fifteen yards,
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Speaker 1: play action Christian Kirk. That's why it's important to run.
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Speaker 1: The other team has to believe you want to do it,
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Speaker 1: and this week it's important to make them believe you
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Speaker 1: want to do it. Otherwise Bosa and Mac create havoc
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Speaker 1: right and travisy Tan in the locker room yesterday said
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Speaker 1: of course you know, as a running back I'd love
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Speaker 1: to get all the carries in the world and I'd
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Speaker 1: love to be the highlight of every game, but we
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Speaker 1: also need to win a game and it's obviously much
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Speaker 1: more important to do that, even if travisy Tan doesn't
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Speaker 1: get the carries that everyone's asking for. So I have
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Speaker 1: to high school football players at home. I might have
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Speaker 1: written so what now? What on the White Board in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. Did you? I thought it was really cool.
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Speaker 1: I'd never heard it said just like that, and John
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Speaker 1: said the other day we've been covering this like a
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Speaker 1: long time. I've never heard it put just like that,
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Speaker 1: but I loved it. I just so what now? What?
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Speaker 1: And I think that speaks so much to Doug, who
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Speaker 1: is so focused on what he's doing today. You don't
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Speaker 1: it's hard to get him to think about Sunday right now.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to get him to talk about Sunday right
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Speaker 1: now because he's thinking about Thursday. I appreciate that. It's
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Speaker 1: subtly different than my motto, which is just what. Well,
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Speaker 1: I thought truthfully, when he said it. Yes, I thought
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Speaker 1: that there was just this creation that he just came
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Speaker 1: up with and I was like, my gosh, that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Did you just think that? And then I went and
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Speaker 1: talk to our producers and Trent, who shoots miked up
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Speaker 1: for us and training camp, says, oh no, he's been
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Speaker 1: saying that all training camp and this is something that
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Speaker 1: he's preached since August. Well, and he probably heard it
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Speaker 1: all those years ago when he was an undrafted rookie
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Speaker 1: in Miami. I mean, it's so much of football at
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Speaker 1: Gen Romy right, you pick up the cards off the
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Speaker 1: discard pile and there's not a whole lot new. But Um,
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Speaker 1: it's new in Jacksonville and I just I just spoke
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Speaker 1: at the Pontavida Rotary Club. So shout out to those
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Speaker 1: folks in Pontovidra and I used the so what now?
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Speaker 1: What conversation and everybody's eyes perked up. You know, they're wow.
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Speaker 1: I love that, which just goes to show you that
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Speaker 1: sometimes something new just grabs people's attention. And I bet
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Speaker 1: there will be other parents who will be writing that
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Speaker 1: on the board. Go prove it right. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: won last week. What do you do now? What are
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Speaker 1: you gonna do this week? Um and John, I think
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Speaker 1: it's been interesting because I talked to Foyer Louikan in
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Speaker 1: the locker room yesterday. You know, the maturity level of
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Speaker 1: a team that's coming off just an absolute beating of
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Speaker 1: a of a division rival that Um, you know, that's
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Speaker 1: the the forerunner in the A F C south. You
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Speaker 1: might be feeling yourself, you know, and you're getting on
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Speaker 1: an airplane. You're feeling good. quarterback played his best game,
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Speaker 1: your defense looks good. They're not focused on that. They're
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Speaker 1: they're focused on what they've got in front of them,
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Speaker 1: which is a Los Angeles chargers team that if everybody's healthy,
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Speaker 1: and they're not, but if everyone's healthy, I think is.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's right there with buffalo and Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: maybe just slightly behind buffalo and Kansas City as the
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Speaker 1: very best in the A F c. So I like
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Speaker 1: the maturity level. I like the atmosphere in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: Now I did notice there's something different in that locker room.
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Speaker 1: There's a little confidence that we haven't seen in a
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Speaker 1: while Um, and that's nice, but I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: over confidence. They did a nice job and I know
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Speaker 1: we'll move on. Uh, it's hard to do when you
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Speaker 1: were rebuilding a team because you know you want to
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Speaker 1: build your eventual core through the draft. But this team
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Speaker 1: did a nice job in the offseason. You think about it,
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Speaker 1: of bringing in free agents who are not only leaders
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Speaker 1: but who could play, because it doesn't matter if you
8:55
Speaker 1: can leave if you can't play. So you've got Brandon Sheriff,
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Speaker 1: you've got now got Marvin Jones and Christian Kirk, you've
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Speaker 1: got Evan Ingram, all these guys you know, and you
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Speaker 1: don't really need it in the running back room that much.
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Speaker 1: You do, but it's a running back room often is
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Speaker 1: just young guys who can just play. So you can't
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Speaker 1: have it a quarterback really because you want Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: to be the guy. Everywhere else in the team they
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Speaker 1: brought in veterans who can lead, who can get that
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Speaker 1: message across and they can play. So, uh, interestingly, nice
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Speaker 1: job of roster construction in the offseason on that front.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like you have that leader or that veteran
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Speaker 1: presence in every single position room now with the team.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that is not a coincidence. Well, yeah, boy,
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Speaker 1: Loui Kon and and I want to through fully fought Kassi,
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Speaker 1: because I know you went back and watch the tape
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Speaker 1: and and these are the you can't see it when
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Speaker 1: you just watch it on TV. You gotta go back
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Speaker 1: and and really get the end zone copy to see
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Speaker 1: how dominant the guy fully fought Kasi is, to watch
9:48
Speaker 1: him take on the center, shed the guard and make
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Speaker 1: the play. Now he doesn't get the tackle. Trayvon Walker
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Speaker 1: comes over the top and makes the tackle, but he
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Speaker 1: made the play right. Talk about a guy who's a leader.
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Speaker 1: I fought Kazi. He's impressive. WHO NOT gonna get the
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Speaker 1: credit for it? Always no, and and and now there
10:03
Speaker 1: are more services for people to go back and watch it.
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Speaker 1: So if you got to go watch the end, don't
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Speaker 1: copy on that one and just watch how he dominates it.
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Speaker 1: And that is big things. When we come back on
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Speaker 1: drive time, it is Thursday. We have a big locker
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Speaker 1: room period. Wednesday afternoon is way great. All everything we
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Speaker 1: need to know coming up for this upcoming game. So
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Speaker 1: let's go around the locker room and a couple of
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Speaker 1: players echoing the same sentiment from head coach, Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: of the so what's now? What's same? As a professional
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Speaker 1: team and as us, we have to move forward. You
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Speaker 1: know what what I'm saying. We expect to win. Like I said, man,
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Speaker 1: I think this team is built to win. So we
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Speaker 1: expect to one. So we we have to learn how
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Speaker 1: to win and I learn how to move forward to
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Speaker 1: get another one and another one, another one to fight adversity.
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Speaker 1: Would need it. Uh. So, I mean that's my our
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Speaker 1: that's our mentality. That's my mentality for sure. And Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're ready for the sounds this week. Definitely.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like that's a ment teller. You have
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Speaker 1: to have an NFL. So what now? What I would say?
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Speaker 1: A man to me just uh say I made a
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Speaker 1: great play. So who cares, we're gonna make another one.
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Speaker 1: And I was that's a mentality we have. We won
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Speaker 1: a game last week, so what one, another one, and
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Speaker 1: now that's how we're going to try to attackle each
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Speaker 1: and every week. So whatnot with it. I would love
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Speaker 1: to see you during contract time, Trent Vak. So, now
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Speaker 1: that that's so, what now? Now? That's very good idea.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that would be ato to the same sense, man,
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Speaker 1: but it just goes to the point that that we
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Speaker 1: made in the last block, which was this is a
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Speaker 1: football team. Young as they are right there, the third
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Speaker 1: youngest team in football. Uh, they understand that. They haven't
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Speaker 1: really done anything yet. You beat the colts at home
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Speaker 1: and I've said I don't think the culture that good. Um,
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Speaker 1: based on what I've seen, you're going to play a
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Speaker 1: chart team. I think it's great, right, and then you
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Speaker 1: get an eagles team that's playing really well right now.
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Speaker 1: The next couple of weeks we'll give you the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to say that's what alright. So now we've watched Christian
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Speaker 1: Kirk success over the past two weeks, playing great and
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Speaker 1: looks like he's worth every penny of that free agency contract.
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Speaker 1: But what goes unnoticed at times is the play of
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Speaker 1: Za Jones and how that is helping Christian Kirk have success.
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Speaker 1: And Z Jones says at times you have to be
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Speaker 1: a selfless receiver, which sometimes it can be difficult. You know,
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Speaker 1: all of us receivers. We want football, we want our
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Speaker 1: moments Um, but I think if you can understand the
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Speaker 1: long game and you can stay in it and understand, uh,
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Speaker 1: the schematic, what we're trying to do and that it's
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Speaker 1: an entire team effort for a duration of seventeen weeks,
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Speaker 1: just giving all you have and opening up one of
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Speaker 1: your teammates, they'll do that in return for you. So
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Speaker 1: just doing the best I can to whether if it's
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Speaker 1: to clear out somebody orf us, to take a top
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Speaker 1: off our coverage, or you know, whatever it is, I'm
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Speaker 1: willing to do that for him because vice first. I
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Speaker 1: Know Christians will want to do that for me and Zay.
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Speaker 1: He really thought about this answer when we talked about this,
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Speaker 1: and I could tell you know it is difficult for
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Speaker 1: him at this point because a Jones was the storyline
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Speaker 1: of training camp. We really I mean we talked about
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk in preseason training camp. We didn't see a
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Speaker 1: lot of him, which kind of had us really talking
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Speaker 1: about D Jones. He's making impactful plays, but Christian Kirk
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Speaker 1: has dominated the conversation the past two weeks. Yes, yourselfless,
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Speaker 1: but I can also imagine it's a little difficult at times. Two.
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Speaker 1: I think if ZA was a rookie, this would really
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Speaker 1: bother him. Um, he's been around the league and long
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Speaker 1: enough to know he's an intelligent guy. Um, his time
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Speaker 1: is gonna come and when it comes it's going to
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Speaker 1: come to the tune of twenty five yard plays. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's been a little surprising, frankly, Bryan, that Christian Kirk
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Speaker 1: has been this good. I think teams have entered the
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Speaker 1: first two games figuring, okay, we're gonna do this to
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Speaker 1: take it away, and I think that hasn't worked. And
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Speaker 1: now you're getting to the point where I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: teams in the first couple of games thought we've got
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Speaker 1: to give two guys over here, we have to lean
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Speaker 1: the defense. It's been more we have to have a
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Speaker 1: guy who's covering him really concentrate on it and be
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Speaker 1: aware he's the key to the Jaguars offense right now.
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Speaker 1: Teams are gonna have to figure out how to scheme
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Speaker 1: that in the middle. It's going to open up Za
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Speaker 1: Jones at some point and when it does it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be big time play. Well, in that twenty six yard plays,
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Speaker 1: a Jones made it happen because he ran down the
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Speaker 1: field and created the space. Here's what I've been impressed with. John.
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Speaker 1: You hear all the time about when you get new
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Speaker 1: players together like a coach, a quarterback in a wide receiver. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're working on the relationship. We're out playing golf, which
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Speaker 1: was the story with Christian and with Trevor. We can
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Speaker 1: see it. I mean I think I think it's uncanny
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Speaker 1: already with just two games, the communication, the unspoken communication,
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Speaker 1: that those two have. I mean you've seen better unspoken
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Speaker 1: communication that I have. I mean I saw it with
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Speaker 1: Jimmy and with Mark Right, you saw it with Reggie
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Speaker 1: and Marvin and and Peyton Um. But already in just
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Speaker 1: two games you can see it from those guys. It's
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Speaker 1: it's it's a really good sign and Christian deserves a
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Speaker 1: lot of credit for that. I'm not saying trevor doesn't,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of that is the receiver understanding what
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Speaker 1: the quarterback wants quickly. Christian kirk a veteran guy, a
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Speaker 1: very highly intelligent player and able to adapt in the
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Speaker 1: middle of plays very quickly because he really knows the
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Speaker 1: playbook and he understands the scheme of the offense. And,
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Speaker 1: by the way, if we haven't said it enough, it's
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Speaker 1: because he'll give credit to the fact that he was
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Speaker 1: with Larry Fitzgerald and Um, there's other guys. Deandre hoppins,
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Speaker 1: I was thinking, David Boston because I just wrote a
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Speaker 1: story about the two thousand three teams and Um, a
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Speaker 1: j green right, he was with three hall of fame
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Speaker 1: caliber guys in Arizona. They taught him well and we
15:46
Speaker 1: talked about that relationship of Christian and trevor. If you
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Speaker 1: go back and watch sounds of the game, which is
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Speaker 1: up on Jaguars Dot com now, you see on the
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Speaker 1: sidelines when trevor throws that short past to Christian Kirk,
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Speaker 1: they come back on the sidelines and Christians like, dude,
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Speaker 1: were you ever going to throw it to me? And
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Speaker 1: it's just this this calmness after a huge monumental play
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Speaker 1: that he's just like casually like we're you just going
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Speaker 1: to run it in like at this point, just running in.
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Speaker 1: It's just a relationship, great relationship, and that is around
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Speaker 1: three six. We're back Jaguars drive time on Thursday, getting
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Speaker 1: ready for a Sunday game against the Los Angeles charger.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it his time for he will, he won't, he
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Speaker 1: might for that game. Right on with the head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and he will have his team ready to
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Speaker 1: play on Sunday. They will not go out there and
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Speaker 1: lay an egg like so many Jaguars teams have when
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Speaker 1: playing the chargers in particular, or Seattle, going out and
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Speaker 1: just not being ready to go. I love the you know,
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Speaker 1: so what now what? The way the players have embraced it.
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Speaker 1: I love what I heard from the guys in the
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Speaker 1: locker room yesterday. Right, they know what they're up against.
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Speaker 1: They're not living in the past on this deal. Um, Doug,
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Speaker 1: by the way, won't worry about what's happened in the past.
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Speaker 1: I find it interesting. You know he gets all kinds
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Speaker 1: of questions about young team. Does Trevor Trust everything that's
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Speaker 1: going on around him with all the newness? Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: they haven't one on the West Coast and they haven't
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Speaker 1: one away from home. And, Doug, you didn't want to
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Speaker 1: hear that. It doesn't matter to him. It has no
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Speaker 1: impact on this team and he won't let it bother him.
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Speaker 1: He hasn't and he won't let his team spend a
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Speaker 1: moment thinking about excuses or reasons why they can't go
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Speaker 1: out there and be ready to go on Sunday and
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Speaker 1: he might be smiling on the plane ride home on
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Speaker 1: Sunday now. Maybe that's because the charges aren't healthy and
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Speaker 1: they get a chance to go out there and steal one.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe just smiling because he knows, even if they
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Speaker 1: don't win, and it would be on the inside, by
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Speaker 1: the way, Um, that they're making progress and and they're
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Speaker 1: getting better and he's got them in the right direction,
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Speaker 1: that they're believing in his philosophy, doing things the way
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Speaker 1: he wants to and then it's just a matter of
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Speaker 1: time before they start to put some together. It's that
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Speaker 1: long term look of the season right and I go
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Speaker 1: back to week one in post Washington. Commanders in the
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Speaker 1: locker room, especially the players, man really down, really frustrated.
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Speaker 1: Just for a moment, and I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: coach Peterson was smiling, but he was incredibly calm. He
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Speaker 1: was incredibly just like hey, fellas, it's okay, it's week one,
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Speaker 1: and I mean I was upset. I think everyone was upset,
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Speaker 1: because you felt like you could win that game and
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Speaker 1: he was the calmest guy in the low his team
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Speaker 1: is modeling him, which is a sure sign they believe
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Speaker 1: in him. All right, John, what do you got uh my,
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Speaker 1: he will, he won't, he might. Is Devin Lloyd, Um
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Speaker 1: and he's an important matchup this week. He will be
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Speaker 1: very important because of the presence of Austin ekeler. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, we all talked about Justin Herbert and the
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Speaker 1: receivers and Austin Ekeler, the running back. He's a different
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Speaker 1: guy than Jonathan Taylor, but he he's very difficult to
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Speaker 1: defend on the outside of the defense. He's very quick,
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Speaker 1: which is he won't. Devin Lloyd Um, he won't shut
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Speaker 1: eckler down because you don't do that. But what he
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Speaker 1: go back to, he will. I'm all over the place.
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Speaker 1: He will, he won't, he will. So this is really
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Speaker 1: he will, he won't, he will, he might. He will
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Speaker 1: make big plays against Eckler and give them a chance
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Speaker 1: to disrupt that offense. What I mean by that is
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Speaker 1: if heckler gets eight yards on on first down, Devin
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Speaker 1: Lloyd with the Jaguars is a guy they haven't had
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Speaker 1: probably since Telvin, who can turn second and two into
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Speaker 1: third and eight with a six yard loss and do
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Speaker 1: it routinely. And UH, he might. I'm gonna go interception here,
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Speaker 1: because the guy's ball skills are off the charts. Good. Uh.
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Speaker 1: At some point this season Devin Lloyd is gonna make
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Speaker 1: a play. I know he had interception last week, but
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Speaker 1: as a ball and even he said it was a
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Speaker 1: tip and great play, but I think it was Floydfi.
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Speaker 1: Cos He's gonna make a play like he almost did
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Speaker 1: in the end zone to turn a game around. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it would be against Justin Herbert, but
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Speaker 1: it might be down near the goal line. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: something like that he is going to do at some
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Speaker 1: point this season. I'm going to be special. It's a
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Speaker 1: great goal because ekeler is a really elusive, shifty runner
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Speaker 1: Um and you can just see that Lloyd is getting
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Speaker 1: better week to week, more more. You don't shut guys
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Speaker 1: like that down. But what Devin Lloyd is in the
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Speaker 1: modern NFL big play defense at key times. He can
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Speaker 1: be that sort of guy break, yeah and fast, like Talvin,
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Speaker 1: but bigger than Telvin, to just some bigger body takes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure. Alright, my he will, he won't. He might.
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Speaker 1: Is Andre six SCO. He will continue to emphasize the
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Speaker 1: need for turnovers and entire secondary will. He's coming off
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Speaker 1: agay Moore. He had an interception that Jaguars tied for
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Speaker 1: first right now in the league with interceptions at five,
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Speaker 1: and Cisco has one of them. They'll need to keep
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Speaker 1: that going on Sunday. You'RE gonna have to get some
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Speaker 1: extra positions on offense to beat this chargers team and
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Speaker 1: it's no question that the secondary is emphasizing the need
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Speaker 1: to keep the speed going on how many turnovers they're
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Speaker 1: getting on defense. He won't be overlooked. This week. Might
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Speaker 1: be the toughest matchup of his career so far. I
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Speaker 1: know he is a young player, but I think this
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Speaker 1: is the toughest going. As Keenan Allen and Mike Williams,
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Speaker 1: he spoke about it on Monday. Preparation will be key
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Speaker 1: for Andre Cisco this week because he is going to
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Speaker 1: get a large lot of targets with these two receivers.
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Speaker 1: He might be the key to the game and I
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Speaker 1: think you can make an argument there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: keys to this game, but if this secondary doesn't play well,
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Speaker 1: this can get ugly. I think Andre Cisco might be
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Speaker 1: the key to this Jaguars defense this week. Well, they
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Speaker 1: were really happy with the way the safety is played.
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Speaker 1: Rayeon Jakins had four passes defense in addition to the interception,
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Speaker 1: especially the one in the end zone. There Um and
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Speaker 1: Cisco at Syracuse was a turnover guy. I mean he
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Speaker 1: had thirteen takeaways in his two full seasons while he
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Speaker 1: played there. So to see him finally get that one,
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Speaker 1: maybe that's, you know, breaking the glass ceiling and giving
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Speaker 1: him a chance to rise. But it's good to go
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Speaker 1: out to the West Coast to play a strong passing
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Speaker 1: attack like this one feeling good about your secondary, and
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Speaker 1: they do. They feel very good about the way that
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Speaker 1: the safety is played. ill, thinking about we're talking about here.
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Speaker 1: There's been through two games both safeties have a pick
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Speaker 1: in your corner has a pick every time. We talk
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Speaker 1: about players right now, which just struck me as looking
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Speaker 1: at Cisco and looking at devn Lloyd, guys who maybe
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Speaker 1: have a combined what five NFL Games under their belt?
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have growing pains this year. But all these
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Speaker 1: young guys that we're talking about, and I know it's
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Speaker 1: kind of off topic, but all these every guy we
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Speaker 1: talked about is young, young, young. I expect growing pains
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. I expect Herbert to get him a couple
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Speaker 1: of times and I don't expect this team to win,
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Speaker 1: but these young players, there's so much potential and there's
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Speaker 1: so much productivity. That has already happened. They are growing,
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Speaker 1: they are going to grow and you're he will, he
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Speaker 1: will and he might. I think he's gonna have a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun with this team by the end of
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Speaker 1: the season. Absolutely not, as he will, he won't, he might.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, Monday's headlines Today on Jaguar's drive
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Speaker 1: time time for Monday's headlines Today. Now we won't have
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Speaker 1: a Monday show because we're landing at two am and
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Speaker 1: she lend needs her beauty sleep. We will have a
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Speaker 1: Wednesday show, but we're still going to predict what we're
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Speaker 1: talking about on Monday. Just Chit Chatting. Sobrian, what are
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Speaker 1: Monday's headlines next? Monday's headline is gonna be left at
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Speaker 1: all on the coast. I'm like John. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: take a team, a young team like this, Um, one
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Speaker 1: that has lost the last eighteen times they've played away
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Speaker 1: from home, and say they're going to go win. But
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Speaker 1: I think they're going to go play well and I
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Speaker 1: think that people are going to be energized by what
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Speaker 1: they see on Sunday and they're not going to be
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Speaker 1: down about it. They're gonna feel good about it. So
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Speaker 1: you've heard the old saying they left it all on
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Speaker 1: the field, right, they left it all on the coast. Well,
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Speaker 1: fans aren't gonna feel good about it. They're gonna be
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Speaker 1: ticked because they want to win every game. And I
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Speaker 1: think there's I think there's a group of fans that
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Speaker 1: will see it and go okay, I think people are
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Speaker 1: they don't write me so that my headline is mmmm
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Speaker 1: said just like that, MMM. Because I think, like Brian said,
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of fans are gonna look at
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Speaker 1: this game and then once it's over, after a day
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Speaker 1: or two, they're gonna look back and see a lot
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Speaker 1: of things where they could have won. It might be
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Speaker 1: a game with the Jag wars are sitting in the
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Speaker 1: locker room talking about you know what, we could have
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Speaker 1: had it if a B and C. I think maybe
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Speaker 1: a mistakere to a big play. I anticipate Justin herber.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about it all week. He can make plays
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Speaker 1: to beat you even if you're in the right position,
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Speaker 1: and it's a very detailed you know, you could see
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Speaker 1: a cornerback barely missing a ball that he could have
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Speaker 1: gotten in a touchdown and thinking, man, if it had
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Speaker 1: just been. It's that close. But with these good teams
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Speaker 1: with high powered offenses these days, we've all seen the
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Speaker 1: games when the chargers in bill. They haven't played in
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Speaker 1: a while, but charge and chiefs or bills and chiefs,
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Speaker 1: it's one play. Jaguars, I don't think we're there yet,
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Speaker 1: but I think fans are going to see a time
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Speaker 1: when they could be there after this game. MINUS CLOSE,
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Speaker 1: but make it nineteen. I think the Jaguars, like we
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Speaker 1: all said, will be competitive, and that's I mean, let's
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Speaker 1: be frank, last year's team, this wouldn't be a close
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Speaker 1: game and we would go into that knowing that. I
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Speaker 1: think they'll be competitive. I think this game will be
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Speaker 1: relevant at the start of the fourth quarter. A year ago,
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Speaker 1: that's all we could have asked for. Close, but make
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Speaker 1: it nineteen. But you feel progress as you move forward.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are going to be
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Speaker 1: smiling again, maybe a little later in the week, but
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Speaker 1: they're they're like the Washington lost. They're going to see
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Speaker 1: a team that's not the same old Jaguars, absolutely, and
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Speaker 1: that is Jaguars drive time on a Thursday morning. We
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Speaker 1: will be back with you next Wednesday. Like we said,
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Speaker 1: no Monday morning show, but stay with us on Jaguars
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