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Countdown to Kickoff | Fred Taylor on Jaguars Offense Needing Fast Start, Slowing Down Justin Jefferson in Vikings Matchup · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Typh Our Weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. The Vikings are coming to town. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: It's week ten. How are you. What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Jp?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, man, I am so good. I'm just ready
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  Speaker 3: to get back out here. He's the more football, hopefully
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  Speaker 3: for a better ending this time around, but certainly the
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  Speaker 3: excitement is there. Just doesn't really finish the way we
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  Speaker 3: all anticipated.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't work out, hasn't worked out for a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. Obviously, two and seven record, but hey, if
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  Speaker 1: you get one this week against Minnesota, then okay, you
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  Speaker 1: got a little something going at least. There's injury bugs
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  Speaker 1: are creeping in now and Trevor Lawrence has been on
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  Speaker 1: that list this week limited earlier in the week with
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  Speaker 1: a left shoulder issue coming out of the game. So
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones getting some reps and when the quarterbacks dinged up,
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  Speaker 1: that's always news.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always news. The good thing is, you know
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  Speaker 3: he was able to finish the game a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: You know, regardless of wet, circling and buzzing out there,
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  Speaker 3: you have to be more safe. I'm sorry, get the backup, guys.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of opportunities just in case or in the
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  Speaker 3: event that something does happen, and it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: be anything openly physical. When you have different injuries, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you tend to kind of you want to just be cautious, right,
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  Speaker 3: So everybody has to be be raised always the next
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  Speaker 3: man up mentality, and Mac former first round guy, we
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  Speaker 3: know he's more than capable. I thought he had a
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  Speaker 3: great uh preseason, uh this past this past preseason, So
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  Speaker 3: certainly Matt could could get it done in the event
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  Speaker 3: Trevor is not able to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: And they're beat up other places as well. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know wide receiver, we know all about that. The
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  Speaker 1: offensive line now dinged up, and it's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: it goes this season. The next man's got to get
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  Speaker 1: up and play, and let's get into this offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: If Ezra Cleveland's not ready, maybe it's Blake Handsett left guard,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they've got they're just they're digging deep
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, that's the way it goes, man. It happens
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  Speaker 3: that way when you're still you're sold to be the
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  Speaker 3: best in the world, play on the best stage in
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  Speaker 3: the world, and that's the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Those things happen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're ten weeks in, as you mentioned, and
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  Speaker 3: that's why the front office guys get paid. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they have to keep bringing players in, keep evaluating, and
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  Speaker 3: keep you soning. Just might just might get lucky and
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  Speaker 3: find someone that can stick and end up being that
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  Speaker 3: diamond and the rough that you need to get the
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  Speaker 3: job done. But first things first, the guys that are available,
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  Speaker 3: they have to go out there and they have to
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  Speaker 3: play well versus you know, this dyke, this Vikings front four,
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  Speaker 3: who's coming in town with twenty seven sacks, so they're
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  Speaker 3: averaging right around three per game or so. So it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a real challenge for whoever's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Dnathan Grenard, Andrew Van Ginkole, those guys can get after it.
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  Speaker 1: On the defensive side, Fred Taylor is us, how does
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguars offense get to a faster start? They have
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  Speaker 1: started so slow all season long. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long this interview should be. We can talk for
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  Speaker 1: hours about this, I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know that's the unfortunate part, man, because
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  Speaker 3: if I knew the answers, maybe I'll be right there
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  Speaker 3: in the building with you, you know, calling the plays directing
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  Speaker 3: the team in some capacity. Yeah, I think Doug said it. Situationally,
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  Speaker 3: they have to get better. You know, over the course
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  Speaker 3: of the season, we've seen several different things pop up
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  Speaker 3: at the most inopportune time, whether it be drops, overthrow,
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  Speaker 3: simple missus, a sack to slow down the drive. But
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  Speaker 3: you have to get an other team's credit as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they come in, they have to make adjustments
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  Speaker 3: and make sure they're not exposing themselves because the first
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  Speaker 3: fifteen plays of the game typically they're hoping that that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be maybe you know two, you know, three series
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  Speaker 3: at best. If you do go three and out and
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  Speaker 3: teams make adjustments, maybe they get better with their sideline
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  Speaker 3: adjustments as well as the players just making the plays
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  Speaker 3: they're supposed to make. You know, it's just not the coaching,
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  Speaker 3: it's the entire group and that group when they take
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  Speaker 3: turns being bad, then this is the result. It's a
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  Speaker 3: slow start that eventually leads to losses.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us prout of the Jaguars running back
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  Speaker 1: and let's flip it out of the Jaguars defense, and
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  Speaker 1: we know the issues in the passing game this year
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  Speaker 1: on defense or thirty first in the league in yardage.
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  Speaker 1: They give up explosive plays, and really there's never a
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  Speaker 1: good time for an explosive play, but certainly late in
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  Speaker 1: games and key moments, and they playing justin Jeffers In
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  Speaker 1: this week, he leaves the league in receiving yards. So
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  Speaker 1: how do you slow this guy down?
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  Speaker 2: Look? You you said it, JP.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know if everybody out there knew Jettis, which
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  Speaker 3: is his nickname.
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  Speaker 2: It enters the room before he does.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, but you can smell him from a while
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  Speaker 3: away because he's like always burning jet fuel.
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  Speaker 2: The guy can go. He can do everything.
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  Speaker 3: Everything they ever witnessed th old school Jaguar fans, they
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  Speaker 3: ever witnessed Jimmy Smith doo. This kid can do all
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  Speaker 3: of that and more. He can run every route in
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  Speaker 3: the book, the entire route tree. He can go deep,
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  Speaker 3: beat your intermediate, he can beat your short run after
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  Speaker 3: the catch. But he's more of a deep threat than
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  Speaker 3: anything else. And how you slow him down? You just
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  Speaker 3: you know, you go out there and you play as
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  Speaker 3: much up coverage to have him catch the ball in
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  Speaker 3: front of you as you can, and hopefully throughout that
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  Speaker 3: process you're you're hoping to get some pressure. You know
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  Speaker 3: after Sam Darnell, Uh, to to create opportunity interception or
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  Speaker 3: turnover opportunities for yourself. We try and keep them in
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  Speaker 3: front of you by way of playing very sound discipline
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  Speaker 3: zone which Jack Warris hadn't really been great at this year. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but you try your best to play those coverages. You
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  Speaker 3: can even try and double team him. And then you
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  Speaker 3: expose yourself to guys like Jordan Addison, who's who's been
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  Speaker 3: back also you know in there in there not just
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  Speaker 3: their past game, but but I mean their their their
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  Speaker 3: run game is doing well with Aaron Jones, but he's
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  Speaker 3: also been great in their past game as well as
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  Speaker 3: their third leading receiver. So you have to play sound
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  Speaker 3: man discipline and not get too antsy.
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  Speaker 1: And Jalen Naylor is another guy Hawkinson back the title
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  Speaker 1: and yet you know he hasn't played yet, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's wrap up Bred with the rematch for
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  Speaker 1: Cam Robinson after the trade. He got a game ball
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  Speaker 1: last week in his first game with Minnesota. It was
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  Speaker 1: the first guy who got one in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of emotions will he have? And then Josh
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  Speaker 1: heinz Allen facing off against him most of the day.
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  Speaker 3: The beautiful things about this is, you know, they have
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  Speaker 3: to do something in Minnesota to get Cam's confidence, to
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  Speaker 3: make sure it's the same.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Camp can get Camp can play with.
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  Speaker 3: Some nastiness to him from time to time. But in
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  Speaker 3: this particular matchup, these guys know each other really well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and they can go back to the old
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  Speaker 3: school tricks at the trade.
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  Speaker 2: We know who you are.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way you can hide over the past four
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  Speaker 3: years from each other or five years or so from
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  Speaker 3: each other. So it's gonna be an interesting matchup that
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see. We gave the Player Network game
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  Speaker 3: ball to Travon Walker. We did and easily two sacks.
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  Speaker 3: Josh heinz Allen. You know, he played a terrific game
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  Speaker 3: last week. He had some other pressures as well, so
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  Speaker 3: I think he's revped up, ready to go, probably be
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  Speaker 3: a lot more excited with this matchup, and he probably
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  Speaker 3: feels that he's gonna have some opportunities to go against
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  Speaker 3: his former teammate and make some noise. So two sacks,
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  Speaker 3: three sacks, a strip fumble, a sack fumble, you know,
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  Speaker 3: two of those two will certainly put you in position
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  Speaker 3: and win this game, and you know, I'm sure every
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  Speaker 3: Jaguar fan again across the globe will hope that Josh
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  Speaker 3: has his best game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: That will help the team, you know, walk away with
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  Speaker 2: a victory.
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  Speaker 1: Bred great as always as tough stretch continues, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: root for a win Sunday against the Vikings. Man, We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to.
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  Speaker 2: You one game at a time. Let's see how it
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  Speaker 2: unfolds back brick by brick, the breck by ain grick,
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  Speaker 2: and let's make sure Tornado ain't nowhere close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, we'll talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, I was just messing round