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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, October 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Trive Time with Ashlyn Sullimson with John Oshan,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton. Jacks Drive starts right now and welcome in
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Speaker 1: to Jack Drive Time on a Thursday morning. I'm not
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan, I'm J P. Shadrick in for Ashland yet again.
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Speaker 1: She'll be back with us very soon, Brian Sexton, John
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Speaker 1: Osier along with us as always, getting ready for the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. It's week five, It's onto Tennessee. John, Finally
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Speaker 1: a little more football talk? Is the day's move along here? Yeah? Fine,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's been a long week. I think for
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are on the Jaguars. A lot
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Speaker 1: of questions you don't involve football, uh in what is
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Speaker 1: really I guess the main rivalry game for a lot
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Speaker 1: of fans, and frankly a game that in seeing Tennessee
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Speaker 1: play last week and seeing the Jaguars improved, I think
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have a shot in and have a really
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Speaker 1: a realistic shot to get back in the division race.
1:03
Speaker 1: Strange as that seems, Ryan, you know, when you look
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Speaker 1: at the Titans and because of the bye week, I
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Speaker 1: got a chance to get a good look at him
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Speaker 1: last week. There are opportunities for the Jaguars, who my
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Speaker 1: main optimism is based on the fact that at the
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Speaker 1: end of that game last week they were a rising team.
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Speaker 1: They were getting better. Now, the distractions and a week
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Speaker 1: as weird as any I can remember in Jaguars history
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Speaker 1: may have thwarted that somewhat, but I still think there
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Speaker 1: are matchups that Jaguars can take advantage of, and I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to talk about them. GP All right, let's get
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Speaker 1: to the big things today then, and start off with
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer and the team a big job this week
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Speaker 1: to shift the focus from him to the Jaguars players.
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Speaker 1: And for Urban it's all about the locker room. That's
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Speaker 1: my responsibility to earn their trust back as a leader,
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Speaker 1: as a guy that I'm very close with a bunch
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Speaker 1: of them, and it's a It's always been that way
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Speaker 1: with with our teams and organizations. This as a player's team,
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Speaker 1: it's a player's organization. Our job is to direct them.
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Speaker 1: But third the decision makers in an organization. Big number,
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Speaker 1: big thing number two. Sorry, Urban, it's Trevor's time. The
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Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterback. It's all about the quarterback now. If they're
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Speaker 1: going to win, somebody has to rally the locker room
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Speaker 1: from inside, and it seems like it's Lawrence's time and
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Speaker 1: he knows what happened last week can't happen. This team
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Speaker 1: has to learn how to finish. We're focused like that
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Speaker 1: hasn't changed. Um, when we get out there, it's it's
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Speaker 1: time to work, and meetings have been great. Communication has
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Speaker 1: been really good. Obviously, we're coming off a tough one
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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, a game we felt like we should have
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Speaker 1: won that we had, you know, we were in at
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Speaker 1: the whole game, and um, just gotta get better at finishing.
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Speaker 1: And that's where you know, we're looking to make an
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Speaker 1: improvement this week. And I feel like every week we've
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Speaker 1: gotten better. So I'm just excited to put another full
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Speaker 1: game together and go finish it. And finally, big thing
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Speaker 1: number three, priority number one. If you're going to finish
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Speaker 1: the game, you know, slow down. The running back of
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, Derrick Henry, the league's leading rusher in
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Speaker 1: attempts rushing yardage and tied for the league leading rushing touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: It's easier said than done, says Josh Allen. I know
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Speaker 1: for us as a defense man, uh, you know, one
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Speaker 1: of our main, you know, goals and priority as a
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Speaker 1: you know, for the season of goals is to stop
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Speaker 1: the run. And you know when you have a guy
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Speaker 1: that's conciderically the best friend of back in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League, who has the numbers, who has the talent,
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Speaker 1: you know, who was the heck of a back, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, especially coming from an old four
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Speaker 1: or four, and we're looking to get our first one
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Speaker 1: and we you know, trust me, believe this one was
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Speaker 1: gonna be the first one. It's gonna be a tallenge.
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Speaker 1: But you know, our job is to stop the run,
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Speaker 1: and we've been doing a heck of a job. Our
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Speaker 1: guys been busting the tails, running to the ball as
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Speaker 1: much as we can, and this is another opportunity for
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Speaker 1: us to show them, you know, how good our defensive
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Speaker 1: and we were ready for the challenge. Man, we're looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it. So that's Josh Allen. Those are big
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Speaker 1: things today. And you know, you listen to trentor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: there guys Brian and it's he sounds like a guy
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Speaker 1: who has control of the locker room. I know he
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Speaker 1: has the respect of most everybody in that room. And
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Speaker 1: this seems like a week where he can kind of
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Speaker 1: take the reins and and move this team forward. JP.
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Speaker 1: I think we'll look back at this week and say
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Speaker 1: this was the moment, you know, the Jaguars had hold.
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Speaker 1: This transition from urban Meyer being the center of all
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Speaker 1: things Jaguars to Trevor Lawrence would take a year and
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Speaker 1: they would take some of that extraneous pressure off the
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Speaker 1: quarterback and just let him focus on football. Well that's
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Speaker 1: out the window now, obviously, and so this is the
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Speaker 1: transition week. And the remarkable thing is when you listen
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Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence, who has started four four NFL games,
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Speaker 1: sounds like he is totally up for the challenge. I
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Speaker 1: love the way that he just basically said yesterday, I'm
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Speaker 1: done taking questions about urban Meyer. There's nothing more that
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Speaker 1: could be said. There are no more answers here. He's
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Speaker 1: still the coach. I still respect him, and the conversation
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Speaker 1: went right to football. This is now about Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: quicker than anyone necessarily thought it would be. But that's
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Speaker 1: where we are, and I think he's up to the challenge. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's absolutely ready for that part of it. And you're
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Speaker 1: not around very many rookies who who grasp the leadership role.
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Speaker 1: Who embraced that just naturally the way this guy is,
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Speaker 1: even if he didn't want to be a leader, people
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Speaker 1: gravitate to him. And that that's clear. He can handle
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Speaker 1: himself on the podium. You never doubted all that. And
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Speaker 1: I think that will continue to grow in the locker
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Speaker 1: room as he gets better and as he gets older.
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Speaker 1: I I don't think he's as good at that yet
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Speaker 1: as he will be in two years when he absolutely
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Speaker 1: owns this franchise, owns this town, hopefully owns the league.
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Speaker 1: But he's fine with it now. They won't have a
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Speaker 1: problem with him in that role at this point. And then,
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Speaker 1: of course at the end that we heard from h Allen,
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Speaker 1: this Jaguars defense is in the league in rushing d overall,
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Speaker 1: but their number five in the league in rushing yards
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Speaker 1: allowed per play per attempt. Well, that can all get
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Speaker 1: skewed the wrong way in a big hurry against this team.
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Speaker 1: John If Derrick Henry gets loose and it becomes a
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Speaker 1: track meet down the sideline, that's trouble. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: Brian has been righting and saying all week, and he's right.
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Speaker 1: The first meeting between these teams hasn't been the huge
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Speaker 1: problem for the last two or three years. It's been
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Speaker 1: the second meeting when it gets cold. They've been up
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Speaker 1: in Tennessee twice. Sort of hurts to tackle him more.
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Speaker 1: They've been out of it, which I think is a
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Speaker 1: huge reason for the huge games Henry has had. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're out of it, it's not fun to tackle
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. It's never fun to tackle Derrick Hearny. But
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Speaker 1: when you're still in it, as the Jaguars believe they are, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think they'll lack motivation, will desire
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Speaker 1: to tackle him. I think they'll do fine against him.
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Speaker 1: I'm more worried about the wide receivers this week well
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Speaker 1: and JP the the the injury for yesterday showed that A. J.
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Speaker 1: Brown practiced on a limited basis and Julio Jones did not.
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Speaker 1: If it continues that way, if those two players who
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Speaker 1: were so critical to Ryan Tannehill's success in the passing game,
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Speaker 1: if they're out this week or very limited, and you
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Speaker 1: would think they would be hamstrings. For wide receivers tend
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Speaker 1: to be things that be they're more problematic than they
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Speaker 1: are for a lot of other positions because those guys
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Speaker 1: turn it up and go down the field. The Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: If that's the case, we'll be able to creep safeties
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Speaker 1: closer to the line of scrimmage and get to Derrick
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Speaker 1: Henry faster than they might not be able to have
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Speaker 1: those guys been in the lineup, or if those guys
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Speaker 1: were full strength. I love watching Derrick Henry run, except
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Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, and you know how it goes with him.
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Speaker 1: You know it's in the first quarter. You know it's
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Speaker 1: three yards, four yards, two yards, one yard and then boom,
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Speaker 1: seventy four yards for a touchdown like he did here
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Speaker 1: last year. I mean, the guy is so big and
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Speaker 1: powerful and yet deceptively fast because when he gets those
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Speaker 1: legs in that long stride going, but you just you
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Speaker 1: don't have enough body mask to take you down because
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Speaker 1: you can only get one of those big legs. So
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Speaker 1: there you haven't. Looking at Derrick Henry's numbers against the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars all time, just over a thousand yards in ten games.
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Speaker 1: That includes six starts, eleven touchdowns on the ground against
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Speaker 1: the Jags one through the air. It was kind of
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Speaker 1: a screen pass. In Week seventeen of the seventeen season,
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Speaker 1: that he took sixty six yards for another touchdown as well,
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Speaker 1: and he has been involved a little bit more in
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Speaker 1: the passing game as of late for Tennessee. Those are
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Speaker 1: this morning? I'm going with a new tight end, Dan
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Speaker 1: Arnold after ten days. Here's what he will do this
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Speaker 1: week against the Titans JP. He'll move the chains, which
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Speaker 1: is the key to this football team finding a way
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Speaker 1: to be in it at the end. They cannot convert
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Speaker 1: just on third down, which is what they're doing through
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Speaker 1: four games. They've got to be able to put the
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Speaker 1: ball in the end zone at the end of long
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Speaker 1: drives and not settle for field goals. He made two
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Speaker 1: really good catches, and he had been with the club
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Speaker 1: what three or four days by the time they got
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati He's had more time now to be able
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Speaker 1: to get into some sort of a rhythm and understanding.
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Speaker 1: He is a deceptively athletic guy, and I think he'll
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Speaker 1: move the chains on Sunday. You know, he won't remind
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Speaker 1: anybody of Travis Kelsey or George Kittle or the top
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Speaker 1: tight ends in the National Football League. He's not that guy,
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Speaker 1: but he might be the guy that's the difference maker
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Speaker 1: between this team winning three or four games or five
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Speaker 1: or six games, because I think he's got the skill
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Speaker 1: set to hike the length, the athleticism to be that
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Speaker 1: dependable guy. John has talked about it for years. Relative
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Speaker 1: to all Jaguars quarterbacks. They need somebody who's going to
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Speaker 1: be where he's supposed to be and then be able
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Speaker 1: to be there and make a play. Dan Arnold looks
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Speaker 1: like the kind of guy from his days that I
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Speaker 1: watched him last year in Arizona. He looks like the
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Speaker 1: kind of guy who will be where he's supposed to
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Speaker 1: be and then he'll make a play above the excess
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Speaker 1: and os to move the chains or score a touchdown
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Speaker 1: in the red zone. That's Uh, that's a good one
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Speaker 1: to get us started today. I'm gonna go next, and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Jamal Agnew. I believe he'll get
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Speaker 1: more offensive snaps because that's been the trend the last
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Speaker 1: week or two. Uh. He won't take a kick back
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Speaker 1: this week. Historically the kicker for the Tennessee Titans, who
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Speaker 1: is Randy Bullock, has now this year, nineteen kickoffs ten touchbacks,
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Speaker 1: but in the past a lot more have gone into
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Is he willing to bring them out?
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Speaker 1: I would say no. Odds are no, he won't do that,
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Speaker 1: but he might get five to seven touches on offense
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Speaker 1: this week. He's become a little bit more of a
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Speaker 1: need now because of the absence of d J charc
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Speaker 1: at wide receiver. They need somebody else to step in
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Speaker 1: and do some things on offense. He took a handoff
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Speaker 1: last week. Whatever those touches are, I think Jamal Agnew
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Speaker 1: has a little bit more of a role and that
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Speaker 1: is my selection today, John John, who you got? I
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Speaker 1: went with Damien Wilson, and I could have gone with
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Speaker 1: pretty much any defensive interior player of safety for this
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Speaker 1: because it's about Derrick Henry. Uh, he will Damian Wilson,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars middle linebacker get plenty of opportunities to show why
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Speaker 1: they got him in the off season. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: team needs to stop Derrick Henry. Uh, the middle linebacker
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Speaker 1: will get his opportunities. Uh. He won't knocking back with
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Speaker 1: I don't think many people knocking backwards. Although Jaguars fans
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Speaker 1: would be right to say that Quincy Williams did so. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's fair to expect the guys left on this team
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Speaker 1: to do that, but I'm not sure it read lists
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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen very often. But he might j P.
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Speaker 1: He might do it once in a big situation and
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Speaker 1: that and that's really what you need. Damien Wilson. I
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Speaker 1: think you guys would agree watching him, he may be
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Speaker 1: the hardest hitter at that position that I've seen on
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Speaker 1: this team in a while, maybe since pause. With the
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Speaker 1: ability to knock back. He's a tough guy. He likes
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Speaker 1: old school street fight type things. Well, Uh, he's got
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Speaker 1: it this week. Johnny's the hardest hitter since Quincy Williams.
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Speaker 1: That's a mistake kind of like Darryl Smith was. Quincy
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Speaker 1: Williams is a good football player. They should have kept him.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, he showed it like he got a big
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Speaker 1: game in New York with the jetson number fifty six
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Speaker 1: in green running around everywhere. And that was not Jeff Logoman.
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Speaker 1: That was Quincy Williams riding around this past Sunday. By
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Speaker 1: the way, uh, Damien Wilson listed at six ft. So
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Speaker 1: he's got some some some size to him and uses
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Speaker 1: in a moment with the state of the South, the
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Speaker 1: a f C South that is not quite the strongest
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Speaker 1: As we get ready for week number five in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League, the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans coming
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Speaker 1: up Sunday at t I A thank Field. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a look at the a f C South standings through
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Speaker 1: week four and it's ugly. Oh boy, Tennessee at two
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Speaker 1: and two, Houston and Indie at one in three each.
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Speaker 1: Houston as a type breaker, there was a division win
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville at the bottom oh M four. But as we
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Speaker 1: said earlier, John, a win for the Jaguars over in Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: the Jags would be a game behind what would then
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Speaker 1: be first place at two and three. Um, there are
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Speaker 1: better divisions in football right now. But this is the
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Speaker 1: state of the South, john Well, and you take what
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Speaker 1: you can get. I mean, there's been plenty opportunities right
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Speaker 1: now for the Jaguars. They have to look at it
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Speaker 1: like the first four games don't exist. It's the thirteen
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Speaker 1: games Season's strange, that sounds to say, but it's, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, there are plenty of cases. If you look
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Speaker 1: at it at thirteen games, you figure eight and five
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Speaker 1: over those games. I think it gets you in nine
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Speaker 1: and four maybe, and that enfour is a normal playoffs
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Speaker 1: season for a lot of teams, you know. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: they should reset this and say, you know what, the
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Speaker 1: first four don't matter if we play well, we got
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Speaker 1: to start at this thing. Uh, it's a gift from above.
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Speaker 1: I guess you know. What stands out to me, JP
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Speaker 1: is that the Titans and took the Colts to some extent,
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Speaker 1: have been vulnerable through the first month of the season
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Speaker 1: because of injuries. I mean, the Colts have been well
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Speaker 1: documented along their offensive line, and when you look last week,
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Speaker 1: the Titans lost their left tackle, their center, and their
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Speaker 1: right guard for a portion of the game. That all
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Speaker 1: have suffered through injuries, which has allowed Ryan Tannehill to
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Speaker 1: be sacked. He was like seven times against the Jets,
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Speaker 1: five times, probably six times against the Cardinals, and Chandler
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Speaker 1: Jones got five of those. So he's been hit a lot.
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Speaker 1: When the passing game isn't working, teams normally have been
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Speaker 1: able to slow down the run. Derrick Henry has been
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Speaker 1: off to a ferocious pace. I think the Titans are
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Speaker 1: the most talented team in this division, but right now
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Speaker 1: they and the Colts have been battling some injuries in
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Speaker 1: a very difficult early starting schedule to put themselves in
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Speaker 1: a position where the Jaguars could strike. All right, you
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Speaker 1: mentioned this early schedule. Let's look ahead to the next
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Speaker 1: five weeks for all the teams in the division and
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Speaker 1: pain all throughout for all four it looks like there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of Buffalo on the schedule. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have Tennessee this week in London, next a bye
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Speaker 1: week at Seattle, and then Buffalo week nine. That's tough.
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Speaker 1: The Texans have the Patriots there, at Andy, at Arizona
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Speaker 1: home against the Rams, and then at Miami, Colts at Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: Houston at San Franz, Tennessee and the Jets. That might
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Speaker 1: be the easiest. And then the Titans have the Jags
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Ksey Indian at the Rams. A lot of Buffalo
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Speaker 1: and Rams. That's not a good combo for the South
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Speaker 1: Bran No and in the West JP Party. The NFC
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Speaker 1: West is so very talented and it's part of the
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Speaker 1: the a f C South rotation this year. And the
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Speaker 1: way that this thing falls out again, if the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: can get a win on Sunday, when you look at
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Speaker 1: the way that the schedule falls, they could stay in
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Speaker 1: this thing because you've got trips by the Titans to
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Speaker 1: San Francisco or Los Angeles for the Colds I and
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Speaker 1: there's just opportunities because of a very difficult schedule for
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Speaker 1: this division this year. Then if the Jaguars can send
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Speaker 1: how you know, find subtraction, they can stay in it.
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Speaker 1: And look, look, this is not a playoff team. I
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Speaker 1: think we've been talking about that since Urban Bravers got here,
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Speaker 1: since Trevor Lawrence was drafted. But what we hoped was
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Speaker 1: that this year, at some point in October, not October,
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Speaker 1: November or December, we could say hey, they're still in it.
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Speaker 1: If because we haven't been able to do that since
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen around here. So if you could have a
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Speaker 1: team that a win here and the Titans lose and
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Speaker 1: the Colts win, kind of thing, that would be great
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Speaker 1: for it won't it won't subsist beyond that because the
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Speaker 1: expectations are going to jump exponentially, John, But if the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars can find a little bit of tracts and just
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Speaker 1: to make it interesting, I think the fans would really
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Speaker 1: enjoy that. Yeah, no question. It's fascinating to look at
19:03
Speaker 1: the graphic we just showed up because I do still
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Speaker 1: believe that the Titans, when healthy, are a team that
19:10
Speaker 1: can start running off games. Um. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're going to run off games
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Speaker 1: against this schedule, So they're a team that I think
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Speaker 1: is gonna play better as the season goes on. I
19:21
Speaker 1: always say about the Titans, they know how they want
19:24
Speaker 1: to play, and they play their strength, which in the
19:27
Speaker 1: NFL is a is a big deal because there are
19:29
Speaker 1: some teams that don't have an identity, but they could
19:32
Speaker 1: play better. But if they lose this week, the Titans
19:36
Speaker 1: all of a sudden two and three and then it's
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Speaker 1: hard to see a four and one stretch here for them.
19:43
Speaker 1: So beating the Titans keeps them in range. I think
19:48
Speaker 1: for the next six weeks or so. Lose to them. Uh,
19:52
Speaker 1: you think a three game gap. This team is not
19:55
Speaker 1: going to a wild card. I think three games down
19:57
Speaker 1: the division. Uh. It sounds stupid bid for an own
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Speaker 1: four team to be talking about it must win. This
20:04
Speaker 1: sort of feels like that within the context of our
20:08
Speaker 1: conversation today, no doubt, because if you let that horse
20:11
Speaker 1: get loose, you won't be able to catch him. And
20:13
Speaker 1: that that horses the Tennessee Titans. So I gotta get
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Speaker 1: something done this week. We'll come back in a moment
20:19
Speaker 1: and we're gonna look ahead to Monday's headlines, but we're
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Speaker 1: gonna offer them up today. It's Jack's Drive Time on
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Speaker 1: Rashal Sullivan, Brian Sexton, John Oshan, The Jaguars and the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, and an ANFC South Battle one o'clock Sunday
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Speaker 1: at t I A. Bank Field. It's Week five. The
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Speaker 1: Jacks are trying to snap a nineteen game losing skid
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Speaker 1: and avoid become the third team in league history to
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Speaker 1: have dropped twenty or more consecutive games. Will go ahead,
21:06
Speaker 1: and let's don't knock that out. That's just painful to say.
21:09
Speaker 1: I don't even want to have that as a conversation.
21:11
Speaker 1: It's already conversation point around the NFL. But the closer
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Speaker 1: they get, the louder that will be. So let's move
21:19
Speaker 1: ahead to Monday's headlines today, Brian, what you got for us? Well,
21:24
Speaker 1: you know, great headlines are clever and tricky, and not
21:28
Speaker 1: that I'm either of those, but this one is just
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Speaker 1: too easy. And it's there's number one and it could
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Speaker 1: be win number one, which I'm saying they'll get the
21:36
Speaker 1: win this week. They'll stun the Titans in the NFL.
21:39
Speaker 1: Despite all the off the field shenanigans, they will get
21:43
Speaker 1: win number one. So there's number one. But the other
21:45
Speaker 1: side of the coin is is there's number one, meaning
21:47
Speaker 1: the number one overall draft pick. There's Trevor Lawrence where
21:50
Speaker 1: we see him put a complete game together and go
21:53
Speaker 1: on a game winning drive, and so it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: two fold. It's win number one. And the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick upping into the primary rule is the face
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Speaker 1: of the franchise. Al Right, that's a pretty good one.
22:04
Speaker 1: I'll follow it up with improvement. Improvement is my headline. Well, John,
22:11
Speaker 1: I think you wrote this. I might be stealing from
22:13
Speaker 1: you a little bit, but whatever, Um, improvement. Only improvement
22:17
Speaker 1: left is winning, right. I mean they've done everything else.
22:21
Speaker 1: They've gotten better week to week. They've lost second half
22:25
Speaker 1: to score leads the last two weeks and a couple
22:27
Speaker 1: of different ways. I mean, they were up fourteen, nothing
22:30
Speaker 1: could have been three scores at halftime. Last week, they
22:32
Speaker 1: didn't do it, and they lost the game UM on
22:35
Speaker 1: the last second field goal. The only thing left is
22:38
Speaker 1: to improve another step, and that's to finish the game
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Speaker 1: and win it. So improvement is mine, John, take us home? Yeah,
22:48
Speaker 1: I mean I guess I'm gonna throw water on it.
22:49
Speaker 1: Mine is not yet. Uh Yeah. I don't think they're
22:53
Speaker 1: gonna play poorly. I don't think they're gonna regress. But
22:57
Speaker 1: I look at it from the from the Titan. I mean,
22:59
Speaker 1: I've right from the Titans point of view. You're two
23:02
Speaker 1: and two, you think you're pretty good. You think you're
23:05
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs and you just lost to the
23:08
Speaker 1: windless Jets. This is a desperation game for this franchise.
23:13
Speaker 1: Uh Me and the Titans. They're desperate, they know what
23:17
Speaker 1: they want to do, they know how to play. I
23:19
Speaker 1: think this is one of those games. It might even
23:20
Speaker 1: get weird, but that the playoff contending team figures out
23:25
Speaker 1: a way to beat the team that's not quite there yet.
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Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong, but my headline is not yet.
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Speaker 1: You have it, um interesting interesting headlines for Monday coming up,
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Speaker 1: and week five is right around the corner. Guys, appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Good to be with you and we'll catch you as
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Speaker 1: the week goes along here. Thanks all right, os, you're
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Speaker 1: out of here. Brian Sexton, out of here. Thanks toue trimpada.
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Speaker 1: Brent Reaverer. On the back end of today's show, my
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Speaker 1: name's J. P. Shadrick, Thank you for watching. It's Jack's
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