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Fred Taylor on the progress of the offense through 5 weeks | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's time for a weekly visit with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. It's Week six, the Colts
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  Speaker 1: and the Jaguars at Lucas Oil Stadium. Second time in
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  Speaker 1: a month seeing the Colts and an opportunity for the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars today to get right after back to back losses.
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  Speaker 1: And if they do that, they're back to five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two and one in the division. That would be okay.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, Fred? I'm good, JP, appreciate that. Listen, opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. You know, no better opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to erase that taste the defeat from your mouth other
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  Speaker 1: than getting out there and doing it again. Uh what's
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  Speaker 1: even better? This is my second least favorite team is
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Coats, and now you have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: beat them again and sweep them on the season at
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  Speaker 1: their place. So I think the guys should be excited
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  Speaker 1: and looking forward to this matchup. Hopefully they can get
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  Speaker 1: out there and take advantage of what the Coats are offering.
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  Speaker 1: And for me, JP, it starts with the Coats offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: They have not protected Matt Ryan and that means good.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing for a defensive front, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a young, energetic group who's looking to get after the
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  Speaker 1: passer and hopefully they could uh duplicate what they did
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  Speaker 1: and we two versus the Coats. Yeah, they sacked Ryan
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  Speaker 1: five times in the game, but they also made it
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  Speaker 1: an emphasis to stop the running game. Taylor didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much of anything in that game. He's been on the
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  Speaker 1: injury report this week. The hem Hines is on the
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  Speaker 1: injury reporter. So if they can stop that running game,
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  Speaker 1: whoever is back there for Indy, then that gives him
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to go rush the passer. But you gotta
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  Speaker 1: go get it done though. I meant you still have
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  Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. That has not been a
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  Speaker 1: given for this defense so far. The pass rushes maybe
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that's been inconsistent at the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season for this defense, right JP, Just to start there.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing they do want to do is make
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  Speaker 1: sure they got the run bottled up. They did just
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  Speaker 1: an amazing job, you know, in the early point in
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  Speaker 1: the season versus Jonathan Taylor. I took one of the
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  Speaker 1: coach running backs in one of my fantasy league. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know his name, but I handcuffed him after Saint
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  Speaker 1: Hain go down. I don't know the status of uh
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  Speaker 1: Taylor or well in earlier in the week, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know the status of Taylor and um, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: it starts there stopping the run, keeping everybody at bay,
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  Speaker 1: and then it allows the Coats to become one dimension,
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  Speaker 1: which allows the Jaguars to really you know, focus, pin
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  Speaker 1: their ears back and go after the passer. And again
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  Speaker 1: that consistency is what we need. We all need to
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  Speaker 1: be better. Oh, they all need to be better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: more consistent, especially in situations that the game brings sports.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just going back a week ago talking about situation,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just being alert and being aware of where
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  Speaker 1: you are on the field, you know the clock, you
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  Speaker 1: know at what point during the game you are. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just the chess match. You know. We always say
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  Speaker 1: football is chess, especially the professional level, Football is the
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  Speaker 1: game of chess. And the players got to understand that
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  Speaker 1: more than just hearing it as cliche. It's really a
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  Speaker 1: battle of field position. It's really, uh you know, if
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  Speaker 1: I can take two plays to convert you know, this
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  Speaker 1: first down, which is four yards, then I have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to call my favorite two plays in that
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  Speaker 1: situation and trying to execute accordingly. Uh So, these guys
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  Speaker 1: really just gotta go up there, JP just just go
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  Speaker 1: all out, go all out, let it hang and worry
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  Speaker 1: about whatever happens after that. Prior of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor with us, the Jaguars offense has been
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  Speaker 1: under the fan microscope this week. They were over three
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone last week, of course, and the
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  Speaker 1: interception from Trevor Lawrence. And now that's seven giveaways from
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback over the last two weeks. Five in that
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  Speaker 1: Philly game of course, four fumbles and then to last
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  Speaker 1: week including the desperation pass up again the one of
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  Speaker 1: the red zoners. What's got everybody twisted up? I think
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  Speaker 1: this week with the young quarterback making a bad decision there.
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  Speaker 1: But you just gotta fight through this thing. If you're
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. It's game number six in a new offense,
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  Speaker 1: with the new coaching staff, with new receivers, and you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta fight through it and keep playing and then
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  Speaker 1: those better decisions in theory should come down the line
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  Speaker 1: without a doubt. And I I saw some of those
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  Speaker 1: comments through social media channels earlier in the week, and
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  Speaker 1: uh they were brutal. I mean they were I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you this. Fans are creative. They come up with
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  Speaker 1: the craziest stuff. But you know it's part of it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also part of becoming a fanatic. You know,
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  Speaker 1: any great relationship, it's gonna be some evan flows, some
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs, peaks and valleys. You just gotta be
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  Speaker 1: willing to climb those peaks, try and get to the top.
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  Speaker 1: And when you slide in the valley, you just gotta
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  Speaker 1: realize this is the roller coaster I signed up for.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Jaguar fan, no matter where you are,
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  Speaker 1: this is part of sport. This is what you know.
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  Speaker 1: Part of UH developing that tradition and and and becoming
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  Speaker 1: the fanatic is you know, I wake up the same way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Jaguars fan, you know, UH, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the upstanded downs and you know I
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  Speaker 1: have to deal when Trevor doesn't make the best decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I have to deal when a young Trevor and Walker
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make the best decision. UH and get penalized, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and UH extends drives and all those other guys
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  Speaker 1: I just name the more um uh visible guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because they were the most recent number one selected in
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  Speaker 1: the draft. So pressure comes with that. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: in all fairness to Trevor, as you mentioned, he's brand
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  Speaker 1: new in a in a new system. When things are
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  Speaker 1: going well, people don't always look at the mistakes we make.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they tend to get covered up, but when
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  Speaker 1: they go back at they're magnified. Right, So Trevor is
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  Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna be okay. Uh, No need to try
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  Speaker 1: and crown him God right now. He Uh. If you
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  Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen in Buffalo Bills, Josh struggled for
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  Speaker 1: three years. The first three years. Usually that's the point
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  Speaker 1: when they say, okay, well are we gonna get another
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  Speaker 1: player in here? So each player has about a three
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  Speaker 1: year window, you know, to show if he has greatness
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  Speaker 1: in him or if he can manage the team. So
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  Speaker 1: Trevor has some time. You know, he'll figure these things out.
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  Speaker 1: He'll make better decisions. Just hopefully he can make them
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  Speaker 1: sooner than later. Fred Taylor with us And in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the offense, I mean this is for Doug Peterson.
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  Speaker 1: It goes through the quarterback. It's a passing first. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw at ninety percent of the time, but of
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  Speaker 1: the time it's gonna be passing, and these short passes
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  Speaker 1: to running backs and tight ends they kind of consider
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  Speaker 1: runs that other people might think, Hey, just handed off
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  Speaker 1: to the guy. Well, it's not how this offense is designed.
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  Speaker 1: That's not how the lineage of this offense going back
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  Speaker 1: to Green Bay days and then to Walsh and San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco where that tree really started through the quarterback. And
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  Speaker 1: I think people have to adjust, you know. I've been
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  Speaker 1: saying all week that they're used to you, Maurice Jones,
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  Speaker 1: Drew James Stewart wonard for that carrying the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty times a game. In this day and age, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to keep up with teams that are putting thirty
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  Speaker 1: five on the board every week. When you're doing that.
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  Speaker 1: That's I think the point here, Yeah, and I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you. They it's an offense. It's a quarterback driven league,
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  Speaker 1: you know, tilted towards offenses. The rules changes have been
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  Speaker 1: tilted towards increased scoring over the years, so things have changed,
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  Speaker 1: the game has evolved, and I think people that are
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the past gotta you know, take a leap,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and catch up what everybody that's here now
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  Speaker 1: watching a game today, because you know, it's rare that
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  Speaker 1: the running backs getting thirty carries, that alone, thirty touches,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm talking you know a certain amount of attempts
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  Speaker 1: in the past game, you know, checkdowns, short routes where
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  Speaker 1: they're depending on you to win one on ones underneath
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  Speaker 1: as well as you know, twenty plus touches. So imagine
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  Speaker 1: twenty carries on the ground and another ten catches through
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  Speaker 1: the air. I think I did that my first well,
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  Speaker 1: the game I came in for James Stewart against Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: I had something close to that that equaled about thirty touches.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just the games evolved. It's a quarterback driven league.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think those guys are getting the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the big nine figure deals while everybody else is you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the low or the mid hundreds, but not
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  Speaker 1: mid hundreds, but like fifties or whatever. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: looking at coach Peterson, look at it, he's a quarterback, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean quarterbacks what quarterbacks want to do that I
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  Speaker 1: want to turn around and hand it off. It's just
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  Speaker 1: gonna forever be his mentality. He's a quarterback, a former quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, in essence, he wants to come out
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  Speaker 1: and try and throw the ball. He want to get
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  Speaker 1: He want to get his young quarterback right and up
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  Speaker 1: to part. He wants him to uh throw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: But through creativity, you know, everything isn't gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: sixty five yard chump down the field. You know, they'll
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of those when they have it. But he
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  Speaker 1: has to hit those and a few overthrows a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of drips here and there, But
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  Speaker 1: they got to get on the same page at the
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  Speaker 1: very end of the day. They just have to find
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  Speaker 1: way to execute the regardless of the play calls. No
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  Speaker 1: one complained when the Patriots, We're dinking and dunking for
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  Speaker 1: a decade, dinking and dunking for a decade, a triple
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  Speaker 1: d I like that, all right, So uh hey, just
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  Speaker 1: win the game. That's what I'm trying to say. Just
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  Speaker 1: just win. When you work with words, words or your work, friend,
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that final thunt. How you
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  Speaker 1: feeling about the game this week? Is this? Is this
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  Speaker 1: gettable to the Jags? I mean, if I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I ever felt any better about the game a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so as you started off by saying, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: just gotta go do it, you know. Uh, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: just do it. It's one of those things, man, we
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  Speaker 1: we get hyped up about this and that. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the coach the coach are playing better ball than they
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  Speaker 1: played in week two. Regardless of who's out there, they're
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  Speaker 1: playing bred of ball. I won't call this a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Fans are looking at me, they're tweeting me and coming
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  Speaker 1: to my d MS and say, hey, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot. Like, Look, this isn't a gambling machine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving you picks, you know, but when I
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  Speaker 1: feel it, I'll say it. And uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to see these guys go out there. Maybe at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter. I can try to
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  Speaker 1: call it for a second half. But I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just wish, well, everybody's going in the d MS.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody sliding into the d M s now Man, they
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  Speaker 1: are in a d M s Can I get a pick? Huh? Like, No,
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  Speaker 1: don't put me on the end of that. No, do
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  Speaker 1: not put me on the end of that. Hey, Jaguar fans,
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  Speaker 1: No picks from Freddy Okay, he's off the clock, folks.
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  Speaker 1: No picks from Fred Taylor. We'll talk to you in
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  Speaker 1: the post game. Fred, appreciate it all right, Looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that one.