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Interview: NFL Network host Rich Eisen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We did the Bucks and Panthers in weeks six at
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  Speaker 1: the other facility, if you will. That's um that's been
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  Speaker 1: uh used for London games at Tottenham Hotspur. We did
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  Speaker 1: that game between the Bucks and Panthers there and the
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  Speaker 1: scene is amazing. But you know, many Jaguar fans who
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  Speaker 1: have taken the trip over to the UK know that
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  Speaker 1: it's an intense environment, that it's filled with Americans who
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  Speaker 1: live over in London and many Brits who are becoming
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  Speaker 1: fans of the game. And obviously because the Jaguars have
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  Speaker 1: made the trip the most and have had a presence
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  Speaker 1: there almost annually. Um they're the team, I guess the
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  Speaker 1: adopted team in many ways of of the UK fan
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  Speaker 1: um and um, and I look forward to seeing what
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  Speaker 1: the scene looks like for a pretty damn big football
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  Speaker 1: game Week nine, no doubt about it. In the a
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  Speaker 1: f C South, you know the NFL a little more
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  Speaker 1: on London here, the leagues cultivated that market over the
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  Speaker 1: years now and they have obviously four games this season.
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  Speaker 1: It's taken some time. I guess. The last trick to
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  Speaker 1: to you know, have a team over there at some
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  Speaker 1: point is the football logistics side of things that's really
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  Speaker 1: the only thing left, right. I just don't know, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, you know, um, how how viable
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  Speaker 1: it would be to have a team over there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's just too much. It's too
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  Speaker 1: much for travel for for the visiting team. It's it
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  Speaker 1: would be too much of a h an advantage for
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  Speaker 1: whichever team does live over there when the games are
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  Speaker 1: in London, and when the games are in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: it would be such a disadvantage for the team coming
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  Speaker 1: from London. I mean, the time change is just a wallop,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. Um. Most teams, you know, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: teams take different approaches uh to coming over there depending
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  Speaker 1: on the time zone that they're that there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: their their home basis from I mean, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders, being in Oakland, decided to go straight from
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis and spend the entire week out in London, which
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  Speaker 1: is very costly. The Rams decided to stay in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: after beating Atlanta last week all the way through to
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and take a red eye uh and figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to do that. Um. Both teams won, um, but
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  Speaker 1: neither of them started from the West Coast. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just an impossibility to do that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: on top of it, um, part of being a fan
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL, as everybody knows, is taking in all
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  Speaker 1: the other games and being into it and being abreast
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  Speaker 1: of it and being into it fantasy wise. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm going over there and I'm not trust me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not complaining when I say this at all. But
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game of the weekend, um, I would proper
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  Speaker 1: to say is is Patriots at Ravens on Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: football and I'm not going to see it. They kick
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  Speaker 1: off starts at two thirty in the morning, London time.
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  Speaker 1: So all that said, though, um, the the games are
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  Speaker 1: are excellent. You know, I have friends who live in
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  Speaker 1: London who are who are uh you know, London residents
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  Speaker 1: and have you know, and our UK natives who are
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  Speaker 1: not used to seeing in game presentation like the NFL
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  Speaker 1: offers from flyovers to music, to cheerleaders to everything mascots.
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  Speaker 1: They're blown away by it and love it. So the
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  Speaker 1: most viable thing might be to have a full you know,
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  Speaker 1: eight game schedule in London, um. And and that might
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  Speaker 1: be the most viable thing as opposed to stationing a
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  Speaker 1: team there. Rich Eisen with us will have the call
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  Speaker 1: of the Texans Jaguars games Sunday on NFL Network if
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  Speaker 1: you have, if you'd imagined a week two of the season,
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  Speaker 1: the Jags were owned to they lost the starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: they had a six round rookie starting Jale Ramsey asked
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  Speaker 1: for a trade after that week two games. And now
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  Speaker 1: the Jags are four and four and in the hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Who would have thought that week too? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: know that. And and gardener Minsh you bless him, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he is just amazing and has been amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and and Chark has come along and four nets had
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  Speaker 1: a great and I think it's fair to call a
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  Speaker 1: bounce back season. And you know, and obviously the injury
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  Speaker 1: bug has not bitten them in the same way that
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  Speaker 1: they were bit the last time when we had them
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  Speaker 1: Week nine last year in London when half the secondary
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  Speaker 1: was banged up, and mean, you know, the other half
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  Speaker 1: of the secondary had an incident late night that that
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  Speaker 1: normally would have had them in Coughlin and Maron's doghouse
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  Speaker 1: on the spot, but they couldn't do anything but play
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  Speaker 1: the guys because they had no choice there in London,
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  Speaker 1: and they're banged up and the offensive line was decimated,
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  Speaker 1: and and it was just a totally different scene. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've got a uh more than a fighting chance, and
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  Speaker 1: and a situation with Ramsey that as as as unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: as it maybe when you, you know, trade away a
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  Speaker 1: generationally talented player like that, but at least it's handled
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  Speaker 1: and and and now here comes a team that all
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  Speaker 1: they need to do is win against the Texans team
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  Speaker 1: that comes in now without J. J. Wattbook with obviously
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  Speaker 1: a dynamic quarterback of the highest order, win this one
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  Speaker 1: year five and four going into a bye week after
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  Speaker 1: which we're we're assuming that the quarterback that you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to start, that you paid all this money for, that
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  Speaker 1: has the experience to close out and lift a team
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  Speaker 1: even higher than expect it. He's coming back. So Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: win this thing. And obviously there's the Colts in this
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  Speaker 1: Division two, and who knows what the Titans are quite honestly, Um,
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  Speaker 1: they're in the mix and and not on them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the mix to win it. Um. It's it's very
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  Speaker 1: exciting and I'm fired up to call the game. Final
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  Speaker 1: thought here with you, rich If Gardner Mintshu goes out
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  Speaker 1: and lights it up in wimbley against the Texans this
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  Speaker 1: week and has the fantastic numbers that he has all
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  Speaker 1: year long. Code Eisen, Who do you go with? Do
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  Speaker 1: you stick with you or do you know? I think
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  Speaker 1: I go to Folds. I mean, I mean you you
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  Speaker 1: hired him and paid him the money for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: He is. He is the guy who who has been
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  Speaker 1: there and done that, and that's what you really need
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  Speaker 1: to close this season out. You know that the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: are not in the position to you know, sacrifice Um
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  Speaker 1: a possible division winning season on the altar of giving
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  Speaker 1: reps to the future. You know, I mean and and
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  Speaker 1: and and to be very brutally honest, I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: often is the Jaguars been in this position of late?
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously there was that one year where they
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  Speaker 1: were Stefan Gilmore bad had passed away from going to
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But other than that, I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: a great position for the Jaguars to be in. What
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  Speaker 1: a high class problem it is to have um? And
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  Speaker 1: you hired Folds for this, and Minshew is clearly a
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  Speaker 1: special Um has a certain special it factor to him,
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  Speaker 1: and and and you've given him all of this experience.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what Folds can do, and let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: you know, when he hurt himself. It's it was one
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  Speaker 1: of the most amazing dimes that's still been dropped this season.
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  Speaker 1: Um that Folds followed through, followed through on. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that they're going to go to the to the
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  Speaker 1: veteran hand who has been there, done that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you got him, that's why you paid him, and you've
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  Speaker 1: already realized that when Folds might run his course in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the kid who is really, really special and
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  Speaker 1: who's I don't believe uh future would be stunted by
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  Speaker 1: handing the reins to Folds. I think he's got a
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  Speaker 1: good head on his shoulders and I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: meeting him on Saturday when when I meet with the
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  Speaker 1: team in advanced the broadcast