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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Jaguars Reporters. In his Tuesday
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Speaker 1: Week four coming up, we'll look ahead to the Falcons
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Speaker 1: Jaguars game at Wimbley in London, the first of back
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Speaker 1: to back games for the Jaguars in the UK. But
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Speaker 1: the first part of this podcast, by the way, JP Shadwick,
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Speaker 1: Kai Stevens, Brian Sexton, John Oser to the Jaguars Reporters,
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Speaker 1: hence the name we review week three. The Texans came
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Speaker 1: in here and knocked off the Jaguars thirty seven seventeen,
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Speaker 1: and we heard from Doug Peterson on Monday and seemed
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Speaker 1: a little more collected than he was after the game. Kai,
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Speaker 1: he didn't have any answers Sunday afternoon and into the
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Speaker 1: evening just and you could tell by the tone that
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Speaker 1: he was just so almost aghast at what had happened.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he had been around a performance like
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Speaker 1: that before, and just trying to make sense of where
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Speaker 1: this team is right now. But what did you just
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Speaker 1: see moving forward from Doug on Monday?
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Speaker 2: Well, I was with Doug on Sunday where I was like,
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Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen anything that looked quite like
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Speaker 2: that either, because it was all phases of the game. Normally,
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Speaker 2: if you lose a football game, it's one or two things,
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Speaker 2: not offense, defense and special teams, making errors, mental mistakes, drops,
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Speaker 2: just physical mistakes, penalties, dumb penalties, and I think I'm
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Speaker 2: assuming I'm not going to speak for Doug himself, but
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Speaker 2: when you look at the tape, I would find some
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Speaker 2: solace in the fact that you're doing this to yourself.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you're going out there with a roster
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Speaker 2: that's not good enough and you're just getting out worked.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of the mistakes and the problems
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Speaker 2: are what you are doing, so in that regard, at
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Speaker 2: least one would think once you identify them, you should
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Speaker 2: be able to fix them.
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Speaker 3: You ever been in your pantry and you reach up
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Speaker 3: for a can and you knock over a can, that
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Speaker 3: knocks over the rice, that knocks over the pancake mix,
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Speaker 3: and everything comes falling down at you and you're trying
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Speaker 3: to catch it all at once. That must be what
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Speaker 3: it feels like to be the Jaguars head coach right now?
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Speaker 4: What's your home life cover?
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Speaker 3: I've had that moment where you reach for something you
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Speaker 3: think this is gonna be really easy. I thought the
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Speaker 3: Texans game should be easy for them, and all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, now you're trying to catch things like how
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Speaker 3: did this happen?
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Speaker 5: Right?
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Speaker 3: That must be what it must feel like at times
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Speaker 3: for Doug this week, because you know, last week you're
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Speaker 3: trying to get your offense started, and this week it's
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Speaker 3: not just the offense it's coming at you. It's the
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Speaker 3: defensive problems and special teams on top of it. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's like, please stop, someone to help me pick this up.
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Speaker 6: It sounds like he was optimistic and liked what he
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Speaker 6: heard from players after the game when he.
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Speaker 5: Talked to him.
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Speaker 6: I don't know that he had talked to as many
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Speaker 6: when he talked after the game as he had on Monday.
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Speaker 6: It certainly sounded like he liked their tone and their
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Speaker 6: folks what they were saying. But I also think he
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Speaker 6: knows this is a big week. I mean, games like
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Speaker 6: last Sundays can be watershed moments in the wrong direction.
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Speaker 6: Doug's really good historically at guy teams through this. He
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Speaker 6: did it last year. I mean, this was not a
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Speaker 6: good team for the first eight weeks, and he kept
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Speaker 6: staying in the course. This felt different than that, and
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Speaker 6: he said it on Monday. You don't usually have games
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Speaker 6: where it's all three phases like that, so big moment,
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Speaker 6: and I think this is where you're glad to have
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Speaker 6: him in the room.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The last year, the first half, I mean, they were
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Speaker 1: in those games, he had fourth quarter leads and lost
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Speaker 1: to him. It wasn't like they were getting their doors
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Speaker 1: blown off on all three phases like they did on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So that's the different feel of this thing, at least
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Speaker 1: so far. And you know, it's almost uncharted water for
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and we'll see if the players can respond
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Speaker 1: this week. I mean the thing that turned the game
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Speaker 1: obviously was the kickoff return. Yeah, and they were right
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Speaker 1: there with a touchdown, they had moved the football, they
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Speaker 1: had scored twice.
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Speaker 5: All right, Well.
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Speaker 1: That happened, and I don't know if I've seen one
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 3: While I was texting with a former special teams coach
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Speaker 3: from here who I've kept in touch with through the years,
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Speaker 3: and I asked him, have you seen that before? And
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Speaker 3: he said, well, with a caveat of if you're in
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Speaker 3: this game long enough, you'll see everything. No, I've never
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Speaker 3: seen that before, And he said, it's easy to see
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Speaker 3: why it happened because you have guys who are racing
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Speaker 3: to the ball without knowing which one of those two
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Speaker 3: guys are going to pick it up. Because remember there
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Speaker 3: were two guys around the football and they just went
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Speaker 3: in there, you know, on fire, and they lost their
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Speaker 3: containment and you let a guy JP at two hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty five pounds a full back beat you to
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Speaker 3: the end zone for an eighty five yard touchdown. No,
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Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like that before. And at that moment,
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Speaker 3: I said, they're not winning this ball game. If that happens,
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Speaker 3: then everything is going wrong today.
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Speaker 6: Well, I say it's a game of inches and moments
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Speaker 6: for a reason. And I think we all felt as
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Speaker 6: poorly as we're talking about this team playing, and it
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Speaker 6: played awfully in the first half.
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Speaker 4: Doug when he was.
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Speaker 6: Talking of this, made clear that was a good kick
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Speaker 6: in terms of what they were trying to do.
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Speaker 4: It hit at the right spot, it got the result
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Speaker 4: they wanted.
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Speaker 6: It was chaos by the Texans for a minute, and
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Speaker 6: in that moment you felt like if Jaguars recover this
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Speaker 6: or it felt like momentum Jaguars had they stopped them there.
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Speaker 6: Don't you feel like this is a fourth quarter game, sure,
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Speaker 6: And so I mean that's where it's such a game
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Speaker 6: of benches sometimes that those kind of things can turn.
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Speaker 5: But it didn't.
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Speaker 6: I wish I had more alo on those lines. But
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Speaker 6: you know, Trevor after the game really summed it up.
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Speaker 6: You can't always depend on being able to come back
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Speaker 6: like they did last year, and that showed you why
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Speaker 6: when you're down one little thing that goes against you
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Speaker 6: and all of a sudden it's too much of a
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Speaker 6: mountain to climb.
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Speaker 2: You can't put yourself in that position, which is what
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Speaker 2: Trevor kind of alluded to. We put ourselves in that
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Speaker 2: position where you're depending on that and you shouldn't be
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Speaker 2: at that point. For special teams. For me, a lot
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Speaker 2: of that. Yeah, it was a weird, wacky play, but
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Speaker 2: like it's discipline at a certain level too, right, because
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Speaker 2: how much of special teams is you know, you're trying
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Speaker 2: to make the team, so you're on special teams, but
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Speaker 2: you've got to stay where you're supposed to be. And
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Speaker 2: I understand that there's that instinct of seeing the football
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Speaker 2: and you just go for it. But some of these guys,
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Speaker 2: you know, this is their sole role on the team,
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Speaker 2: is special teams. So to just completely abandon where you're
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Speaker 2: supposed to be in at that time is tough to watch.
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Speaker 5: Well, And covered teams have been pretty good around here.
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Speaker 2: They've been great, and I think that's true. That's true
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Speaker 2: as well. They you know, turned the tide in that
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Speaker 2: Colts game that return by Agnew. They've been doing that,
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Speaker 2: you know, forcing a turnover against the Chiefs that unfortunately
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Speaker 2: the JAG's offense didn't capitalize on. But they you know,
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Speaker 2: they recovered that funk. So like they've been doing great
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Speaker 2: and they're smart and they understand that. I think that
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Speaker 2: that's just makes it so much more frustrating because you're like,
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Speaker 2: you're smart, don't do dumb things.
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Speaker 3: Agnew might be the best example right now. Here's three
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Speaker 3: fumbles in his last four games, and those fumbles all
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Speaker 3: came at critical moments in the ball game. You talk
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Speaker 3: about someone who's pressing and trying to make a play.
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Speaker 3: We all know what he's capable of doing. He won
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Speaker 3: the game, as far as I'm concerned in Indianapolis with
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Speaker 3: his you know, forty six yard punt return. Here's a
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Speaker 3: guy who last week, you know, trying to make a play,
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Speaker 3: trying to get ahead of Kansas City feeling the heat,
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Speaker 3: and then you know, yesterday you got the ball and
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Speaker 3: you're in a perfect spot to at least get a
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Speaker 3: field goal, maybe a touchdown in behalf.
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Speaker 1: He had both arms on it. He took a heck
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Speaker 1: of a look either way. I don't know what he
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Speaker 1: had every He did everything right and still.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes it doesn't work for you.
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Speaker 3: But he's If I use any player as an example
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Speaker 3: of trying to make a play, I think of him.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Andrew Beck, the fullback, started his career
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen with Denver as a tight end. He
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Speaker 1: had five, just making it worse, five your cherries in
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Speaker 1: the NFL in his career.
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Speaker 5: He should have seen his la and.
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Speaker 1: He had fourteen catches in the NFL in his career
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Speaker 1: before yesterday.
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Speaker 4: And good for Andrew.
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Speaker 5: He had a big smile, a big cheesy smile.
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Speaker 4: I don't blame him.
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Speaker 5: I would do.
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Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you be a I bet he did all right.
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Speaker 4: It has a great time over there.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't.
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Speaker 6: Hey.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to this Jaguars defense this past week and
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Speaker 1: the lack of pass rush on CJ. Stroud. You know,
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Speaker 1: going into the game, obviously nineteen hits eleven sacks in
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Speaker 1: two weeks on Stroud. The Jaguars had four quarterback hits,
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Speaker 1: zero sacks of Stroud. And he showed poise in the
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Speaker 1: pocket even when it was collapsing. He would step in
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Speaker 1: or slide or buy a little extra time to make
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Speaker 1: a completion. And on the big third down play Late
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Speaker 1: stood in there against a blitz. They picked it up
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Speaker 1: and they convert the first down on a long pass.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how much of that is rush? How much
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Speaker 1: of that is Stroud in the line? I mean that
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Speaker 1: was obviously the one that really got dug after the
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Speaker 1: game John when like the eight second delay, when he
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Speaker 1: was thinking about how to answer it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I took that more that he's trying to
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Speaker 6: make sure that. Like when I was asked in multiple
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Speaker 6: emails last night about the pass rush, I kept going back, Well,
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Speaker 6: the pass rush wasn't good, but you know, join the party,
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Speaker 6: what was you know, So to pick out the pass
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Speaker 6: rush out of that game, Yeah, the pass rush wasn't good,
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Speaker 6: but you know, the pass rush wasn't dropping balls in
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Speaker 6: the first half, wasn't missing field goals, etc. So I
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Speaker 6: think it was really collective. And my sense was that
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Speaker 6: was why Dougs sort of had that long delay. It
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Speaker 6: was like, look, the past rust wasn't good on Sunday,
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Speaker 6: but it hadn't been bad the first two games. The
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Speaker 6: fan base really wants to hang the pass rust because
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Speaker 6: that's been such a narrative, so we have to wait
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Speaker 6: to see if that's going to be all season.
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Speaker 4: But it was not good on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: So here's where I disagree slightly. That was an offensive
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Speaker 3: line playing without one of the best left tackles in football,
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Speaker 3: with a backup left guard, with a backup center and
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Speaker 3: a backup right tackle. I think the reason I was
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Speaker 3: so incredibly confident that the Jaguars would win yesterday was
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Speaker 3: because I thought they would win the battle at the
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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage and get a quarterback who was beaten
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Speaker 3: up the first two weeks in terms of being hit
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Speaker 3: and sack they get him on the ground. I just
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Speaker 3: I figured that was a matchup the Jaguars are gonna win. Hey,
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Speaker 3: maybe Josh Allen's shoulder was giving him more problems, but
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Speaker 3: you know where was tray Von kay Levon got a
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Speaker 3: couple of hits, but it was just so inconsistent against
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Speaker 3: a bad offensive line. That's The part that I'm chewing
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Speaker 3: on mentally this week is neither line played well and
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Speaker 3: neither line for Houston was overly talented or healthy.
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Speaker 2: Tug was asked about it again on Monday, kind of
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Speaker 2: the same question about what's up with the pass rush,
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Speaker 2: and he did a shorter pause this time and he said,
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Speaker 2: I think it comes down to want to. Right we
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Speaker 2: have where they're putting all their full faith in them.
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Speaker 2: Those guys need to want to be pass rushers. We
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Speaker 2: see that from Josh at times, but as we mentioned,
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Speaker 2: he has been dealing with a shoulder injury. Not to
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Speaker 2: couch that for him, but that's got to be part
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Speaker 2: of the equation. But other than Josh, I don't.
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Speaker 4: Really see that.
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Speaker 2: I have not seen so far this season that want
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Speaker 2: to that just I'm gonna get there no matter what.
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Speaker 2: And if you don't have that, you can't have a
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Speaker 2: successful pass rush.
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Speaker 1: Final thought about last week's game in the offense and
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Speaker 1: cal Ridley, a couple of drops, a couple of false starts.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson talked about it Monday, also having to kind
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Speaker 1: of go up to him on the sideline, keep him
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Speaker 1: involved and remind him, hey, we need you, we need
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Speaker 1: your your energy. We need your mindset and your talent
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Speaker 1: in this game. And you know, it's a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks in a row. He's been quiet, John, You got
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Speaker 1: to get him on track at some point.
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Speaker 6: Well, I thought his answer to your question JP was
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Speaker 6: pretty insightful. And you know, it's hard to really know
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Speaker 6: always what pressing looks like because it's hard to look
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Speaker 6: at one play and so, well, this guy was pressing.
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Speaker 6: Maybe he just got hit like Jamal Agnet. But I
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Speaker 6: I'm hard pressed to find a better look at what
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Speaker 6: pressing looks like than what Calvins looked like last couple
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Speaker 6: of weeks.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's like a desire form.
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Speaker 6: I don't think it's a lack of ability, but it
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Speaker 6: does seem like he wants to score three touchdowns on
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Speaker 6: every play, and he's capable of scoring at least one
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Speaker 6: on every play. The first play, the first drive of
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Speaker 6: the game and again, and Calvin is gonna be good
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Speaker 6: for this team. First drive of the game, that drop
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Speaker 6: was a killer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was a hard.
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Speaker 6: Catch, but it's also the kind of catch that I
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Speaker 6: know if you asked Calvin, he said, well, yeah, probably
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Speaker 6: bothered him for a couple of series, because that's when
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Speaker 6: he should have made He's on TV. If he makes it,
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Speaker 6: it's his moment, and he dropped it, and it does
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Speaker 6: look like he is. Really I'm not even sure it's rust.
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Speaker 6: I think it's more just anxiety over effort on every play.
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Speaker 3: I imagine who's GOODA this week? I mean it's former team, right.
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Speaker 3: So I said on our JAG's AM show on Monday
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Speaker 3: that I thought that they needed to lean away from Calvin,
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Speaker 3: not Doug intimated that maybe they were trying to do
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Speaker 3: a little bit of that, but it feels to me
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Speaker 3: like they have tweaked this offense to be Calvin Ridley focused.
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Speaker 3: And last year you didn't have that alpha, right, but
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Speaker 3: you had Christian Kirk who had a career year, Evan
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Speaker 3: Ingram who had a career is a Jones who had
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Speaker 3: a career year. So you know, my overly simplistic idea
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Speaker 3: is lean back in the other direction and make him
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Speaker 3: part of it until he's comfortable enough to be that
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Speaker 3: focal guy. Big challenge this week for Chadhall, press Taylor
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Speaker 3: and the head coach because I imagine if he's anxious
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Speaker 3: in a game against the Texans my word, right, but
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Speaker 3: he strikes me as a guy who gets overly anxious
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Speaker 3: to make, you know, a huge play every time. Imagine
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Speaker 3: what it could be like this week at Wembley against
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Speaker 3: the Falcons. My guess is gonna be big.
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Speaker 6: I also think there's some human nature kai with if
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Speaker 6: you're Trevor and you sort of know that the offense,
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Speaker 6: a lot of it's situational. It's third and eight and
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Speaker 6: we need to play well, I like zero, yeah, and
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Speaker 6: you're back there and you're under a little bit of
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Speaker 6: pressure and your thought is well, sometimes in this situation,
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Speaker 6: I've got to throw the ball up to a guy
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Speaker 6: and trust he's going to make a play. Well in
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Speaker 6: your gut, who better to do that with than the playmaker.
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Speaker 6: So I think that's happened a couple of times where
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Speaker 6: he's throwing you know it, almost as Brian says, guy
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Speaker 6: has to be a concerted effort to say, Okay, we're
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Speaker 6: not gonna do that. I'm gonna make sure that I
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Speaker 6: distribute it. But again, I kind of get it. I
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Speaker 6: think if I was playing.
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Speaker 3: Quarterback, I'd like to load into well, yeah, you're always
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Speaker 3: gonna want to get in the fast car, right right.
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Speaker 2: We talked a lot of preseason about Calvin, of course,
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Speaker 2: we've all been excited to add him to the offense.
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Speaker 2: I was a little hesitant because I didn't know if
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Speaker 2: that trust factor was going to be there, if we
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Speaker 2: were going to see him be what we expect of
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Speaker 2: Calvin right out of the gate. Now the trust factor
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Speaker 2: has been there from Trevor. He's more than happy to
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Speaker 2: throw it up to him, and he's thrown some dimes,
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Speaker 2: some great throws and Calvin hasn't come up with it,
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Speaker 2: and that's Calvin being hard on himself. That's Calvin psyching
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Speaker 2: himself up and those are hard plays to make. He
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Speaker 2: is in double coverage, but we know he's physically able
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Speaker 2: to do that. It's just the mental aspect. And I
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Speaker 2: think now with going forward seeing how this is, there
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Speaker 2: does need to be a shift because Calvin is getting
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Speaker 2: double to that means somebody else is open. So you
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Speaker 2: have other weapons. Octave House stacked this offense is they
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Speaker 2: need to utilize that, and then when Calvin is open,
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Speaker 2: then you throw him those balls. And I think when
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Speaker 2: the focus is less on him, the spotlight is less
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Speaker 2: on him, that's when he will shine. And he's like
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Speaker 2: a streaky hitter. He's like you know, a hot shot
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Speaker 2: in basketball, like you need to get him in that groove.
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Speaker 2: You can't just go to someone that's cold and expect
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Speaker 2: them to make these crazy plays and save you when
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Speaker 2: things aren't going well.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's take this show Internationville. Well, come back in
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Speaker 1: a moment and a preview. Week four. The Falcons and
15:31
Speaker 1: Jaguars coming up. This is Jaguars Reporters. Welcome back to
15:39
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters podcast. JP Shaddock, Ryan Sexson, John Osher,
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Speaker 1: Kay Stevens. The Falcons and the Jaguars coming up at
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Speaker 1: Wimbley Stadium, London. The Jaguars have not won a game
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Speaker 1: at Wimbley since twenty seventeen. They're on a three game
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Speaker 1: skit in that building. There was no game in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: They played at Tottenham Hot Square Stadium in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: the last second field goal to beat the Dolphins. So
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Speaker 1: to get back on track in that regard, certainly, they're
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Speaker 1: playing a Falcons team that lost this past week. They're
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Speaker 1: now two and one. Bjon Robinson has really been the
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Speaker 1: star for the Falcons on offense on the ground and
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Speaker 1: he is the leading receiver in terms of catches for
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Speaker 1: the Falcons second and receiving yards. They've got tight ends.
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Speaker 1: JOHNA who Smith is there, We know all about him,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, a big fellow from Florida. It's a team
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Speaker 1: that's two and one and the Jaguars are one and two,
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Speaker 1: and you got to get this done or you think
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Speaker 1: it's hot right now?
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Speaker 2: Kai, I guess what This will be a turning point,
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Speaker 2: either good or bad after last game on Sunday. And
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Speaker 2: I don't ever say you don't want to scout your opponent,
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Speaker 2: but this really feels like a game where they need
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Speaker 2: to focus on themselves. Because if the Jaguars can get
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Speaker 2: out of their own way and play as good as
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Speaker 2: we expect a roster of this caliber to play, that
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Speaker 2: will benefit them. Yes, of course you don't want to
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Speaker 2: underscore your opponent and get away from that, but a
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Speaker 2: lot of this week I feel like needs to be
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Speaker 2: just looking at yourself in.
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Speaker 3: The You know, Desmond Ritter was under some scrutiny. The Falconans,
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Speaker 3: I should say, we're under some scrutiny for not improving
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Speaker 3: that position, not making a move in the draft to
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Speaker 3: go get a quarterback. And they said all along they
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Speaker 3: had confidence in the second year quarterback from Cincinnati. Well,
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Speaker 3: he's got enough weapons that make him look good. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you mentioned Kyle Pitts, who's what six foot six big, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's a matchup nightmare. And then John Smith. We've seen
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Speaker 3: enough of that to know what that is. But then
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Speaker 3: you got Drake London, who is coming off of an
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Speaker 3: injury year in his rookie season, who's a six foot
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Speaker 3: five wide receiver. So you've got matchup problems all over
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Speaker 3: the board. You've got to be on your game if
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Speaker 3: you're Mike Caldwell, to make sure you've got the guys
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Speaker 3: that you want. And then we you know, learned today
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Speaker 3: that there's an issue with Devin Lloyd's hand, and Devin
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Speaker 3: Lloyd's is one of those big, long coverage kind of linebackers,
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Speaker 3: and we'll wait to see whether he's even available to
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Speaker 3: them on Sunday. And of course you start focusing on
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Speaker 3: those John and all of a sudden, here comes b
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Speaker 3: Jehn Robinson. Now, the Packers did a really bad job
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Speaker 3: against him. He ran for one twenty four, he had
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Speaker 3: forty eight yards receiving. Last week the Lions, you know,
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Speaker 3: they held him to thirty three because they got a
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Speaker 3: lead and then they held them to twenty seven as
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Speaker 3: a receiver. So I mean the key to be able
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Speaker 3: to play these Falcons with all their mismatches is the
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Speaker 3: offense to put points on the board.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't agree more with what Kay said earlier. It's
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Speaker 6: it's a matchup league.
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Speaker 4: You always have to be concerned.
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Speaker 6: But if we're sitting in here every Monday breaking down
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Speaker 6: some details of what the defense did wrong, this team's
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Speaker 6: built to win offensively, the Jags, they've got to be
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Speaker 6: more reliable. You can't go six quarters at home without
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Speaker 6: a touchdown if you're this team, so to me, the focus.
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Speaker 6: I understand defense wins championships all that, but if in
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Speaker 6: the next two or three weeks you don't get a
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Speaker 6: feelings you're gonna be able to rely on this offense
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Speaker 6: to be smooth, to be productive, to be where it
18:52
Speaker 6: can flex, where you're depending on twenty seven to thirty
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Speaker 6: a game from them, they're in trouble if they're not
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Speaker 6: that kind of offense. And it's about getting their minds right,
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Speaker 6: letting it come to them, et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: All those things we're talking about.
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Speaker 6: But the thing that concerns me about that jp is
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Speaker 6: you're a baseball guy. Yeah, I mean, how many times
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Speaker 6: did you see when your home run hitter started having
19:19
Speaker 6: tight fists and you started going after a home run
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Speaker 6: on every at bat, All of a sudden, it causes
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Speaker 6: a slump because you're trying to hit it every time.
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Speaker 6: That's what you sawt to worry about with his offense
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Speaker 6: is coming out trying to hit a home run on
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Speaker 6: every play. And I'm not saying anything new. Doug talked
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Speaker 6: about it for two weeks, but they got to get
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Speaker 6: that right.
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Speaker 1: The Dolphins hit home runs on a lot of plays
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Speaker 1: this week.
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Speaker 6: Maguire going to the plate trying to jack one out every.
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Speaker 3: I went looking at it when the last time there
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Speaker 3: was a three hundred yard passer, a two hundred yard
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Speaker 3: rusher and one hundred and fifty yard receiver couldn't find it.
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Speaker 5: Wow, it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It probably hasn't.
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Speaker 4: I mean seven hundred yards offense.
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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, that's a number of touchdowns and they
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Speaker 6: were eight shy of the record or somebody you know, so.
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Speaker 5: Up yards they were three of points.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, then it's impressive.
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Speaker 5: It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: One of these days, maybe the Jaguars offense will at
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Speaker 1: least get closer to that direction than they were the
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Speaker 1: last two weeks. It's a tough schedule coming up, of
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Speaker 1: course at Wimbley. The Falcons game this Sunday, two weeks
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Speaker 1: at TOTTENHAMNT Spurs Stadium in Northeast London. It is the
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Speaker 1: Bills playing host of the Jaguars. Then it's back home
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville against the Colts, who will want to redo
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Speaker 1: of the first game, who.
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Speaker 5: Lead the division bay the way and might have Jonathan Taylor.
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Speaker 1: And then it's a short week to New Orleans right
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Speaker 1: today Thursday night football, and those are really tough.
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Speaker 5: On the road.
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Speaker 4: It's pro football, Jake po time.
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Speaker 1: They're all hard. Some are harder than most, but they're
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Speaker 1: all hard.
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Speaker 3: His team needs to stop making it difficult on themselves.
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Speaker 5: They're making it harder on themselves last two weeks than
20:56
Speaker 5: they need to within missus got to settle down and
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Speaker 5: don't make it hard that it has to be.
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Speaker 1: Let's see if they can get on track at Wimbley.
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