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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, October 10 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: I was celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. You're
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Speaker 1: run in the gun broke, He's got Jimmy put out,
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Speaker 1: putdown Jaguars. Did you Jack, Jack Warris? Did you? Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time? Ryan Sex steps that, John Oh shows it Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Good morning, Welcome to
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Speaker 1: Jack's Drive Time Thursday morning, brought to you by Fields
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Speaker 1: Auto Group, as we get ready for the Saints to
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Speaker 1: come to town that game presented by Hannonia on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: The more we talk about this game, the more I
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Speaker 1: realized how much of a challenge it's going to be
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Speaker 1: for sure on Sunday. Well, all you have to do
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Speaker 1: is look at it. By the way, good morning. Um.
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is look at the Saints
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Speaker 1: roster to understand that over time they have drafted well.
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Speaker 1: Their offensive line is filled with draft choices who are
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Speaker 1: playing well. Um Thomas sensational. The tight end they signed
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Speaker 1: Jared Cook is a guy and Jaguar fans remember him
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Speaker 1: from Tennessee and then he went to the Rams and
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Speaker 1: he has given the Jaguars problems every time they play him.
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Speaker 1: Uh and if you saw him last weekend, he had
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Speaker 1: a couple of nice catches. He is a matchup issue
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Speaker 1: for people. He's not a Gronkowski, but he is a
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Speaker 1: very difficult matchup And so when you look just from
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Speaker 1: you know, their defensive side, you're like, hey, I hope
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Speaker 1: Ramsey's playing this week, so he could take Michael Thomas
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Speaker 1: so that you can move some guys around. Then the
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Speaker 1: other side of the ball there they just they have
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Speaker 1: playmakers everywhere, and their secondary is sensational. Von Bell is
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Speaker 1: one of the hardest hitting safeties in football and he
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Speaker 1: gets overlooked because Marshawn Lattimore is so So you look
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Speaker 1: at the guys he's played against in recent weeks, They've
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Speaker 1: done nothing. Mike Evans did nothing, three targets, sero catches last.
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Speaker 1: But DJ Chark is going to see Marshawn Lattimore all day.
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Speaker 1: Do I think that DJ Chark will nothing? I do not.
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Speaker 1: I think d J. Shark is a guy because of
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Speaker 1: his length and because of his speed. He's got to
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Speaker 1: speed that Mike Evans doesn't have. I think he's going
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Speaker 1: to cause problems for the Saints. But this New Orleans team,
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Speaker 1: no matter who the quarterback is, is capable of winning
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Speaker 1: in Seattle of beating then undefeated Dallas team, and then
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Speaker 1: last week they dismantled. Now they didn't dismand like that,
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Speaker 1: that's but they took away what Bruce Arians wanted to
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Speaker 1: do for the Buccaneers. And remember the week before the
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers dismantled the Rams in St. Louis points on that
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Speaker 1: Saints Rams defense. Remember me, look, I said, oh my gosh. Right,
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Speaker 1: And so the Saints handled that with ease last week,
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Speaker 1: it appears was the final that game. So when you
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Speaker 1: look at the Saints, you have talent on both sides
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Speaker 1: of the ball, and then you have Sean Payton, who
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Speaker 1: does not get enough credit for being that sensational offensive. Mind,
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Speaker 1: everyone's talking about Andy Reid these days for for good reason.
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Speaker 1: This guy as good as anyone in the league at
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Speaker 1: what he does, which is putting his players in a
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Speaker 1: position to not just succeed, but to destroy a defense.
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Speaker 1: He's really good, very good. And before we get two
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Speaker 1: big things, it's crazy that Gardner Minshew is not in
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Speaker 1: our big things, but shows how Jalen Ramsey can trump conversation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is probably a good time to mention
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Speaker 1: that the Gardner Minshew phenomenon just continues to grow. You
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Speaker 1: and I both were driving out at the beach last
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Speaker 1: night at separate moments and saw the line around the
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Speaker 1: store where he was signing autographs. I mean it wasn't
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Speaker 1: just like into the parking, was like around the building
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Speaker 1: multiple times. Uh, And people waited, And that's just it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: There have been very popular players here before. When Calais
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Speaker 1: Campbell got off to such a great start in people
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Speaker 1: were lined up to meet him wherever he was not
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Speaker 1: like this, right, Uh, Fred Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Tony basally
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Speaker 1: Mark we now have all had moments where they were
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Speaker 1: those popular men in town and could have any table
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Speaker 1: they wanted at any rest run and a line of
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Speaker 1: people if they saw them coming to say hello. I
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Speaker 1: can't recall and maybe someone can remind me if I'm
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Speaker 1: missing it. A player sitting and signing autographs that had
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Speaker 1: a line around the building like that. I went into
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Speaker 1: Orange Theory this morning and and I mean it was
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Speaker 1: immediately and I go to the five am class, you
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Speaker 1: know that we're grabbed by people, Hey, I want to
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Speaker 1: know about Minshew. As I'm leaving the next class, there
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Speaker 1: were people who wanted to talk about Minshew. It's just
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Speaker 1: it's phenomenal to me that the sixth round pick. And
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Speaker 1: I have to say it again, we didn't think that
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Speaker 1: much of him, not as a person but as a
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Speaker 1: as a player. We just weren't sure what he was
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Speaker 1: coming out of August. We talked to Doug before the
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Speaker 1: final preseason game and he's like, look, the kid has
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Speaker 1: to prove he can be our backup. Now the conversation is,
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Speaker 1: what happens when Nick Foles gets healthy? Is Nick the backup? WHOA?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it makes your head spin to
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Speaker 1: think about how fast the narrative has changed in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's their moment. It's like what in her
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Speaker 1: own calls remarkable. And I don't think we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to truly think and grasp it until maybe the
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Speaker 1: off season when you have time to sit down and think,
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Speaker 1: because we're so busy and wrapped up in it right
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Speaker 1: now that you haven't realized how fast it's changed. I
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Speaker 1: mean I did last night. Yeah, we were. I mean
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Speaker 1: I went to the gym, came back an hour and
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later. The line had not moved, Like I
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Speaker 1: saw the same guy with the cat head on that
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Speaker 1: made me moved up twelve spots, and I thought to myself,
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Speaker 1: I can't recall ever waiting in line like that long
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Speaker 1: to meet someone. And I was thinking, like, would I
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Speaker 1: ever wait that long to meet someone? Like? Who would
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Speaker 1: I wait in line for? And I thought, yeah, no
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Speaker 1: one the Pope. That'd be about it. Pope for you, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Pope be not the only person Other than that,
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Speaker 1: I was thinking maybe my thirteen year old self. I
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Speaker 1: was talking talking to Patrick having on David Candice over
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Speaker 1: the week about my wrestling obsession when I was younger,
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Speaker 1: and I loved John Cena when I was a teenager,
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Speaker 1: and I thought, you know what, thirteen year old Ashland
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Speaker 1: Selvan will probably wait three hours to meet John Cina.
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Speaker 1: But that's about it. So for the Pope and John Cena.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, no Gardner Minshew, But I would not
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Speaker 1: wait three and a half hours. That is crazy to me.
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Speaker 1: I would neither. But that just goes to show you
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Speaker 1: how people are hungry for a winning personality and this
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Speaker 1: gets got one. Yeah, And Patrick was telling us earlier
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Speaker 1: this morning that is over twenty thou views on a
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Speaker 1: press conference yesterday, first press conference. Now there were press
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Speaker 1: conferences in my history that I would sit and wait
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Speaker 1: to watch back before the internet. Mike Ditka when he
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Speaker 1: was the coach of the Bears. Um so I get that.
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Speaker 1: I want to hear what he has to say. And
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Speaker 1: Minshew is now must watch on Wednesdays. And there are
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Speaker 1: people that come into our space to watch the press
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Speaker 1: conferences that we stream live who don't miss it. Do
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Speaker 1: not miss it. It's been entertaining, especially for the I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure who he reports for, but he calls him
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Speaker 1: a different name every single week. If you yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a reference to a movie. And of course I
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Speaker 1: didn't get it, not being hip like that, but he
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Speaker 1: calls him Larry and Barry and Terry and Jerry and Gary.
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Speaker 1: Last week says I like Larry better. He goes you
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Speaker 1: should change your name. I mean, he didn't even think twice.
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Speaker 1: He just the kid. It's just you can see why
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Speaker 1: people are drawn to him, why they enjoy him so much.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into big things. Big thing one is,
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Speaker 1: of course, Jalen Ramsey. You're obviously a better team with
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Speaker 1: him on the field, especially this week with Michael Thomas.
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Speaker 1: The entire locker room commented yesterday on Jalen being back
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Speaker 1: on the field, Avery Jones said they're a better team
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Speaker 1: with him involved. I don't know. I felt like he'll
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Speaker 1: tell us. I mean, I forgot where if he decides.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to get cup of athletes like
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Speaker 1: jailing every once in a while, so I feel like
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Speaker 1: if he decides to play, he's gonna be ready. Big
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Speaker 1: thing too is Alvin Camara. We saw a guy was
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Speaker 1: similar talent that last week with Christian McCaffrey, and after
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Speaker 1: talking to guys in the locker room this week, he
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Speaker 1: might be even better than Christian McCaffrey. He's a tougher
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Speaker 1: running so he's more like down here physical uh. Cavil
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Speaker 1: is more like shifty speedback. So both on have good
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Speaker 1: routes while receiving type calumny. So that's the big stern
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Speaker 1: and big thing. Three is the a f C. South.
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Speaker 1: You're still in it right now, the Jaguar as being not.
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Speaker 1: The Texans are getting better. However, the Colts just beat
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs in a huge game. And the meaning of
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Speaker 1: this is if you don't start winning now, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be out of it before you're even in it. Brian, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's start there. Um. The Texans play in Kansas City
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Speaker 1: this week, and Patrick Mahomes is not They thought might
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Speaker 1: get Tyreek killback and that that can be a game
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Speaker 1: breaker for them regardless if they go and beat the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs in Kansas City the week after the Colts did.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a clear step forward. The Texans offensive
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Speaker 1: line appears to have solidified somewhat. Shaun Watson wasn't beaten
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Speaker 1: up last week against the Falcons like he had been
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Speaker 1: in previous weeks. They're running game with Carlos Hide is
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Speaker 1: really starting to get into that pounded rhythm. We saw
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Speaker 1: what the Colts did, and they did it with defense.
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Speaker 1: So you've got two teams that are making their step up.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody in Jacksonville believes that this defense has
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Speaker 1: the ability to play to their level. Certainly they do,
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Speaker 1: but the last two weeks they have not. So you
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Speaker 1: gotta get your defense started. The offense all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden shows the ability to score a bunch of points,
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Speaker 1: which again we haven't seen in a long time around here.
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Speaker 1: But with those two teams, I think the Titans are
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Speaker 1: kind of like this team that you know, win one,
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Speaker 1: lose one, win to you know, lose two, you you
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Speaker 1: can't afford to get into that kind of a rhythm.
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Speaker 1: They have got to find a way to solidify with
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Speaker 1: a home game, and they gotta beat a team like
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Speaker 1: the Saints that most of the national people don't think
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Speaker 1: they can beat, right, They've got to prove that they
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Speaker 1: belong with a talented team like this against a very
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Speaker 1: good coaching staff. And then you go get the Bengals
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Speaker 1: and and they're oh and five at this point, and
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Speaker 1: the Jets, who I don't believe they've won a game either.
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Speaker 1: You've got these two teams where you can go on
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Speaker 1: the road and you can create a little momentum um
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Speaker 1: which takes us two big thing one and that is
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. And if I didn't say this yesterday, let
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Speaker 1: me go on record now. If you want to be
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Speaker 1: six and three at the bye week, which with the
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, people think, well that's absurd, you can be.
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Speaker 1: But Jalen Ramsey has to play, and he has to
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Speaker 1: play inspired football. You need the Jalen Ramsey who was
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Speaker 1: on the field against the Houston Texans, who held DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Hopkins to three catches and thirteen yards in man coverage.
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Speaker 1: You need the guy who wants to be the highest
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Speaker 1: paid defensive player in the game, not the highest paid corner,
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Speaker 1: the highest paid defensive player in the game. He has
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Speaker 1: got to come to play this week against Michael Thomas
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Speaker 1: and you need him. Maybe next week against A. J. Green,
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Speaker 1: and then maybe the week in London against DeAndre Hopkins. Again,
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Speaker 1: you can win all four of these games, but it's
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Speaker 1: clear at this last two weeks this is not the
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Speaker 1: same defense without Jalen. It's not. And you might go, well,
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Speaker 1: do I mean he's the best player? However, you have
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Speaker 1: a loaded front and by the way, players in the
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Speaker 1: locker room don't want to hear that. They don't want
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Speaker 1: to hear he's the best player. Although I think they
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Speaker 1: know it, they don't want to hear they're not the
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Speaker 1: same without him. They take offense to that they don't
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Speaker 1: think they're that much worse, or they're certainly not going
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Speaker 1: to admit that they're not the same without him. But
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Speaker 1: they had him against Houston and they absolutely shut down
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Speaker 1: an offense that's one of the best in football right now.
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Speaker 1: They had him two hundred and sixty yards. Deshaun Watson
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Speaker 1: didn't throw a touchdown pass in that ball game. They
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Speaker 1: held him to thirteen points one touchdown. The next week
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Speaker 1: took a part the Titans, who had the week before
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Speaker 1: played inspired football well two weeks before opening day in Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: So it's a long way of saying the defense is
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Speaker 1: not the same without him, and if you want this
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Speaker 1: offense to be its best, you need the defense to
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Speaker 1: be its best. It needs JA and I agree. When
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Speaker 1: we were in the locker room yesterday when you asked
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Speaker 1: about Jalen Ramsey, everyone was very quick to respond saying, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's great he's back. However, we have to do a
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Speaker 1: game plan with or without him, very scripted, and I
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Speaker 1: had two players tell me that that, well, you know, look,
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Speaker 1: we got a game plan we're gonna go execute. If
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Speaker 1: he's here, great, If he's not, no problem, which tells
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Speaker 1: me that that's sort of the I don't say scripted,
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Speaker 1: but that's the that's what they're saying. Hey, look, guys,
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Speaker 1: you cannot sit here and wonder about what's going on
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Speaker 1: with two point. You need to be focused and ready
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Speaker 1: to play. And that's the professional way of of applying.
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Speaker 1: That's what you expect answer to be. You can't worry
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Speaker 1: about it. However, I think everyone knows when he's playing
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Speaker 1: at his best, he is, if not the best corner
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Speaker 1: in the league, one of two or three guys that
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Speaker 1: you point to and say he's going to take away
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Speaker 1: your best receiver. And he can do it every single week.
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Speaker 1: You you have a shot here to stay in the
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Speaker 1: a f C South race, to keep pace. I don't
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Speaker 1: I don't think the Texans are that much better than
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Speaker 1: this team if Jalen's on it. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: Colts are better than this team with Jalen on it.
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Speaker 1: I think you can win the division if you've got him.
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Speaker 1: Now here's the question, And Jalen didn't talk yesterday. I
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Speaker 1: don't imagine we're gonna hear much from him, even if
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Speaker 1: the microphones are in his face. He is probably not
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Speaker 1: going to be entirely forthcoming because he won't see where
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Speaker 1: it benefits him. But it looked yesterday, and this is
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Speaker 1: just my interpretation, um, it looked like he was maybe
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Speaker 1: pouting a little unhappy that we're not getting what he wanted.
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Speaker 1: We saw him on the practice field after the Titans
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Speaker 1: game here he was almost in a celebratory moved because
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Speaker 1: they want and because you know, he's giving guys hugs
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Speaker 1: and hey, you know, it's great to play here. I
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Speaker 1: think he thought he was on his way out, he
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Speaker 1: was going to get what he wanted. Well, he's not. Right.
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Speaker 1: By the way, life is tough. You don't always get
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Speaker 1: what you want. Do you get what you want from Joe?
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Speaker 1: Do you get what you want every time? All? Right?
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Speaker 1: Joe does right? Right? I can't get that apartment I
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Speaker 1: want exactly right. Hey, look that's that's it, right, twenty
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Speaker 1: eight million dollars in a contract. You want that, you
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Speaker 1: gotta you gotta come to play Jalen, And if he does,
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Speaker 1: this football team has a chance to make some noise,
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Speaker 1: not just in the South, but they can make some
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Speaker 1: noise in the postseason two. But they need him on
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Speaker 1: the field. This kid quarterback is something to behold. He
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Speaker 1: is going to give you a chance. Jalen's never play
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Speaker 1: with a quarterback like this ever, I would think that
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Speaker 1: he would want to be on the field. He's got
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Speaker 1: to put aside his own desire, and that's what teamwork
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Speaker 1: is all about. He's got to put aside his own
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Speaker 1: desire because, as he said, he's going to get paid. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey is not going to go broke. He will
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Speaker 1: be fairly compensated at some point here. I don't know
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Speaker 1: when that happens, but at some point he will be.
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Speaker 1: He just has to decide that he wants to play
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. And if he does, this football team is
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Speaker 1: better and the defense gives them a chance to help
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Speaker 1: that gid quarterback and that good quarterback isn't a chance
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Speaker 1: to win. And if anything, if I'm Jalen Ramsey this week,
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Speaker 1: I want to play on Sunday because if you're listening
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Speaker 1: to anything around the country about this game, everyone's talking
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Speaker 1: about Marshawn Lattimore being the best corner in football right now.
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Speaker 1: The Saints think that the national perspective is that because
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Speaker 1: the conversation the past two weeks have been he shut
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Speaker 1: down the best corner or the best wide receivers, Jalen
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Speaker 1: has become indifferent almost because he hasn't been playing well.
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Speaker 1: You can't claim to be the best cornerback in football
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Speaker 1: if you're not on the field. You just can't. And
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Speaker 1: Lattimore is out there doing it week in and week out.
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Speaker 1: Ramsey said something in his press conference after Houston. He said,
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Speaker 1: how come no one's talking about the job that I
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Speaker 1: did on Sunday. How can we forget I have been right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's I thought, and I said it then
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Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. I thought it was the
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Speaker 1: single best defensive performance by an individual player, right in
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Speaker 1: franchise history. I got and I've seen them all. So
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Speaker 1: I can go back to Tony Brackens in some big games,
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Speaker 1: and Mike Pete when he was a middle backer here
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Speaker 1: and some big games, especially when he used to play
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Speaker 1: against the Colts. I remember them all. That one stands
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Speaker 1: above all of those. He's that good of a player.
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Speaker 1: He makes you better. He's got to be a better teammate.
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Speaker 1: That's the key. He's got to want to help his
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Speaker 1: teammates with his performance on the field and understand that
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Speaker 1: it isn't at all times about me. Yes, right. That
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Speaker 1: was striking after the big Titans one Thursday night football
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Speaker 1: here when the nine and a half sacks and we
15:57
Speaker 1: were asking about man the defensive line played great. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I too, and you did, right. It's it's about us,
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Speaker 1: it's about group, it's about team, it's whatever you wanna
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Speaker 1: call it. If he plays his brand of football and
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Speaker 1: is a part of this team, they will make noise
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Speaker 1: in the a f C. South. It will be a
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Speaker 1: very fun And I'm not saying that they're mutually exclusive
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Speaker 1: that if he doesn't play, they don't have a chance,
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Speaker 1: because a J boy is a very good football player, right,
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Speaker 1: But when a J boy has Trey Herndon on the
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Speaker 1: other side, who clearly is not ready to be prime
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Speaker 1: time yet, maybe he is in the slot but outside
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Speaker 1: against the Michael Thomas, no way, Um gotta worry about
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Speaker 1: him as well. Yeah, exactly, it's a different dynamic. Uh,
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Speaker 1: maybe the kid can carey him. There are teams with
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Speaker 1: great offense and average defense. Kansas City is one of them.
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Speaker 1: They score so many points that it isn't an issue. However,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you can say that with a
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback at this point if you want to have
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Speaker 1: the chance to get the most out of a year
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Speaker 1: that we all thought was lost on play thirteen here
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Speaker 1: on opening day, Um, they need him to play, all right,
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Speaker 1: And let's take a break and come back and go
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Speaker 1: around the locker room from yestra a lot to talk
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Speaker 1: around the locker room from yesterday. The Jaguars defense has
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Speaker 1: yet to get a turnover, and we go back to
19:33
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen when they were plus ten in turnover margin.
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Speaker 1: Right now they're minus four. I talked to Ronnie Hereson.
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19:46
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Speaker 1: the ball, and they'll come. You hope they come. He
19:56
Speaker 1: does have the one takeaway. He had it in Denver, right,
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Speaker 1: quarter for Denver. So, yeah, they've got to get a
20:24
Speaker 1: couple of those, especially against teddy Bridge Water and a
20:27
Speaker 1: Saints offense that really looked unstoppable at times. Last week,
20:31
Speaker 1: he had four touchdowns for more than three hundred yards.
20:35
Speaker 1: Uh camera that was held in check. He only had
20:38
Speaker 1: about seventy rushing yards, but he had about sixty receiving
20:42
Speaker 1: yards too, so he was a hundred and thirty yards
20:44
Speaker 1: total as part of their package. He's a good player.
20:49
Speaker 1: He reminds me a lot of a guy who played
20:52
Speaker 1: at Miami and then for the Colts, um Edger and James,
20:55
Speaker 1: who was so shifty that just when you thought you
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21:07
Speaker 1: I mean, he was as efficient runner as I've ever seen,
21:10
Speaker 1: and Camaro reminds me of him, although he can put
21:13
Speaker 1: the shoulder down and drive you backwards also, so he
21:16
Speaker 1: is a tremendous back. And I think this defense sells
21:20
Speaker 1: out this week to stop him. Yeah. I mean we've
21:23
Speaker 1: been hearing the term gap defense I don't even know
21:25
Speaker 1: how many times this week, and everyone has been saying
21:27
Speaker 1: it's a pretty easy fits. Well, you hope so, because
21:32
Speaker 1: that guy's coming coming fast well and just I mean,
21:35
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21:37
Speaker 1: here right here and I'm head up my microphone, is
21:41
Speaker 1: the guy in front of me, I can have this
21:43
Speaker 1: gap in this gap. Well, that frees the linebackers to
21:45
Speaker 1: move between different gaps. But if I've got this gap
21:49
Speaker 1: and the linebacker has this gap and I'm committing over here,
21:52
Speaker 1: he'd better be over here, right because if I'm going
21:55
Speaker 1: this way and he doesn't go this way, then McCaffrey
21:57
Speaker 1: is going that way. As we all saw yes multiple times,
22:00
Speaker 1: multiple So we talked about the explosive Saints offense and
22:03
Speaker 1: talk to Josh Allen yesterday. He said that the Jags
22:05
Speaker 1: defense is in for a big week. You gotta bring
22:11
Speaker 1: a game, and one of the best teams in the
22:13
Speaker 1: NFL right now one lost team, you know, so we
22:16
Speaker 1: gotta we definitely gotta bring our a game every play
22:19
Speaker 1: and uh, jump on them early and stay on them.
22:22
Speaker 1: That's been the biggest thing this past week is the
22:24
Speaker 1: message that you've got to start earlier. And Myles Jack
22:27
Speaker 1: said at Sunday postgame, lonk room is they're starting too slow,
22:30
Speaker 1: They're getting behind. They gotta play catch up. The entire game.
22:32
Speaker 1: You gotta start fast like you did against the Titans, well,
22:35
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Gardner talked about that yesterday
22:37
Speaker 1: in his news conference. It's something that they've they've been
22:39
Speaker 1: talking about, that they've been practicing. But it means that
22:43
Speaker 1: you've got to play nearly flawless football right out of
22:45
Speaker 1: the gate, or you have to have a great script.
22:47
Speaker 1: You know, Sean Payton's coming in here with a great script.
22:50
Speaker 1: That's what they do. So it's on John D. Philippo
22:53
Speaker 1: and his offensive staff to have the plan in place
22:56
Speaker 1: to attack this defense so that the players then go
22:58
Speaker 1: out and executed. Everyone talks about starting fast, no one,
23:02
Speaker 1: no one, No one wants to come from It's all
23:06
Speaker 1: about execution. It isn't about starting fast. Do what they're
23:10
Speaker 1: coaching you to do, follow the game plan, and then
23:13
Speaker 1: figure a way to go get it done. He said,
23:14
Speaker 1: a game it's got to be a plus against these guys.
23:17
Speaker 1: Ted Ginn has explosive speed on one side. Michael Thomas
23:20
Speaker 1: can really run. Plus if he's seen how big he is,
23:23
Speaker 1: you know he he is a long, tall, strong receiver.
23:28
Speaker 1: He is a different version of Julio Jones. He's very
23:32
Speaker 1: difficult to guard. I'll see. All right, that press conference
23:35
Speaker 1: that we talked about, how over twenty views. This is
23:38
Speaker 1: why from governerment too, you're all disappointed that you're not
23:41
Speaker 1: kind of going head to head with Drew Brees. Oh no,
23:44
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's not playing right. Yeah. Nah, but I
23:51
Speaker 1: may hope to meet him. That'd be cool. But um, yeah,
23:53
Speaker 1: And he's a great player. And and Teddy Teddy bers
23:55
Speaker 1: D has been playing great as well, So not much
23:58
Speaker 1: slack there. So you gonna come out and be ready.
24:02
Speaker 1: I don't know many guys that are as honest as that. No. Well,
24:05
Speaker 1: and look, he had a front row seat. I mean
24:07
Speaker 1: he grew up in Brandon, Mississippi. They got the Saints games.
24:10
Speaker 1: They're about three hours from New Orleans, so he had
24:13
Speaker 1: a chance to see He didn't say this. I don't
24:15
Speaker 1: know whether they're gonna ask him or not. But if
24:17
Speaker 1: if i'm Gardner Minshew six ft tall, Drew Brees is
24:20
Speaker 1: my he's my mentor, he's my idol. He's the guy
24:23
Speaker 1: that I want to model my game after a because
24:26
Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Fame passer with a career passing
24:28
Speaker 1: yards total. Yeah, I'd like that, but more than that
24:31
Speaker 1: is that you don't have to be this prototypical guy
24:34
Speaker 1: that stands at six ft four and two it in
24:35
Speaker 1: thirty pounds and can stand poised in the pocket. He
24:38
Speaker 1: can do all of those things except be six ft four, right, um,
24:42
Speaker 1: And I hope he doesn't ever get to two or
24:43
Speaker 1: three pounds, but hope he can. He can play that
24:46
Speaker 1: style of football. And here's the interesting part. When Drew
24:49
Speaker 1: Brees went down, a lot of people said, well, there's
24:52
Speaker 1: a game you win. Well, I mean, I've admit it's
24:55
Speaker 1: easier to beat these guys. They've never beaten Drew Brees.
24:59
Speaker 1: We said same thing about Cam Newton. It's easier to
25:03
Speaker 1: win when you don't have the starting quarterback, but it's
25:06
Speaker 1: no guarantee. Yeah, this league is up and the powerhouse
25:09
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks lately absolutely league wide and not just this team,
25:14
Speaker 1: but this is one without Drew Brees. It's at home,
25:18
Speaker 1: it'll be hot. You expect this team to go out
25:21
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25:24
Speaker 1: Two and three Colts and Texans go get them. We
25:28
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25:30
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25:32
Speaker 1: a winning season. Yes, yes, And this is the kind
25:34
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25:37
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25:39
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25:42
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25:46
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25:50
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25:53
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Speaker 1: the to and we're going at it us too. Hey,
28:03
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28:06
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28:18
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28:21
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28:25
Speaker 1: I think he got low balled in terms of you know,
28:28
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28:31
Speaker 1: what he wanted to be paid. And and because now
28:34
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28:36
Speaker 1: the league. And also when you looked at the situations,
28:39
Speaker 1: it wasn't an awful situation that he was going to
28:43
Speaker 1: come back to. If he, for instance, had he gone
28:45
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28:48
Speaker 1: would have been into a rebuilding situation. The guys who's
28:52
Speaker 1: getting back on the field doesn't have a lot of
28:53
Speaker 1: weapons around him if he's in Miami, and that kind
28:56
Speaker 1: of thing where he is coming back here. You gotta
28:58
Speaker 1: sit down again, you know, you get to say down,
29:01
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29:03
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29:05
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29:07
Speaker 1: go out there with some weapons that are much much
29:11
Speaker 1: more advanced than you would have had in Miami. And oh,
29:13
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, who's to say that Drew
29:16
Speaker 1: Brees is going to play forever? Now? It's if like
29:18
Speaker 1: he's gonna place forever. But you know, this would be
29:21
Speaker 1: a great situation for Jenny bridge Water if it worked
29:23
Speaker 1: out to where he was the heir apparent to Breeze.
29:26
Speaker 1: So I think everything from that standpoint kind of worked
29:29
Speaker 1: in his favorite. They probably weren't as many quarterback openings
29:33
Speaker 1: around the league as the first appeared to be. If
29:36
Speaker 1: if Nick Foles ends up in Jacksonsville, which he does,
29:39
Speaker 1: that closes one off. And so one of the one,
29:42
Speaker 1: one of the only ones that was available, I think,
29:44
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29:46
Speaker 1: just from the outside looking in, that looked like a
29:48
Speaker 1: terrible situation. So I think everything worked out well for Katy.
29:51
Speaker 1: You know, we we know a former Drew Breese backup.
29:53
Speaker 1: A guy named Mark Brunelle whose name is on the
29:55
Speaker 1: wall here in Jacksonville. And he talks so much and
29:58
Speaker 1: so l quently about what it's like to be in
30:02
Speaker 1: the meeting room with Drew Brees and what it's like
30:05
Speaker 1: to be an offensive player with Sean Payton. Can you
30:08
Speaker 1: shed a little life, a little light on on why
30:13
Speaker 1: an offensive player would feel so secure with Sean Payton,
30:17
Speaker 1: would feel so good about being there because they have
30:22
Speaker 1: I just mastered how to figure out how to use
30:25
Speaker 1: the guy's talents. Whatever a guy's strengths are, they know
30:28
Speaker 1: how to incorporate that into what you're doing, whether that
30:32
Speaker 1: be Drew Brees. Now we see it with Teddy Bridgewater.
30:35
Speaker 1: We've seen it in small increments with Taysom Hill at quarterback,
30:39
Speaker 1: and we'll see how they're working in the talents of
30:42
Speaker 1: Alman Kamara, Michael Thomas Um and over the years, if
30:45
Speaker 1: it had been you know, Robert Mitchum or Defred Henderson.
30:48
Speaker 1: They know how to find out what a guy does
30:50
Speaker 1: well and then maximize what it is that God does
30:54
Speaker 1: well within the offense. They've been uncanny about that, and
30:58
Speaker 1: you know, it's amazing to think. You know, Drew Brees
31:01
Speaker 1: is the all time leaguing passer in terms of yards
31:03
Speaker 1: in the NFL history. Michael Thomas was his first Pro
31:06
Speaker 1: Bowl receiver. That tells you what they've been able to
31:09
Speaker 1: do with this offense. Until Aldern Kamaer and Michael and
31:13
Speaker 1: Mark Ingram made the Pro Bowl a couple of years ago,
31:15
Speaker 1: they didn't have, you know, Pro Bowl running backs. Um,
31:18
Speaker 1: they've been able to just kick and I don't want
31:20
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31:23
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie UH and he turned out to be
31:25
Speaker 1: one of the best running back of the franchise history.
31:28
Speaker 1: They've been able to take players like that find roles
31:31
Speaker 1: for them. Marcus Colston was the UH seventh round pick
31:34
Speaker 1: at receiver and he's the all time leaguing receiver in
31:36
Speaker 1: franchise history. They made them able to get guys like that,
31:39
Speaker 1: find what their talents are and maximize them in this offense.
31:43
Speaker 1: And that's been really the key to it. Year after
31:46
Speaker 1: year after years, they've been able to find guys, find
31:49
Speaker 1: what they do, and incorporate them. It's been really uncanny,
31:52
Speaker 1: uncanny the way they've been able to do it. John
31:55
Speaker 1: Speaking of this offense, how has Drew Brees helped out
31:58
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater all of this? Well, I mean, what better
32:02
Speaker 1: sounding more can you have? I mean, this offense has
32:04
Speaker 1: been Drew Breeses since two thousand and six. He knows
32:07
Speaker 1: it inside and out. So if Tenny brid Bridgewater needs
32:12
Speaker 1: a guy to pounce some ideas off of, he's got
32:15
Speaker 1: Drew Breese. Drew Brees gave him the confident that what
32:19
Speaker 1: he's given him, the advice that Drew has always gone by,
32:23
Speaker 1: And Drew Breeses always said, you know what, there's nothing
32:26
Speaker 1: wrong with taking a profit. Um, it doesn't matter if
32:29
Speaker 1: it's a dump off pass this third nineteam, you know
32:31
Speaker 1: how many third nine team players are you gonna have?
32:33
Speaker 1: Take the eight yards plant live to fight again. But
32:38
Speaker 1: completions are a good thing. And that's one of the
32:40
Speaker 1: things that he's told Teddy. You know, hey, completions are
32:42
Speaker 1: a good thing. There's nothing wrong with checking down if
32:45
Speaker 1: there's nothing downfield. And I think Teddy has taken that
32:48
Speaker 1: the heart. You know, when you're when you're watching Drew.
32:50
Speaker 1: In terms of his preparation, he's Keith a niacal when
32:54
Speaker 1: it comes to his preparation. He is a guy who
32:58
Speaker 1: there is no stone left unturned when Drew Brees is
33:02
Speaker 1: talking about working. So you know he's taught that to
33:06
Speaker 1: to Taysom Hill and to Teddy Bridgewater and those guys
33:09
Speaker 1: have learned how to just kind of study film the
33:11
Speaker 1: way through season. You know, Drew again, he's been in
33:14
Speaker 1: this offense for so long. He knows where everyone is
33:17
Speaker 1: supposed to be and he can impart that with them
33:19
Speaker 1: onto whether it be Teddy bridge Water or Taysom Hill
33:23
Speaker 1: or the receivers. He can tell those receivers, look, this
33:25
Speaker 1: is the death I want you to run it, and
33:27
Speaker 1: this is why we want you to run it right here.
33:29
Speaker 1: This is you know, how shallow we want you to go,
33:32
Speaker 1: And this is why we want you to go this shallow.
33:34
Speaker 1: He's able to tell that to each and every part
33:36
Speaker 1: of this offense. Trying to feel like getting on a
33:39
Speaker 1: soapbox this morning, of course, all right, and I don't
33:42
Speaker 1: I don't know that this is a hard, hard case
33:44
Speaker 1: for you to make, but make the case for our
33:46
Speaker 1: listeners as to why Marshawn Lattimore is the best cornerback
33:50
Speaker 1: in football. Because on they given Sunday and most Sunday
33:55
Speaker 1: are given Sundays for him. He can shut a guy
33:57
Speaker 1: an um, he can. He can play his own in man.
33:59
Speaker 1: He he excels in vote. But when he's got to
34:03
Speaker 1: play man and he's locked up on a guy, We've
34:05
Speaker 1: seen him back to back weeks with a Marii Cooper
34:08
Speaker 1: and Mike Evans, he has rocked that guy up and
34:12
Speaker 1: thrown away that he has taken their lunch money. He
34:14
Speaker 1: has taking their lunch box. He is eating their lunch
34:16
Speaker 1: in front of them, and they've been been helpless to stop.
34:19
Speaker 1: He is that kind of guy. Now he will have
34:21
Speaker 1: some inconsistency. He has to make consistency. Really last year,
34:24
Speaker 1: the second year, and I think he admits he came
34:28
Speaker 1: into the season probably a little bit mentally unprepared because
34:32
Speaker 1: of that great rookie season, and I think he's read
34:34
Speaker 1: the clipping. Then you know, he got a little you know,
34:36
Speaker 1: he got a little testy on himself. UM So he
34:39
Speaker 1: felt like, hey, if they're not going after me every play,
34:42
Speaker 1: I don't have to treat every play like a lockdown play.
34:45
Speaker 1: And of course Mike Evans came and took his lunch
34:48
Speaker 1: money last year, so he saw the results of that
34:50
Speaker 1: didn't like it a whole lot. And now he's locked in.
34:53
Speaker 1: He's playing the last I would say, the last three
34:56
Speaker 1: four weeks as well as he has played in the NFL.
35:00
Speaker 1: And he was the NFL Rookie defensive Rookie Defensive Player
35:03
Speaker 1: of the Year a couple of years ago. But he's
35:05
Speaker 1: a much better player than that right now. I even
35:07
Speaker 1: though the numbers don't say it in terms of interceptions
35:11
Speaker 1: and takeaways, what he's done is he's given the Saints
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Speaker 1: the guy that you can say, okay, go sick of them,
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Speaker 1: stop him and he's able to do that. And when
35:20
Speaker 1: you have that kind of guy on the defense, that's
35:22
Speaker 1: a special, special guy. I don't know. He convinced me well,
35:26
Speaker 1: I mean, look it's there. There are a few guys
35:28
Speaker 1: in the league, um and Marshawn is right at the
35:31
Speaker 1: top of the list. We think Jalen Ramsey here when
35:33
Speaker 1: he's playing, is the same way, uh, that you can
35:36
Speaker 1: make that case for and they are worth They're worth
35:39
Speaker 1: their weight in gold. Yeah, And I mean those guys
35:42
Speaker 1: are special. I mean when you can when you can
35:44
Speaker 1: take away a key person on the opposition, that's that's
35:48
Speaker 1: so valuable because now you can be as exotic on
35:51
Speaker 1: defensive as you want to, or you can just say,
35:53
Speaker 1: you know, we can be as basic as we want to.
35:55
Speaker 1: We've got a good front four. We can just let
35:56
Speaker 1: them go do it, and we can sit back in
35:59
Speaker 1: the secondary and just overrate everybody. And we know this
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Speaker 1: guy has that one guy and taking him away. As
36:04
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jalen Ramsey Man that that dude is deep
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Speaker 1: dude around the league. He is something special and and
36:12
Speaker 1: you hate to see the situation that that's going on
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Speaker 1: there because you'd love to see him on the field
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Speaker 1: playing and displaying those wondrous talents that he has. And
36:21
Speaker 1: you know, really, I hope everything works out for him
36:24
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville or wherever. You just want to see guys
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Speaker 1: like that on the field because they're so special and
36:30
Speaker 1: I think Marshawn can beat in that category. We shall see.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Thanks John, you gotta welcome. Thank you for
36:38
Speaker 1: your time, John. We appreciate it, no problem, all right,
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Speaker 1: John d Filippo Offensive, Todd Wash defensive corners speak today.
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Speaker 1: What do you think they're gonna talk about? I think
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Speaker 1: I can predict John's gonna have to talk about the
38:44
Speaker 1: fast start of the offense. And I have a feeling
38:46
Speaker 1: Todd Wash will be asked about the run defense and
38:48
Speaker 1: how it hasn't been great. Now to Flips credit, they
38:51
Speaker 1: did get off to a fast start last week. They
38:53
Speaker 1: scored on their opening possession, but then they had a
38:55
Speaker 1: couple of you know, bangs and bumps that kind of
38:58
Speaker 1: kept them from hitting that rhythm and they came from behind. Right.
39:04
Speaker 1: I like where this office is going, And I think
39:05
Speaker 1: Flips the kind of guy's a perfect temperament to deal
39:10
Speaker 1: with a young quarterback. I'm curious to see. Also, um
39:13
Speaker 1: flips thoughts because he liked James O'Shaughnessy. You know how
39:16
Speaker 1: much he loved the tight end in the system. How
39:18
Speaker 1: are you going to overcome that injury? Uh? Is Josh
39:22
Speaker 1: Oliver gonna play? I mean, and that's a lot to
39:24
Speaker 1: expect that Oliver, who has been out since the first
39:28
Speaker 1: of August after missing two and a half months, is
39:31
Speaker 1: going to come and make an impact. But there's almost
39:34
Speaker 1: no production from the tight end right now. They had
39:36
Speaker 1: twelve catches for I think two yards and two touchdowns,
39:41
Speaker 1: and the majority of that was James O'Shaughnessy. I think
39:44
Speaker 1: Jeff schwayme has I don't know, eight nine catches for
39:47
Speaker 1: sixty yards. I mean, there's just not a whole lot there.
39:51
Speaker 1: And Ben Koyak doesn't make you appreciably better at the position.
39:55
Speaker 1: Uh So, Yeah, I mean when John you're gonna play
39:58
Speaker 1: more receiver sets, I would think, which impacts your running game.
40:02
Speaker 1: They need to get some production from Oliver if they're
40:06
Speaker 1: going to have production from the tight end position. Yeah,
40:09
Speaker 1: and you can't really expect when to come out in
40:11
Speaker 1: the light, can't you hope he does? But then We
40:13
Speaker 1: didn't expect that Gardner Minshew was going to do anything
40:16
Speaker 1: close to what he did, so proved us wrong. If Oliver,
40:18
Speaker 1: if Oliver has just slight production, it will be an improvement,
40:22
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