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Speaker 1: our radio Monday afternoon. After a methodical win over the
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans in Week seventeen. After Week eleven, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: had a three and seven record, while the Titans were
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Speaker 1: seven and three. Since then, the Jags have gone five
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Speaker 1: and one. The Titans have now dropped six in a row,
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Speaker 1: Tony Basselli, Pete Frisco and I discussed Monday afternoon. We're
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Speaker 1: on Tinton next l A M, Jaguars dot com, Jack
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Speaker 1: social media, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Tony Vasselli and Pete
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Speaker 1: Frisco joining us now after another Jaguars win back to five, Pete,
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Speaker 1: just like you knew all along? Well, I know somebody
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Speaker 1: on this show who knew it, and it wasn't me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I could admit it. I didn't. I didn't
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Speaker 1: see it coming, and Vasselli did. I gotta give him
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Speaker 1: credit for that. You weren't a believe or Pete, you
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Speaker 1: weren't a believe or No, I wasn't. I don't think
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Speaker 1: you deep down you were either. You're just trying to
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Speaker 1: make content for the show. No, actually I saw I
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Speaker 1: really I was a believer in more than anything. Was Trevor. Well,
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Speaker 1: yeah I was too. That's my point. He was playing
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Speaker 1: at a level with the record, with the schedule they had,
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Speaker 1: especially after they beat the Ravens. I thought that Cowboys
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Speaker 1: game would be tough, um, but when he came out
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Speaker 1: the way he was playing, you know, you had to
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Speaker 1: win a shootout. You won the football game. What I
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Speaker 1: love about what they've done, Pete is they've won games
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Speaker 1: the way they needed to. You know, you had a gritty,
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Speaker 1: tough win against Baltimore, you laid an egg against Detroit,
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Speaker 1: but then here comes Dallas and you know you have
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Speaker 1: to win to shootout? Were they going to win a shootout?
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Speaker 1: Then you go up to New York and you know
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be ugly and you just gotta play smart,
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Speaker 1: don't turn it over. Be smart. You know you gotta
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Speaker 1: struggling Jets offense, get a lead and just hold on
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Speaker 1: to it. And then in the Texans, they didn't play good.
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Speaker 1: By the way, if you look at the tape, I
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Speaker 1: don't think they played a great game, which I love
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Speaker 1: because they played then you know when you don't, when
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Speaker 1: you don't have your best and you can still win
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Speaker 1: that right now, it speaks to how bad the Texans are,
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Speaker 1: no doubt about it, but also speaks to the status
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Speaker 1: of this team and where they are kind of their
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Speaker 1: growth and the evolution of the of growth. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's big. And you know, watching the tape, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't great, but they were smart. They did what they
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Speaker 1: needed to do, and they guy to win against a
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Speaker 1: bad team setting up this week where now you can
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Speaker 1: play your best. And I actually think if Jacksonville plays
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Speaker 1: their best and Tennessee plays their best, jackson wins by
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns. I agree, I agree, and their favorite by
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Speaker 1: six and a half. So if you go, if you
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Speaker 1: says seven weeks ago that they'd be favored in Week
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Speaker 1: eight team playing in prime time by seven points or
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Speaker 1: a touchdown playing against a third team quarterback has only
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Speaker 1: been with the team for two weeks, that you have
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Speaker 1: your jas to go to the playoffs, I would have
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Speaker 1: told you you were nuts and you didn't even believe
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Speaker 1: that would be the case. Don't say you did. You
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Speaker 1: thought they'd make a run, but you didn't think this
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Speaker 1: would happen. This is you know, I didn't think Tennessee
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Speaker 1: would fall apart like this. Yeah, that's what six straight
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Speaker 1: and you know they're falling apart now. It doesn't it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if the Jacks don't take care of their
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Speaker 1: business though, too. They had to go win and they
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Speaker 1: have one, and now they set themselves up in a
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Speaker 1: great situation and so it's perfect and it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a great atmosphere. The one thing I'm disappointed, but I'm
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Speaker 1: disappointed the league a little bit, Pete. The fact that
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Speaker 1: they put this team on Saturday night instead of Sunday
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Speaker 1: night to give an advantage to the Texans, I mean,
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Speaker 1: not to to the Titans, because now we have five
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Speaker 1: days arrest, they have eight, you know, so we're a
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Speaker 1: short week when they have a long week already. I
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Speaker 1: just thought that they should should have put the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: either at four pm on Sunday or primetime Sunday. But
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Speaker 1: Saturday night, I just is a competitive advantage to the Titans.
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Speaker 1: Big advantage. It's a big advantage. I mean. And and
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Speaker 1: again this is, you know, the Jackson will have to
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Speaker 1: prove to people that they're not the Jaguars anymore, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's exactly what this is. They've been disrespected
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Speaker 1: for since they came in the league. And at some
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Speaker 1: point you got to prove to people that you don't
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Speaker 1: deserve to have that disrespect. And and that's why I
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Speaker 1: think they put him in this spot. They should have
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Speaker 1: been on primetime on Sunday night. But you know what
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Speaker 1: they're gonna put there. They're gonna put Aaron Rodgers in there,
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Speaker 1: even though even though at least that's that's what I
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Speaker 1: think they'll do, but you know he's a our key guy.
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville doesn't have the market players, and Tennessee's falling apart
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Speaker 1: starting a third team quarterback. So there's no blitz and
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Speaker 1: glamour to this game. I get it from a network standpoint,
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Speaker 1: but the NFL could have stepped in here and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: wait a second, this isn't fair. But Tony, you can
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Speaker 1: also spend it forward this way. If they play on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: then they have the extra day for the playoff game
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Speaker 1: where they might not. Well, I gotta had that there
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Speaker 1: after they win Saturday Night, Pete, They're gonna play Saturdays, right,
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Speaker 1: But if they had played on Sunday, then that's one
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Speaker 1: less day they would act. So you get you get
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Speaker 1: an extra day that way. So would you rather be
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Speaker 1: have less this way it is now and not have
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Speaker 1: the I think you having an extra day for the
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Speaker 1: postseason is better than not having it because I think
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Speaker 1: they went on Saturday. Anyway. I think they're a much
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Speaker 1: better team. I think that you know, the only thing
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Speaker 1: that could derail them is history. The ghost of Deepon's
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Speaker 1: past show up. That's the only thing that could derail them.
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Speaker 1: Let's move to head coach Doug Peterson and his Thursday
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Speaker 1: press conference, his final availability of game week. He and
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Speaker 1: the team understand the stakes Saturday night. Yeah, we understand.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the nature of this game, right.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's win and you're in you know, both
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Speaker 1: teams are in the same situation. Guys have been been
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Speaker 1: great this week. They've handled it well. You know. The
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Speaker 1: biggest thing for us obviously a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: shorter week. Um, it's just the recovery aspect of it,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and and being as healthy as possible, um,
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Speaker 1: you know for Saturday night. But yeah, guys have done
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Speaker 1: a nice job of you know, the practices that we've
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Speaker 1: had and the mental mental side of it there they're obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, gearing up and getting excited and they'll be
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Speaker 1: ready to go. Did you really stand it for a
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Speaker 1: Tuesday the law And it's no. I think he was
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Speaker 1: just using that. It's like in a you know, an analogy,
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Speaker 1: but no, it's Ah, didn't didn't have you I mean, listen,
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Speaker 1: and we were two and six at one point, we
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Speaker 1: were three and seven at one point, and you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a time and a place where I
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Speaker 1: felt like, you know, as you message message the football team,
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Speaker 1: it's you know, our our goals were still in front
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Speaker 1: of us, even even back then, you know, and look
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Speaker 1: we were everybody in the division was chasing Tennessee. I
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Speaker 1: mean there were three or four games ahead of everybody,
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Speaker 1: you know there for a long time. And I just
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Speaker 1: had to to make sure that our guys understood that
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Speaker 1: everything is still in front of us. We just got
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Speaker 1: to play one game at a time and just just
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Speaker 1: focus on that one week. And you know, if we
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Speaker 1: did that, it would give us an opportunity to to
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Speaker 1: be in week eighteen for you know, for all the
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Speaker 1: for all the marble. You've talked about this being a
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Speaker 1: young team that needed these kinds of experiences. Can you
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Speaker 1: learn as much about your team through the week, how
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Speaker 1: they prepare for this game as you can on Saturday night?
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Speaker 1: Yes you can. Um, you know these are you know,
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Speaker 1: these are games that um, I mean they're playoff games, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's just what exactly what they do is
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Speaker 1: call it what it is a playoff football game, and
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Speaker 1: you win, you keep going, and you know, with a
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Speaker 1: young football team, it's about how we handle the week,
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Speaker 1: you know, because the emotions are going to run high
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Speaker 1: and and you just gotta you just gotta just kind
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Speaker 1: of pace yourself throughout the course of the week and
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Speaker 1: and just turn it loose, you know, Saturday night. But um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think I think the guys have have
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Speaker 1: really and felt that they've done a really good job
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Speaker 1: the last couple of days, you know, handling all that.
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Speaker 1: And this time of year, teams are beat up. Everybody
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Speaker 1: kind of knows who each other is as a football team.
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Speaker 1: How much does I mean, being hot momentum this time
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Speaker 1: of year and confidence really be the difference in a
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Speaker 1: football game. I mean it it's good to talk about,
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Speaker 1: but you still gotta go play, and you gotta play
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Speaker 1: against a good football team. And momentum streaks, wins, losses, whatever,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean, you just look at Tennessee
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Speaker 1: right there there in this game for a reason, and
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Speaker 1: they're they're playing for the same things we're playing for,
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Speaker 1: and and it's a little bit different, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter, you know, you uh, you come up,
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Speaker 1: you come out Saturday night. You gotta be ready to go,
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Speaker 1: and and you gotta play, and you gotta play with energy.
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Speaker 1: You gotta play, um, you know, excitable. You just gotta
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Speaker 1: you gotta do your job and and focus in on
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Speaker 1: on each play. In the locker room, they get it too,
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Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, it feels good. You know, it
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Speaker 1: feels good knowing you know what we had to do
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Speaker 1: to get here. But also job's not finished, you know,
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Speaker 1: we have we have to win this game to get
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Speaker 1: in and then moving forward, we kind of we kind
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Speaker 1: of get what we are in every week, so you know,
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Speaker 1: we're embracing that. I think that's kind of how it's
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Speaker 1: been for us. Like I said before, it's been like
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Speaker 1: that for us for the past month really, So the
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Speaker 1: team's responded well to that. And you know, I'm proud
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Speaker 1: of the situation we've put ourselves in. It's it wasn't
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Speaker 1: easy to get in this spot, especially the way we
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Speaker 1: started the season. Um, and here we are with an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to win the division, and this is the only
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Speaker 1: game that matters right now, and we were just putting
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Speaker 1: everything we have into just scoring one more point than
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Speaker 1: then that's all that matters, is winning the game. Wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Christian Kirk said, the message was consistent all season long,
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Speaker 1: no matter how bad things got for us. You at
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Speaker 1: some point during the season, nobody lost hope or lost
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Speaker 1: sight of, you know, our end goals and that's to
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Speaker 1: make it to the postseason. And you know, we've always
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Speaker 1: talked about it the most important games or where the
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Speaker 1: division football games, and so as long as we do that,
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Speaker 1: we know we can give ourselves a chance. And you
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Speaker 1: know we've been able to, you know, get some division wins,
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Speaker 1: and you know it's some wins in our conference as well.
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Speaker 1: That's kept us alive. And you know, also now he's
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Speaker 1: just taking it, you know, one week at a time
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Speaker 1: and planning to say a live tight endo. Evan Ingram
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Speaker 1: had eleven catches for one d sixty two yards and
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns last time out against Tennessee in Week four team,
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Speaker 1: but that's in the past. The coaches didn't really good
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Speaker 1: job of just putting myself and a lot of other
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Speaker 1: guys in position. When anybody has a big game like that, UM,
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Speaker 1: obviously it's credited to the preparation, you credited to the
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Speaker 1: guys around UM that performance that that did their roles
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Speaker 1: to to help prevail that. So, UM, I think it
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Speaker 1: was just a great team effort. Um, and I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to make players my number is called and UM,
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Speaker 1: I mean these guys are fighting for their life too.
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Speaker 1: So UM, you know that last time we played them,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of you know, it was kind of
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season and kind of creeping
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Speaker 1: towards the end. It's it's different this time. So, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna come with their best and they're
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Speaker 1: and they're still a great team, are really good defense. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to We're gonna have to go out
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Speaker 1: there execute. Right guard Brandon Sheriff understands the balance of
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Speaker 1: big game excitement this week with a normal week process.
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Speaker 1: Just continue to to focus on the details. You know,
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Speaker 1: obviously the games on Saturday, so you gotta you gotta
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Speaker 1: speed up a little bit. But Doug's gonna dug into all.
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Speaker 1: The coaching staff has done a great job, you know
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Speaker 1: throughout the year. You know, we had that three game
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Speaker 1: stretch in twelve days, so they did a great job
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Speaker 1: taking care of our bodies. And uh what we got,
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Speaker 1: we got four or five days, So we're We're like,
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Speaker 1: I can feel that the energy and the excitement from
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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, you know, because this is a
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Speaker 1: huge game for us and we're we're excited. On defense,
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Speaker 1: Safety ray Sean Jenkins knows what's at stake against the Titans.
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Speaker 1: We finished this, We're in the playoffs, so hey man,
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Speaker 1: we're looking excited for the challenge. Man, it's something that
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Speaker 1: ain't been done around here and in a minute. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and we want to just change the culture and keep
11:57
Speaker 1: keep the culture, uh, you know in the direction that
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Speaker 1: is and safety Andrew Wingered coined the mantra it was
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Speaker 1: environment at the Bank needs to be freaking lit. And
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Speaker 1: I know it is. I can already feel it like
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Speaker 1: nighttime at the Bank places lit. I mean ton of noise.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I know they're gonna give it to us,
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Speaker 1: Jones joined me in the locker room to discuss the
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Speaker 1: task at hand this week against the Titans. I think
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Speaker 1: we just continue to do what we've been doing for
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Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. It's gonna be a great
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Speaker 1: challenge for us. It's gonna be a difficult, difficult game.
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Speaker 1: They're a really good football team. You know, it's hard
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Speaker 1: to beat teams twice, so you have to focus on
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Speaker 1: our execution and the things that we need to do.
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Speaker 1: But we should enjoy it again, you know, in light
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Speaker 1: of recent news. Get to play a game that's a blessing,
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Speaker 1: so um, not put too much pressure on it. Let
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Speaker 1: the fans enjoy the atmosphere and you know our families
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Speaker 1: and loved ones who are who are going to be there,
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Speaker 1: and just go out and give everything you have to
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Speaker 1: God and just go play a different game. Now. But
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Speaker 1: how much do you look back at week fourteen or
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Speaker 1: is that in the rear view now the matchup against
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Speaker 1: Tennessee And you know, how do you get ready for
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Speaker 1: a game like this when yeah, maybe that's a few
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, there are a different squad. Now there's a
14:31
Speaker 1: lot of guys with their injury report. Sure, yeah, but
14:33
Speaker 1: it's alten. Also the National Football League, a lot of
14:36
Speaker 1: guys step up. I remember vividly last year when I
14:39
Speaker 1: wasn't a predominant starter, I would expect defensives to have
14:42
Speaker 1: prepared when I went into a game, you know, if
14:44
Speaker 1: someone went down or got hurt. So I give that
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Speaker 1: healthy same respect two teams in the depth that they have. Um,
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Speaker 1: I know Josh Dops, you know personally in the type
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Speaker 1: of man, type of character that he is, and the
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Speaker 1: things that he's done not only his college career, but
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Speaker 1: you know in the NFL as well, and you get
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Speaker 1: to respect the talent they have and the coaching that
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Speaker 1: they have as well. So looking back I think you
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Speaker 1: could you should only look back to learn. You shouldn't
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Speaker 1: look back to dwell. I think it's part of your
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Speaker 1: ego and pride to think, oh, we beat this team once,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna just do it again. That's not how
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Speaker 1: the league works. You gotta earn it every week. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know that. I'm kind I'm aware of it. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to hear your answer. It all right? So
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Speaker 1: crowd support. You mentioned the environment here is gonna be electric,
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Speaker 1: sold out crowd, standing room onely under the lights National TV.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have to be fired up for
15:31
Speaker 1: a big time Jaguar environment like this. Yeah. I think
15:34
Speaker 1: that's one of the great things about playing here and
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Speaker 1: Duvall is the fan base that we do have, you know,
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Speaker 1: and they they brought it in weeks past. I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: maybe it's gonna be a little bit different just because
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Speaker 1: of you know, what's at stake. But I'm excited for
15:46
Speaker 1: our fans to be a part of it. I am
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Speaker 1: aware that it's supposed to be very, very sold out
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Speaker 1: and crazy and loud. So it's just fun. You can
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Speaker 1: feel the energy around the city and people, you know,
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Speaker 1: kids are ecstatic about it talking about it. You know,
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Speaker 1: I got neighbors and stuff who are just absolutely happy.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's a blessing to be a part of
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Speaker 1: a game like this. Dougus talked about playing meaningful, meaningful
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Speaker 1: football and you know, November December, in January and and
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Speaker 1: here we are, So it's it's it's a blessing. Grateful
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Speaker 1: catch the full Crown Royal water Break on Jaguar social
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Speaker 1: media let's go to offensive coordinator Press Taylor and his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on a second meeting with the division rival Titans
16:26
Speaker 1: were certainly are doing our best to put together a
16:28
Speaker 1: plan where we can move the football on the on
16:30
Speaker 1: the ground if need be, and then doing what we
16:32
Speaker 1: can to come up with complimentary passes, movement screens, plays,
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Speaker 1: or whatever that may be, just to put us in
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Speaker 1: the best position, put our players in the best position.
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Speaker 1: You know, we had some certain schemes that we we
16:40
Speaker 1: wanted to try against them the first time that probably
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Speaker 1: didn't shape out the way we hope they would, so
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Speaker 1: you know, you kind of scrapped those, look for new ideas,
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Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board a little bit to
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Speaker 1: come up with the best plan. Defensive coordinator Mike called
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Speaker 1: Well reflected on the last meeting between the teams in
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Speaker 1: Nashville when linebackers shot quarterman, blasted Derrick Henry and turn
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Speaker 1: the tide. In Week fourteen, in the first quarter, we
17:01
Speaker 1: didn't play the way we were supposed to play, and
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Speaker 1: Shat came in and it was an opportunity for him
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Speaker 1: to get on the field, and he got there and
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Speaker 1: he made a huge play for us. Momentum changing play
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Speaker 1: and I think that did spark us and we've had
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Speaker 1: guys like that all year. Step up, you know, Dewey
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Speaker 1: steps up, you know, even thinking about Smoot and Key,
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Speaker 1: just other guys step up in. You know, it's a
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Speaker 1: team where everybody has to pitch in and do their part,
17:22
Speaker 1: and when guys gets chances, uh, you know, we've been
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Speaker 1: lucky they're being able to play well. All the press
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Speaker 1: conferences and locker room availability from the week available now,
17:31
Speaker 1: of course, on Jaguars dot com. Let's move now to
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Speaker 1: Jack's Drivetime. Wednesday morning, the voice of the Tennessee Titans,
17:38
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, joined Brian Saxon and John Osan for a
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Speaker 1: preview of the Titans and where they are mentally after
17:45
Speaker 1: a six game slide. You know what's funny there there
17:47
Speaker 1: are two things that really jump out to me about
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Speaker 1: this club. But so I'm going to watch him practice
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Speaker 1: last Monday and they're getting ready to play a Thursday
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Speaker 1: night game. It was Tuesday actually there getting ready to
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Speaker 1: play a Thursday night game with Dallas, and there there
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of energy, there's a lot of excitement,
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Speaker 1: and you're saying, wow, they've just lost to Houston and
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Speaker 1: this didn't go well, and they've lost five in a row,
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Speaker 1: and how in the world are they gonna sort of
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Speaker 1: get back up to play Thursday night against Dallas knowing
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Speaker 1: that for them the game doesn't really have a lot
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Speaker 1: of meeting and knowing that they're going to be without
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Speaker 1: a lot of their main guys, And what jumps out
18:31
Speaker 1: when you look at the roster is they've played a
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Speaker 1: lot of people this year that were on their practice
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Speaker 1: squad or somebody else's practice squad, and so these guys
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Speaker 1: are excited to get the opportunity. And then they went
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Speaker 1: out Thursday night against Dallas and gave a really nice
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Speaker 1: effort in a in a pretty tough situation. And then
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Speaker 1: the second part of it is Joshua Dobbs really gave
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Speaker 1: them a lift offensively anti offensively as well. And so
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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of funny to have been in
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Speaker 1: the circumstances they've been in. These are a lot of
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Speaker 1: guys who feel like, now, hey, you've got something to
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Speaker 1: play for this week, You've got an opportunity. You feel
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Speaker 1: like you have a quarterback who can sort of take
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Speaker 1: care of the business of running the offense. And so
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Speaker 1: as I watched him practice yesterday, I again saw the
19:25
Speaker 1: same thing they are. They are not the lifeless team
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Speaker 1: that looks like they're They've got the surfboards on the
19:31
Speaker 1: car and and the car is already running for the
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Speaker 1: off season. We'll see if it carries over means anything,
19:37
Speaker 1: but it's it's very surprising when you consider where they are,
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Speaker 1: having lost six in a row, and what they look
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Speaker 1: like when they work, and how they played last Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: It does not look like a team that has given up.
19:52
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's obviously always the topic when a team plays
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Speaker 1: the Titans. He looked fine to me in the first
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Speaker 1: half of there in weeks routine. But you've seen this
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Speaker 1: guy play his whole career. You see him playing now,
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Speaker 1: where is he in terms of explosiveness, in terms of
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Speaker 1: the kind of running back he is? John He's still
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Speaker 1: the same guy, um, and I think that's been the
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Speaker 1: most impressive thing about his return this year. And it
20:16
Speaker 1: was really sort of a fortunate thing for where where
20:19
Speaker 1: the injury happened last year's when he came back to
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, he was healed, and so he got to
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Speaker 1: spend the offseason not rehabbing, but getting in shape doing
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Speaker 1: what Derrick Henry does, and he's come back and been
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry again. Um, I think what's gonna be nice
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Speaker 1: for for him is that he's had the week off
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Speaker 1: to sort of let whatever bumps and bruises that you
20:43
Speaker 1: normally have this time of year healed. And so that's
20:46
Speaker 1: a good thing for the Titans. The key with him
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Speaker 1: and that game was the primary example, is they can't
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Speaker 1: get in a situation where he can't play in the
20:57
Speaker 1: second half meeting. He's not a third down back. We
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Speaker 1: all know that if you get the lead on the
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Speaker 1: Titans and you put them in a difficult spot in
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Speaker 1: the second half, he is essentially not a factor. And
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Speaker 1: so can they get in a game where they can
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Speaker 1: keep using him all four quarters? And that's that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be one of the keys in all of this because John,
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Speaker 1: if you can, he still got the pop to do
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Speaker 1: what he does. And that's that's one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: keys for Saturday night for the Titans be able to
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Speaker 1: use Derrick Henry for all four quarters. Jacks Drive Time Monday,
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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday mornings on Jaguars dot Com and the
21:37
Speaker 1: Jaguars social channels Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. Let's wrap
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Speaker 1: the week with a preview of my weekly conversation with
21:43
Speaker 1: Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. I asked
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Speaker 1: him this week if he could believe we've arrived at
21:49
Speaker 1: a winner take all Week eight teen game for the
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Speaker 1: division title. Of course I can believe we're here. It's
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Speaker 1: the NFL. That's the beauty of it. I mean, you
21:57
Speaker 1: just keep playing. You never know when the momentum is
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Speaker 1: gonna turn in your favor. You know, you never know
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Speaker 1: when you're gonna just hit that stretch of good ball play.
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Speaker 1: You'll see it in Spurs. We saw it in Spurts.
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Speaker 1: You know, throughout the course of the season, we saw
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Speaker 1: this team go up, go down, go up or down
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Speaker 1: when some close, some closem And that's just the beauty
22:18
Speaker 1: of the NFL if you just put it for a
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Speaker 1: moment and look at the Minnesota Vikings. They're a team
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Speaker 1: who has won more games this season than anyone by
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Speaker 1: very very margins, I mean three points, two points, come
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Speaker 1: back victories, and then they go get blowed out by
22:35
Speaker 1: Green Bay a week ago. You know, so that's you know,
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Speaker 1: a team who hasn't played well, but they're finding their
22:42
Speaker 1: niche and they're gonna end up in the in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: And uh, and I really think that as long as
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville stays confidence, stays, believes in the you know, believe
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Speaker 1: in each other, they're gonna be right on time where
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Speaker 1: they need to be. Bred. Let's get into this man chop.
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Speaker 1: And of course when you face Tennessee, the number one
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Speaker 1: priority is slowing down Derrick Henry. Well, he got his
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Speaker 1: yardage early in the last meeting back in Week fourteen,
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Speaker 1: first quarter especially, and then of course had the big
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Speaker 1: fumble right before halftime that flipped the game around a lot,
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Speaker 1: and then they had to abandon the running game. Well,
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Speaker 1: if they have to abandon the running game this time
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Speaker 1: it's Joshua Dobbs back there in the second career start,
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Speaker 1: that would be the perfect scenario for the Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: if they can get it out of Derrick Henry's hands altogether,
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Speaker 1: of course, and that's that's gonna be the major focus here. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's always the major focus with every other thirty one
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Speaker 1: teams around the league or other thirty teams around the league,
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Speaker 1: is to stop there Henry, which is not an easy task.
23:46
Speaker 1: He had, you know, just about a hundred yards a
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Speaker 1: halftime and then we found a way to make those
23:52
Speaker 1: adjustments create some turnover opportunities, which the then resulted in,
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Speaker 1: you know, us gaining the momentum. And that's what you
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Speaker 1: have to do. You gotta keep hammering away. You want
24:03
Speaker 1: to have the Joshua uh Dip situation present itself. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's been in the league for a while. Let's be honest,
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Speaker 1: he's a good player. Because he's in the NFL, he's
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Speaker 1: not a great player. You know, you want to get
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Speaker 1: after him. You want to make sure that you're your discipline,
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Speaker 1: You're using your discipline, you're using your focus, because he
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Speaker 1: can't run around. You know, we saw the second half
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Speaker 1: of that game after they sat down Zack Wilson, I
24:28
Speaker 1: can't remember the t bow look alike that the guy
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Speaker 1: with all the muscles, the backup quarterback. You know, he
24:32
Speaker 1: came out running like a madman. And I believe that
24:36
Speaker 1: the Titans will try to do some of that. You know,
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Speaker 1: if I have to bet on you know the Titans
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Speaker 1: game plan, what are they gonna do to try to
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Speaker 1: keep the Jaguars off face? I would be willing to
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Speaker 1: say one, They're gonna always try to establage Derrick Henry too.
24:52
Speaker 1: I think they'll have some wildcats situations in formations for Derek,
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Speaker 1: and then really try to create some different leverages miss
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Speaker 1: mat matches. And the third thing, create some zone reads,
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Speaker 1: some stuff that the Jets were doing. Give jobs an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to use the strings, you know, use his assets,
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Speaker 1: which are his legs more so than his arm. But
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Speaker 1: he also was a good player. You know, he can run,
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Speaker 1: he can throw it out of pocket. So I I
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Speaker 1: like to I'm willing to say the Titans are going
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Speaker 1: to try something of that nature along those lines, just
25:24
Speaker 1: to throw the defense off. The full conversation available Saturday
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Speaker 1: on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network and of course in
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Speaker 1: pregame radio. That'll do it for this week, and the
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Speaker 1: stage is set for arguably the biggest regular season game
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Speaker 1: in Jaguars history. The Tennessee Titans at seven and nine
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Speaker 1: meet the Jacksonville Jaguars at eight and eight. It's a winner,
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Speaker 1: take all showdown for the a f C South title.
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Speaker 1: Win orsi would do for the Jags. We're on the
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Speaker 1: air in Jacksonville at five o'clock Saturday, with a public
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Speaker 1: salegate show at seven o'clock. It's countdown to kickoff on
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network. Kickoff for the week eight teen
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Speaker 1: matchup is set for eight fifteen East and if you
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Speaker 1: can't be here, catching on ABC and ESPN enjoy the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Haste yourself Saturday before the game please and make it
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Speaker 1: as loud as possible Saturday night. Thanks for listening. I'm J. P. Shadrick.
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