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Can the Jaguars Win the AFC South? · Duval Daily: A Jacksonville Jaguars Podcast

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacksonville Jaguar's fans welcome in to do all daily presented by Gen Jack.com.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jordan Alugo.
• 0:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for being here Wednesday, September third one day away from NFL regular season football just a few sleeps away from the Jaguar is taking on the Panthers in week one and we will be previewing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the ever loving crap out of that game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Starting tomorrow morning, through the rest of the weekend, we are going to be previewing Jaguar's Panthers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be talking about all the little nooks and crannies of that matchup and everything in between.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we've also got Club Jaguar tonight at eight thirty p.m.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be on UCF Jaguar's channel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So make sure to be there.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's only going to be on his channel this week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next week it'll be on my channel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be rotating back and forth.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Jag wars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's right here.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: The regular season is right here.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Liam Cohen told me today that he has confidence in his team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And another person who had a lot of confidence in the Jacksonville Jag wars appears to be Bill Barnwell of ESPN.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to take a look at what Bill Barnwell has to say about your Jacksonville Jag wars right here and right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thursday, September, fourths to be on the lookout for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bill Barnwell, VSPN.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What is his official title at ESPN?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: doesn't say.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's okay though.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's I would say one of their lead analysts for pro football, right?
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: He has the Jacksonville Jaguars winning the AFC South.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He has the Houston Texans not making the playoffs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and we're gonna read what Bill has to say here, analyze it, talk about it, have a good time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for being here, y'all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So picking the Jaguars to win the FC South.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm running my twenty twenty four prediction back in the FC South with the Jags taking over first place from Houston.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were off by only six games last season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I expect that to be tongue and cheek common.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard to figure that much could go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard to figure that could go
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  [SPEAKER_00]: much worse in twenty twenty five.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the likely to improve column, I wrote about how the twenty twenty four jackores were one of the more unlucky teams in the league.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They went three and ten and one score games becoming the first team in NFL history to lose ten games by seven points or less in a single season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They also were the second team in NFL history to reduce only one multiple turnover game all season and the first to do that with the benefit of a seventeen game campaign.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They will win more one score games and create more takeaways in twenty twenty five, especially with Travis Hunter joining the secondary.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like the Jaguars are running into the our new coach is obviously a major upgrade on our old coach, cycle, more than any other team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But after Trevor Lawrence endured a static and frustrating offense when healthy in twenty twenty four, the hope has to be that he gets back to his old form
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  [SPEAKER_00]: with Liam Cohen at the helm and a more modern offensive attack.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're not that far removed from the midway point of twenty twenty three when the Jaguar is wearing position to claim the top seed in the AFC in November before a Lawrence injury set them into a tail spin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then again, we were even closer to that moment twelve months ago and the Jaguar certainly did not look like a one seed at any point in twenty twenty four still.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bill Barnwell has the Jacksonville Jaguars winning the AFC South.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's not alone.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard a number of analysts that I respect, including Bill, some folks over at Yahoo, Matt Harmon, not necessarily all of these people picking the Jaguars to win the AFC South, but there's a lot of sentiment that the Jaguars could potentially make the playoffs.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that there's a strong chance they make the playoffs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I predicted them to make the playoffs at nine and eight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you haven't seen a lot of nine and eight teams making it lately outside of division winners in the AFC South, but I think that you look at the problems with the Texans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's mostly just looking at their offensive line situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's fair to criticize.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no question about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Barnwell hits on a lot of, a lot of good points.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jack Wars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is such a hotly debated argument year to year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Teams that were close to winning it, and you can make the argument.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every team is close to winning every game almost every single week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, yes, it's the NFL.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the League of Parity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Most games are close.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Bill Barnwell highlights an excellent point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jaguars were the first team in NFL history to lose ten games by seven points or less in a single season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they were that close in that many games with horrible coaching, with myriad injuries.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lots of poor execution.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A team that was disjointed from the top down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you have a team that has a unified vision at the top.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tony Picelli, Liam Cohen, James Gladstone, all coming in at the same time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This entire coaching staff outside of Heath Farwell, all coming in at the exact same time.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Heath Farwell being a holdover is an issue in any way shape or form.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was a wonderful decision by this organization to keep Heath Farwell as the special teams coordinator.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have talent at some of the most important positions in the sport.
• 6:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have, in my opinion, an elite edge duo, a elite duo of talents at receiver.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You might want to hold off on calling them elite until we see Travis Hunter doing it in a game, but I believe he's going to be elite.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Travis Hunter, Brian Thomas Jr., you have a quarterback with the best situation of his career who has made due with really bad situations throughout his career and is still doing a good job outside of being injured.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have upside on defense in a lot of ways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Interior that defense of line, there is upside for it to be very good.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Eric Armstrong, Mason Smith, Tyson Campbell, can he stay healthy, even if he can't.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have better options on defense now at corner, Travis Hunter, Jarion Jones, Jordan Lewis, Buster Brown when he gets healthy.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have a defense that appears to have the pieces in place to force more turnovers than they did in, twenty, twenty-four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were the second team in NFL history to produce only one multiple turnover game all season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the only team to do that in a seventeen game schedule.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Regression, even if everything stayed exactly the same as it was last year, regression would likely be coming in a positive way for the Jack Wars.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they did not bank on regression.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got rid of everybody.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got rid of their GM.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They got rid of their staff, you know, front office staff.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got rid of the coaching staff.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: They brought in new innovative, young, hungry minds to run this thing.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Tony Bicelli, who there's not not really anyone on this planet more passionate about the Jaguars being a good organization than Tony Bicelli.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think the Jaguars do have a good chance to win the AFC South.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not picking them to win the AFC South yet because I simply do have a lot of faith in the Texans ability to figure things out a little bit better on the offensive line than they did last year.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if I don't think the talent is better than it was last year, I think it's worse.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I also believe with better protection rules, better offensive line coaching, they will get more out of that group.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe in CJ Straud's ability to take over more at the line of scrimmage, which they're implementing that this year.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe in their receiving core, and I think that they're going to have the best defensive football.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be close between those two teams.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jack Wars and Texans to me are at the top of this division.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have the Texans winning it because I think they will have the most dominant unit defense or offense.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to have a dominant defense in the division.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I've got the Texans winning the division still, but I would not be surprised at all if the Jaguar is winning.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I won't be surprised if it ends up being the culture of the Titans.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Colts, I just can't see winning this division with the competitiveness and this division out, you know, not having a quarterback, you know, Daniel Jones.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, maybe Shane Stecken can work some magic again and get another bottom feeder starting, you know, back up level quarterback to actually look like a competent starter, wouldn't put a past Shane Stecken, but it's a dangerous way to live here every year.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Bill Barnwell, a lot of folks around the league have a lot of excitement about the Jacksonville Jack Wars this year, and we're going to start finding out this Sunday
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  [SPEAKER_00]: September seventh, one PM against the Carolina Panthers in Jacksonville, exactly where the Jack Wars are at right now.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you should know, week one can be flookie, but there will be no excuses if the Jack Wars can not handle business against the Panthers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No excuses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Really appreciate y'all tuning in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all have a good one.