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Jaguars looking for consistency in week 5 | Week in Review: October 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: with Jaguars Happy our Radio Monday. As always, Pete Prisco
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Speaker 1: and Tony Basselli react to the previous game, this time
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Speaker 1: lost to the Eagles. Tony Basselli and Pete Prisco Joe
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Speaker 1: this from Elsewhere on this Monday, and good afternoon, Pete.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with you today. What's up Yeah, that's um.
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Speaker 1: But ball security. Take care of the day of football.
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Speaker 1: I don't care how wet it is. You have to
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Speaker 1: take care of the football. That was not a good
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Speaker 1: performance at all for Trevor Lawrence. And it seemed to me,
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Speaker 1: and you guys would know better than me because you
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Speaker 1: were you you talked to the group there. But it
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Speaker 1: looked like the wet ball really bothered him and really
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Speaker 1: impacted the way he played. By the way, when he
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Speaker 1: the first fumble, when he dropped it on that it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a turnover, but he recovered it, but he had
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Speaker 1: a guy wide open that would have continued that drive
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Speaker 1: and he was getting ready to throw it to him
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Speaker 1: and it fell out of his hand. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: officially a turnover that it was recovered by the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: It was fourth but that's right. It was fourth down.
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's fourth down. But it didn't matter if
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Speaker 1: he recovered it or not. But it's still he had
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Speaker 1: a guy on He had a guy open, Tim Jones
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Speaker 1: I think was open right in front of him and
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Speaker 1: he would have hit him for a first down. So
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Speaker 1: little things the center exchange, by the way, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go back to that play the play before Travis et
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Speaker 1: n got the first thing. Why didn't they challenge that?
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Speaker 1: I think he got it. It was first glancing here
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Speaker 1: in the studio. We were sitting here watching it. Me
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Speaker 1: and Mike Dempsey were here, and that was the first
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Speaker 1: thing we said, take a challenge on this. It was
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even closed. He was about a yard over.
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Speaker 1: I mean at least a half yard over. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean that was a bad decision by Doug Peterson. He
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Speaker 1: should have challenged that. I didn't like that call um.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like up fourteen seven the third and ten draw.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like that one bit. And I get it
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Speaker 1: it's raining, but you had hit some passes already in
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Speaker 1: the rain, so clearly you could have hit some more. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's a ball security JP. If
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Speaker 1: you don't take care of the football, you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: win games. Yeah. And they had obviously taken the ball
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Speaker 1: away a bunch of this year and had the benefits
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Speaker 1: of that. Let's try Tony was Sally, are you with us? Tony?
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm with you. I'm with you. Can hear me.
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Speaker 1: We've got you clearly audio wise, at least we don't
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Speaker 1: have to look at. We got the best of both worlds.
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Speaker 1: Whatever I turned the camera on, it's not working, though.
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Speaker 1: We'll try to redial it during the break. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I agree with most of what we said.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think unless you were there you
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Speaker 1: could appreciate how bad that weather was and the wind
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Speaker 1: was gusting um And I think the wind is as
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Speaker 1: much of an issue, you know, especially for a young
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Speaker 1: quarterback to deal with in anything. And you know, but
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Speaker 1: it was a team. If you look at what the
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Speaker 1: formula for their victory and the two games coming into
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Speaker 1: that game, it was dominating the lines with scrimmage good
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying great, but good quarterback play in no turnovers,
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Speaker 1: and they were minus four on the day and they
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Speaker 1: were fortunate they weren't minus five because of the Christian
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Speaker 1: of the James Robinson fumbled that bounced right to Christian
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Speaker 1: Kirk and so they came into the season plus seven
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Speaker 1: and now they're gonna be plus three um. And so
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Speaker 1: the formula that they had used to win football games,
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Speaker 1: they did everything opposite of that. Now, the good news
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Speaker 1: is you played really poorly against a very good team
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Speaker 1: on the road, and you still had the chance with
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Speaker 1: the ball in your hand, a minute fifty four to
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Speaker 1: go down and tie it up. And so there's you know, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's not where you wanted to be. Yes, it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a game where you're gonna get You're gonna look
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Speaker 1: back and be frustrated that you think you should have
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Speaker 1: won or very easily could have won if it wasn't
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Speaker 1: you didn't have the self afflicted mistakes, you know, pain
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Speaker 1: and the mistakes. But you can't turn it over. And
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Speaker 1: Trevor didn't play well, and there was other guys that
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Speaker 1: didn't play well. It's not all in Trevor. I thought
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Speaker 1: the defense was very poor in their gap gap integrity.
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Speaker 1: They were chasing ghosts. They were um, they were not stout.
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Speaker 1: Now that's a very good Eagles offensive line, but they
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Speaker 1: played most of the game without their starting left tackle
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Speaker 1: and still, um, we're very effective. And there was not
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Speaker 1: There was no real pass rush, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: something that again, this team is not a great pass rushing.
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Speaker 1: the best sound from press conferences or interviews this week,
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Speaker 1: starting with Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback, Wednesday, addressing his confidence
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Speaker 1: and the team's confidence after five giveaways on offense last week,
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Speaker 1: losing by eight and that's you know, losing by one
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Speaker 1: score and we didn't play well. Still we lost the game.
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Speaker 1: That's the end of the day. It goes in the
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Speaker 1: lost column, goes in a win column for them. So
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Speaker 1: that's the end result. But I think the positive is
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Speaker 1: you know, seeing how well we how well we can play,
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Speaker 1: and how good we can be when we when we're
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Speaker 1: we don't make mistakes and we don't shoot ourselves in
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Speaker 1: the foot, we don't turn the ball over, when we
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Speaker 1: play um in sync, when we complement each other offensively
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Speaker 1: and defensively. I mean, you saw us jump out of
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Speaker 1: that lead early, and it's just you know, being more
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Speaker 1: consistent in doing that throughout the game. Um, we've done
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Speaker 1: that the two weeks before. That's kind of what we did,
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Speaker 1: and you saw the end result. And then this week
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Speaker 1: did that early and just didn't finish. So we know
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Speaker 1: we're heading in the right direct and but it's just
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Speaker 1: about consistency. So this this did nothing to diminish the
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Speaker 1: belief within the locker room at all that this team
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Speaker 1: it's gotta it's got a chance to do some good things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean we we really believe in who we are
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Speaker 1: and in the talent we have. But not even not
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Speaker 1: even the talent. Obviously, you have to have talent to
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Speaker 1: be a good team in this league and everybody does.
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Speaker 1: But um, it's really the way we work, the way
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Speaker 1: we prepare, our process. We trust that and it's it's
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Speaker 1: been paying off for us. And the same thing Sunday,
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Speaker 1: we were prepared, we just didn't execute, and that's you know,
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Speaker 1: those are sometimes different for different reasons. Um, but I
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Speaker 1: think just we've trust our we've trusted our process, and
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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's worked well for us. And obviously,
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Speaker 1: just like I said, continuing to be more consistent though
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Speaker 1: moving forward to for a young team and young quarterback,
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Speaker 1: is that the hardest thing to kind of get ahold
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Speaker 1: load As things kind of going here, Lauren and everyone's
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Speaker 1: together for the first time, coach, I think that's something
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Speaker 1: that kind of grows over the season. Obviously, it's still early.
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Speaker 1: We you know, we just finished the first what quarter
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Speaker 1: of the season, so we still have still a long
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Speaker 1: ways to go to to get to where we want
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Speaker 1: to be as far as playing our best football at
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Speaker 1: the end of the year. And um, that's the that's
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Speaker 1: the beautiful thing, right. I mean, it's the first quarter
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Speaker 1: of the season and we've played some some really good
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Speaker 1: football early, have played not so great at times too,
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Speaker 1: But there's so much to build off of good and bad.
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Speaker 1: So using all that but to your point, using all
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Speaker 1: that to be more consistent, to ride the highs and
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Speaker 1: to withstand the lows. The highs and lows of the games,
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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have those. And obviously, like I
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Speaker 1: said on Sunday, when you jump out to a lead,
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Speaker 1: like how can we keep piling on and really take
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Speaker 1: advantage that situation? And then you know, when we go
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Speaker 1: down they had a couple of scores in a row,
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Speaker 1: and we're not moving the ball on offense, how do
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Speaker 1: we bounce back from that, which I thought we actually
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Speaker 1: did in the game. So but then just finishing, you know.
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Speaker 1: So there's always things, um too, that you can do
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Speaker 1: to be more consistent, But it's just managing all the situations.
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Speaker 1: And we're a young team, but I feel like we're
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Speaker 1: getting a lot of great experience and We're just gonna
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Speaker 1: continue to learn, you know, good about where you are
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Speaker 1: from where you kind of the kind of stuff. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I've made a lot of progress,
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Speaker 1: especially from last year from where I was. Um obviously
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Speaker 1: didn't didn't play well on Sunday, so that's that's not
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Speaker 1: where I want to be. But if you look at
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Speaker 1: the year, you know, as a whole, I think I've
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Speaker 1: made I know I've made a lot of steps in
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Speaker 1: the right direction, and I know I've improved a lot.
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Speaker 1: So continue to build off that. Don't let one game
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Speaker 1: affect my confidence. You know, I'm still the same player
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Speaker 1: that went into Philly on Sunday and then still the
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Speaker 1: same player here on on Wednesday getting ready for the Texans,
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Speaker 1: So not letting that affect me at all. Um, Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I know I have to play better, you know. That's
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Speaker 1: everybody knows that your quarterbacks gotta play well to win
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Speaker 1: in this league and especially going down the road you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully get into the playoffs all those things. UM gotta
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Speaker 1: play well. So I mean that we all understand it,
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Speaker 1: but just for me, Um, I really, if I can
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Speaker 1: just stay consistent, keep making progress, and keep taking those steps.
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Speaker 1: I really believe in myself and this team now the
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Press Taylor Thursday on the quarterback play and
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Speaker 1: much more. Yeah, it's something we've emphasized since the day
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Speaker 1: we got here and continue emphasizing with him in the
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Speaker 1: pocket of you know, always always being ball aware in
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Speaker 1: the pocket, having two hands on being secure in your
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Speaker 1: grip um, and you know that that's one of the
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Speaker 1: danger zones we talked about is in the pocket and
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Speaker 1: the way he holds football. We continue to emphasize that
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Speaker 1: an individual, continue to show him examples of good bad. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know what happens quarterbacks, You get hit in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: you're extended, you're ready to throw the football. Something happens
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Speaker 1: from time to time. You know, we want to do
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Speaker 1: everything we can in our power with a drill work
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Speaker 1: with just emphasizing showing him good, showing him bad. He
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Speaker 1: understands that and and that's something he's he's working too,
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Speaker 1: uh correct himself as well. Um, but yeah, it happens.
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Speaker 1: It was very unfortunately. The unfortunate part in that game
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Speaker 1: at least was there were two completely unforced you know,
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Speaker 1: we had a we had a quarterback center exchange, and
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Speaker 1: then we had one that just slipped out of our hand. Um.
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Speaker 1: So there's are really the disappointing ones when when it
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Speaker 1: happens in the pocket, it's gonna happen from time to time.
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Speaker 1: You you want to do everything you can and not
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Speaker 1: let that happen. But we understand that. But the two
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Speaker 1: unforced were the ones that really really hurt us. How
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Speaker 1: do you just throw the game that nature? You don't
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Speaker 1: hear him getting one plays right, which is problem certainly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it definitely changes. Uh. You know, you gotta look a
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Speaker 1: lot of good plays on the call sheet that you
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Speaker 1: want to get to and you're just not able to
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Speaker 1: When you get forty seven plays, Um, you know, you
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Speaker 1: you you don't get to run the ball as many
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Speaker 1: times as you want. You end up in different situations
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Speaker 1: where it's a two minute and you're forced to throw
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Speaker 1: the football. And so it definitely excuse your numbers. UM.
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Speaker 1: Over the course of the game, big with Jamal Agnew
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Speaker 1: before you on Sunday, and do you think he's earned
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Speaker 1: a role moving forward? Certainly, he definitely stepped up. You know,
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Speaker 1: we Zay kind of battled through the week to see
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Speaker 1: if we get him ready to go. Um. Ultimately, we
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Speaker 1: just made the decision that it was best for for
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Speaker 1: Za and for the team to get let's say, get
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Speaker 1: healthy a little bit longer UM, and part of that
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Speaker 1: comes from we know what Jamal is and what he's
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Speaker 1: capable of, so we had a lot of confidence that
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Speaker 1: he and Tim Jones could step up and fulfill that
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Speaker 1: role and uh, you know that kind of parts with
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Speaker 1: a lot of different people. We have the backs, we
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Speaker 1: have some versetile running backs. We have verse top tight
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Speaker 1: ends that we feel like we can plug and play
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Speaker 1: and kind of move things around if we need to.
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Speaker 1: If a situation like that comes up where we have
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Speaker 1: a guy that's kind of a gay day to day
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Speaker 1: decision and ends up not making it. We have the
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Speaker 1: pieces um within our offense to be able to move
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Speaker 1: around like that, but Jamal is certainly one of those pieces.
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Speaker 1: The greatest thing about Jamal is his mental flexibility. We
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Speaker 1: could tell Jamal the day of the game, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: need you to play X and on this point I
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Speaker 1: need to play F and that play needs to play
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Speaker 1: that he can handle it. He's one of the smartest
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Speaker 1: guys we have, communicates really really well on the huddle UM,
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Speaker 1: and he's going in the huddle with other smart guys,
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Speaker 1: so he's able to talk with Marvin Christian, Tim Jones,
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Speaker 1: and they're kind of there were a lot of times
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Speaker 1: where you probably don't notice it, but they're switching positions
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Speaker 1: and you would never know that unless you knew exactly
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Speaker 1: what our formation was called. But you know, we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of smart guys that give us the ability
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Speaker 1: to do that, and Jamal's just one of those guys.
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Speaker 1: Head coach Doug Peterson Wednesday explained what happened last week
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Speaker 1: with the turnovers and the defense giving up two rushing
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Speaker 1: yards plus he looked ahead to the Houston Texans. Now,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's why you practice, honestly, and that's why
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Speaker 1: you prepare um, you know, and you don't expect, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, you don't expect what happened to happen. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, as you go through the week,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you you have great optimistic your optimism that
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Speaker 1: you know things are going to go your way, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that's just why you practice and prepare each week.
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Speaker 1: When you watch the date back the struggles on and
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Speaker 1: run defense, do you write that off as a one
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Speaker 1: off circumstantial against the Eagles or were they're actually things
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Speaker 1: you saw there that No, there were things there that
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Speaker 1: we need to fix. I mean a little bit of
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Speaker 1: the Washington deal kind of raised his head a little bit. Um,
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Speaker 1: All fixable, all correctable. I'll teachable Um, And that's going
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Speaker 1: to be the focus this week, to make sure we
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Speaker 1: stayed disciplined with and this is a good running team,
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Speaker 1: so you know, we got to make sure we stayed
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Speaker 1: disciplined in those uh in those run lines. Do you
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Speaker 1: mean appears only running back to get any carriers for
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Speaker 1: them last week? And obviously the rookie, you know he
12:50
Speaker 1: can perform well. A lot of folks around here believe
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Speaker 1: he has a lot of tread on his tire and
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Speaker 1: maybe should have played a little bit more at Florida.
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Speaker 1: What do you see for him? Yeah, I mean he
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Speaker 1: was somebody we liked in the draft and and Um,
13:02
Speaker 1: that's what you it's what you see. He's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's he's he's a load. You know, he's only five
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Speaker 1: nines about to eight team, but he's thick and he's solid.
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Speaker 1: And Um had a nice seventy five yard run last week,
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Speaker 1: and you know he's capable of doing that. So it's
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Speaker 1: got to be all hands on deck. Obviously to to
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Speaker 1: get him on the ground. And um, you know that's
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Speaker 1: our division though, right, I mean, this is a run
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Speaker 1: division and and uh, we've got some great running backs
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Speaker 1: that we gotta we gotta take care of sid if fully,
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Speaker 1: let's say, can't go, how do you manage death along
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Speaker 1: the defensive lot, especially knowing that run defense is going
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Speaker 1: to be incredible. Yeah, I mean there's some things that
13:34
Speaker 1: we can you know, we can we can get to
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Speaker 1: without really you know, identifying them right now. Um, but
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Speaker 1: you know there's there's ways of maneuvering, you know, and
13:44
Speaker 1: manipulating our roster um in the week of preparation, I
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Speaker 1: should say, And and um, you know, as we get
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Speaker 1: closer to game time, we'll have we'll have everything ironed down.
13:54
Speaker 1: What sort of stressed in Brandon Cooks put on a
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Speaker 1: secondary quite a bit. I mean, entering guy, he's quick,
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Speaker 1: he's uh, he's slippery, he knows he knows defense, knows
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Speaker 1: how to get open um and played against him a
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Speaker 1: few times now and and he's just he's just that.
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Speaker 1: And he's the you know, he's kind of the focal point,
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Speaker 1: you know, offensively in the passing game for them. And
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Speaker 1: and we gotta understand where he is and how they
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Speaker 1: you know, how they move him around. How pleased have
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Speaker 1: you been with your safety play so far the season
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Speaker 1: ra Sean and Cisco. I think after the first game,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Washington game, they really settled in. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're seeing great communication between these two. They're getting hands
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Speaker 1: on the football obviously, both of them. Uh, it was
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Speaker 1: great to see, Uh, you know, Cisco get the interception
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Speaker 1: last week for the touchdown. You know, ray Sean did
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Speaker 1: that against uh against Indie the week two weeks before.
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Speaker 1: So they're they're starting to really play complimentary football back there.
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Speaker 1: And and it all starts with communication. And finally, wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Jamal Agnew stepped into the role of the injured
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Speaker 1: Za Jones last week. In the second quarter, the Jags
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Speaker 1: ran a wide receiver screen to Agnew on the left side,
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Speaker 1: but he had to wait for the left tackle him Robinson,
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Speaker 1: to get in front, and then a pancake block sprung him.
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Speaker 1: That plays designed to um offensive line to tackle in
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Speaker 1: the guard to come out and lead block um so
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Speaker 1: and then I when I caught it, I've seen nothing
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Speaker 1: but green Jersey. So I was like, all right, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna let Cam get out here first, and then I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna start running. So and I've seen Cam
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Speaker 1: Pancake came and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna follow him,
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Speaker 1: So I just kept going. Credit to Cam. Cam is
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Speaker 1: probably one of the most athletic tackles in the game
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Speaker 1: right now. Um, you know, we do a lot of
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Speaker 1: things to get him in space, lead block and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. So, um, it's just fun watch him. He's
15:30
Speaker 1: been doing that all year or two. He did at
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Speaker 1: the forty four on the Colts to completely pancake. Though
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Speaker 1: injuries are now, do you feel like you're gonna get
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Speaker 1: more baths than the rotation even if everybody's healthy. Um,
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Speaker 1: I mean I hopefully, I'd imagine, but I mean I'm
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Speaker 1: just playing whatever well I am. Obviously I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: back there returning kicks, trying to make plays. Um. And
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15:57
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Speaker 1: shows this week, Starting with a preview of this week's game.
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Speaker 1: On Jack's Drivetime Wednesday morning, Houston Texans reporter Drew Doherty
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Speaker 1: joined Ashland Sullivan, John Osan, and Brian Sexton for a
17:19
Speaker 1: preview of the oh three and one Houston Texans. That
17:23
Speaker 1: is true, they are better than last year, but they're
17:25
Speaker 1: still oh three and one, and there's nothing real really
17:28
Speaker 1: smile about when you think about that record. On the whole. However,
17:32
Speaker 1: there are some bright spots, and the brightest of them
17:34
Speaker 1: all is a guy who's very, very familiar to all
17:37
Speaker 1: of you back there in Jacksonville. Damian Pierce, the running back,
17:40
Speaker 1: has been a breath of share ever since the pads
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Speaker 1: came on in training camp. You took notice. And then
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Speaker 1: in the preseason game he was clearly the best guy,
17:50
Speaker 1: the best weapon out there for the team, so much
17:53
Speaker 1: so that he averaged about seven eight nine yards to
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Speaker 1: carry in the preseason opener. They held him out of
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Speaker 1: that second preseason game because they said we've seen enough.
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Speaker 1: And then he comes in and basically over four games
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Speaker 1: he's averaging about sixteen seventeen touches per and he just
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Speaker 1: cracked the hundred yard mark last Sunday, largely apart to
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Speaker 1: a seventy five yard touchdown run. But you take that
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Speaker 1: run out of the mix and he still was good
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Speaker 1: for about four point three yards per carry. And this
18:19
Speaker 1: was a Texans team that was dead last in the
18:22
Speaker 1: NFL in yards per cary last year, only three point four.
18:25
Speaker 1: So even when he wasn't peeling off monster runs, he
18:29
Speaker 1: was still doing his job and getting four point three.
18:32
Speaker 1: So this guy has been excellent. One weird little abnormally
18:36
Speaker 1: from last week in the stat line. He caught six passes,
18:40
Speaker 1: but he only got eight yards off and a lot
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Speaker 1: of that A lot of it was kind of due
18:43
Speaker 1: to ball placement. I mean he was having a sort
18:45
Speaker 1: of contort his body on the run and reach behind himself.
18:48
Speaker 1: I think if he gets the ball just where it
18:50
Speaker 1: needs to be, he's gonna get some good yardage catching
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Speaker 1: the ball as well. So he's been excellent, But the
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Speaker 1: run defense hasn't been good. The defense as a whole
18:58
Speaker 1: has given up big aids when they can't and David
19:01
Speaker 1: smells he just gotta play better. He said, so himself.
19:04
Speaker 1: He's got to make the throws and needed and it's
19:06
Speaker 1: been a struggle in that department. Jack's Drive time here
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19:16
Speaker 1: Also this week on Wednesday, Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: Bucky Osha and I talked through the importance of the
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Speaker 1: next two games in the division race, home against the
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Speaker 1: Texans this week and on the road against the Colts
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Speaker 1: next week. Yeah. Division games are always big, and I think, uh,
19:31
Speaker 1: list into the players. They talked about the importance and
19:34
Speaker 1: winning the division because it gives you a guaranteed ticket
19:37
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. And so when we think about the Texans,
19:40
Speaker 1: the Titans, the Colts, those games matter, they matter a
19:43
Speaker 1: little more. And so even though the Texans are struggling
19:47
Speaker 1: and have had a tough time, doesn't matter. In a
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Speaker 1: division game, you focus on knocking him off and playing
19:52
Speaker 1: your best, particularly coming off a loss. I expect the
19:55
Speaker 1: Jaguars and I expect the coaches to focus on let's
19:58
Speaker 1: get back on track, let's take care business, because we
20:00
Speaker 1: need to win the division games at home because it matters. Yeah,
20:03
Speaker 1: to me, JP, this game has a lot of what
20:07
Speaker 1: you would call non sexy storylines running through it, like
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be one that in the NFL
20:13
Speaker 1: network plays up. And I think even fans might look
20:16
Speaker 1: and say, well, it's not Philadelphia, not in but you
20:18
Speaker 1: have a chance to be too. And oh in the
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Speaker 1: a f C South, you have a chance to move
20:22
Speaker 1: to two. And oh here in the stadium, which they
20:24
Speaker 1: have not been what they have been good anywhere. But
20:27
Speaker 1: you know, when a new coach, new regime comes in,
20:29
Speaker 1: you want to start establishing that it's tough to play somewhere.
20:33
Speaker 1: They haven't beaten a team other than the Colts in
20:35
Speaker 1: the a f C South since the Minshew game out here,
20:38
Speaker 1: and and who has a nine team and they beat
20:40
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. So you've got to start establishing things
20:44
Speaker 1: in the division. And it's it's a subtly tough game
20:47
Speaker 1: because even though the Texans are three and one, they
20:52
Speaker 1: go into this weekend thinking, if we win this in
20:54
Speaker 1: Tennessee loses their half game out. I've always thought until
20:58
Speaker 1: a team believe is it's out of it in the NFL,
21:01
Speaker 1: which the Texans do not believe that yet they are
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Speaker 1: a threat and they're strong, they're not gonna quit and
21:06
Speaker 1: uh so I think this is I believe that Jaggar
21:09
Speaker 1: was the better team. They've earned the right to be favorites,
21:12
Speaker 1: but it is a it's a tough game that I
21:15
Speaker 1: think we'll say a lot about this team in terms
21:17
Speaker 1: of where it's gonna Gouddle up with Blucky Brooks Airs
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Speaker 1: Wednesdays at four o'clock on the Jags social media channels
21:22
Speaker 1: and Jaguars dot com. And finally, this week the ozone
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Speaker 1: podcast Ohshar caught up with Jaguars right tackle Jowan Taylor.
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Speaker 1: You have been a storyline this season, Uh, with everybody
21:34
Speaker 1: making a big deal at how are you're playing? So
21:36
Speaker 1: I have a couple of topics. Is it that big
21:39
Speaker 1: of a difference where you unfairly criticize before you know
21:42
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at? Sometimes offensive line people, Uh they
21:45
Speaker 1: see it, they think they know. Uh how much better
21:48
Speaker 1: are you planned? Do you feel like it's that big
21:50
Speaker 1: of a difference. I mean, you know, planning is professional.
21:52
Speaker 1: You know you're under a microscopes, So you know, I
21:55
Speaker 1: have criticism some days, I don't, you know, I feel
21:57
Speaker 1: like I'm playing better though, for sure, um, and feel
22:00
Speaker 1: like I'm not where I want to be at yet,
22:01
Speaker 1: but I'm just trying to get better every week. Um,
22:03
Speaker 1: I feel like I took a step back last week.
22:05
Speaker 1: I just had a bad game, but um, definitely just
22:07
Speaker 1: trying to keep improving and getting better. I've actually this before,
22:10
Speaker 1: but that's another way. Do you ever think as an
22:13
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, boy, if I played another position and had
22:18
Speaker 1: this game, because you, guys are the one job where
22:23
Speaker 1: you can play well for seventy five plays, give up
22:26
Speaker 1: to and people think you had a horrible game. You
22:29
Speaker 1: do that on defense miss two tackles, Maybe somebody doesn't notice.
22:32
Speaker 1: Do you ever fantasize about, boy, be great to play
22:34
Speaker 1: the spot, just maybe not another spot. But you know,
22:38
Speaker 1: it's just that's just part of the game, man. You know,
22:40
Speaker 1: playets position. You got to know that. You know, like
22:42
Speaker 1: you said, one bad play can change from having a
22:45
Speaker 1: great game, so having a bad game. So, um, you
22:47
Speaker 1: know the position we play. You gotta block guys while
22:49
Speaker 1: going backwards, Guys who are faster, guys who can be
22:52
Speaker 1: more athletic than you. So you know, you just gotta
22:54
Speaker 1: be able to be in the right position at the
22:55
Speaker 1: right time. And you know some days you may have
22:58
Speaker 1: one bad play, but you know you just gotta off
23:00
Speaker 1: and keep moving. Um, it's a game. You just you
23:02
Speaker 1: gotta play one step and one player at the time.
23:03
Speaker 1: And uh, you know you gotta have short memory in
23:05
Speaker 1: this game. So um, you know, just trying to just
23:08
Speaker 1: get better every week. Man, he's not that I want
23:10
Speaker 1: to play another position. I think about other positions, but
23:13
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it would be nice to have
23:15
Speaker 1: that that. You know, how the defense has it. You
23:17
Speaker 1: know they can get one sack of game and lose
23:20
Speaker 1: every other rip and still be great and still be
23:22
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, still be All Pro. But that's
23:24
Speaker 1: just how that's just how the game is. Tell me
23:27
Speaker 1: about playing next to Sheriff, It's amazing. He's a he's
23:31
Speaker 1: a great guy, great veteran. Um. You know, he's he's
23:34
Speaker 1: been All Pro multiple times, Pro bowler multiple times. And
23:37
Speaker 1: having him in the in the room, just in the
23:39
Speaker 1: old line room in general has been amazing. You know,
23:41
Speaker 1: he's just a great leader as well, and he's just
23:44
Speaker 1: a great guy overall. We love having there and playing
23:46
Speaker 1: next to him is amazing. Um, you know, we we've
23:49
Speaker 1: definitely got a lot of jailed, a lot since he's
23:51
Speaker 1: been here and just taking those rips next to him,
23:53
Speaker 1: and you know, O, T. A. S. And Camp. I've
23:55
Speaker 1: just been learning stuff from him, and he's been teaching
23:57
Speaker 1: me a lot of stuff, and I feel like we've
23:59
Speaker 1: been jellling together. With the follow Zone podcast on the
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars will host the Houston Texans Sunday on Legends Weekend,
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Speaker 1: Tony Boselli will receive his Ring of Excellence from the
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Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame at halftime. We're on the
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Speaker 1: air in Jacksonville at ten o'clock with the Public's tailgate show.
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Speaker 1: At noon, it's countdown to kick Off on the Jaguars
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