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Speaker 1: the Week one game. On Jaguars Happy Our Radio Monday,
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Speaker 1: Pete Frisco, Tony Basselli and I discussed the social media
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Speaker 1: reaction to the play of quarterback Trevor Lawrence. But I
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Speaker 1: want to say this though, because I saw it on
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Speaker 1: Twitter today. You Jaguar fans are out of your mind
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Speaker 1: when you say he's a bust already? Are you that stupid?
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Speaker 1: Come on, guys, you're better than that. I agree with you, Pete,
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Speaker 1: I said, I mean the fans are you guys are
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Speaker 1: better fans. You're smarter fans. Than that. You don't, don't
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Speaker 1: lower yourself to that that standard. You're better than that.
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Speaker 1: A bust, give me a break. That's absurd. I have
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Speaker 1: the same conversation this morning on the radio and because
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Speaker 1: that was on Twitter, and like, come on, take a
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Speaker 1: deep breath, Like on the show this morning was saying it.
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Speaker 1: One of those guys, well they were talking because they
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Speaker 1: were responding to Twitter and stuff like that. Yeah, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they weren't. Jeffrey Dan did. Now they didn't say that,
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Speaker 1: and they I want to make sure I don't misrepresent them.
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Speaker 1: But just like kind of the noise on Twitter and
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Speaker 1: the frustration from the fans, and my point was this,
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Speaker 1: like I don't think Trevor played well. I think and
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Speaker 1: he's got to play a lot better. I think he's
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Speaker 1: been inconsistent. He was inconsistent preseason. We talked about it
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Speaker 1: gets slow starts. It was one of my it was
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Speaker 1: the key. It was the key of the game for me,
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Speaker 1: of a fast start and him being consistent. Um, but
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Speaker 1: like like hell, I still have confidence that he's going
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Speaker 1: to be the guy. Still have confidence that he's going
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Speaker 1: to get better. I mean this is the first year,
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Speaker 1: let's be clear, first year he's with a real like
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Speaker 1: in a real system, with stability at the head coach, like,
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Speaker 1: give him some time. Like and I know everyone's like,
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Speaker 1: we'll look at Herbert what he did, and look at
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. They're great players. Maybe he's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: as good as Herbert. I don't know, maybe he'll be better.
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Speaker 1: I'll go to I'll go to a guy from Buffalo
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Speaker 1: who's probably the best quarterback in the NFL right now,
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Speaker 1: guy named Josh Allen who could not hit the broadside
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Speaker 1: of a barn the first two years of his of
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Speaker 1: his pro career, and by the way, was the game
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Speaker 1: plan for him was just play man no or with
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Speaker 1: Joe one the two I think it was playing manners.
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Speaker 1: And I can't rember which one because he can't execute,
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Speaker 1: he can't find guys, and that in Belichick was killing him.
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Speaker 1: We'll look at the guy now, Josh Allen, maybe the
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Speaker 1: best quarterback in the NFL, and so like to make
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Speaker 1: a judgment after eighteen games is ridiculous. He is talented,
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Speaker 1: he's athletic, he cares, he's smart, he's tough. I mean, Pete,
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Speaker 1: you and I talked about Josh. Remember he couldn't see
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Speaker 1: you didn't see anything the first couple of years, yep.
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Speaker 1: And and I always sat there, and I was one
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Speaker 1: of the few guys that said, he's going to be really,
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Speaker 1: really good. You're wrong, just be patient. And I think
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Speaker 1: it's the same way with Trevor Larrence. You gotta admit though,
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Speaker 1: first throw of the game, he throws that rifle shot
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Speaker 1: in the middlefield, you go, oh god, here he goes.
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Speaker 1: This is the this is the moment. And then it
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Speaker 1: kind of leveled off after that. But remember the shot
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the field was Kirk I think
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Speaker 1: in twenty yards or whatever. That was the rifles. That's
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Speaker 1: what you want to see. That's him. And I just
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Speaker 1: think he got to his mechanics got a little off,
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Speaker 1: his feet weren't set, and I just don't the one
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Speaker 1: the e t n and and I just can't see
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Speaker 1: why he missed that. There's no real he had nobody
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Speaker 1: near him, nobody. My question moving forward, now, how do
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Speaker 1: you improve that red zone touch? Just a quarter bas
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Speaker 1: that you keep playing, you keep ringing reps, you keep practicing,
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Speaker 1: you keep listening to your coaching. I'm I actually think
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Speaker 1: and I am not just like listen I and I
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Speaker 1: know fans are like, oh, we're tired of this and
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Speaker 1: you're Mr Sunshine Pumper or whatever. I believe in Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: I believe he's going to be the guy. All I
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Speaker 1: know is this same conversation after not just year one,
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Speaker 1: after year two was being said about Josh Allen. It
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Speaker 1: was not until year three where people are like, oh,
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Speaker 1: in really year four where he took off and was
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Speaker 1: like the guy, and now what is this year five? Pet? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's and he's You're right, he's in the conversation and
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Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the lake. I got you, Like,
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Speaker 1: if you said you had one pick right now, and
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Speaker 1: who would you pick? Josh Allen's in the conversation absolutely
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Speaker 1: years ago it would be between Allan from Just for
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Speaker 1: Longevity read Alan, Mahomes and Herbert that's what your picks
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Speaker 1: would be or borrow one of those four. Yeah. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, um, you know me, I'll bury a
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Speaker 1: bad quarterback in an instant. So there's no way, no
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Speaker 1: way anybody should be even close to thinking Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: isn't going to be a good quarterback. He's got some issues,
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Speaker 1: there are things that need to be worked out. But
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Speaker 1: like Tony said he worked with a clown as his
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Speaker 1: coach last year. Okay, it was. It was a clown
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Speaker 1: show all the way around. Give him, Give him at
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Speaker 1: least another five game, Okay. If in five games from now,
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Speaker 1: if he's making the same mistakes, then we'll start having
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Speaker 1: the conversation. I actually I disagree with you, Pete. Like
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Speaker 1: for me, I'm waiting for this entire year. No, I
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Speaker 1: think he is that talented, I think he cares that much.
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Speaker 1: I think he's that competitive, and I just think he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be well coached. And I know he's being well
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Speaker 1: coached right now. And so for me, it's painful. Sunday
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Speaker 1: was painful, and there's a lot of areas that need
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Speaker 1: to get cleaned up. And we can talk about the
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Speaker 1: offensive line they need to be better, and there's a
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Speaker 1: lot the defense needs to be better. But here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: If you think for a second, if you're out there
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Speaker 1: listening to us right now, are you wrote on Twitter
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Speaker 1: that that Trevor Lawrence is even even use the b
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Speaker 1: of a bus like even started, like even if it
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Speaker 1: started to come. You are dead wrong. And you have
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Speaker 1: to let this year play out and see and let's
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Speaker 1: make an evaluation at the end of the year. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: ten to xl AM and the Jags social media channels.
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Speaker 1: We continue with the best sound from press conferences and
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Speaker 1: interviews this week, starting with Trevor Lawrence on Wednesday. He
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Speaker 1: knows they need a winning result. You know, it's frustrating.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's good to compound all those from
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Speaker 1: the past. But also it is important to win, obviously,
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Speaker 1: that's why we're all here. Um. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: excitement in the city and on this team in the
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Speaker 1: locker room, and it comes to the point where, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we do. We obviously need to get a win and
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Speaker 1: this is a great place to start with a divisional game. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: like the past in the past, last week, had a
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Speaker 1: chance to win that and that's frustrating, but you gotta
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Speaker 1: move on and take the positives learn from the negatives. Um,
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Speaker 1: And we got a great opportunity this week. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we need to win. Uh, not because
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Speaker 1: of the losses we've had in the past, but just
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Speaker 1: because you know, we we started owing one last week
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Speaker 1: and then we got another opportunity this week in the
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Speaker 1: division to get a game, especially those two teams they
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Speaker 1: tied last week, so this will be huge force. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Coach Doug Peterson Wednesday, explaining how the quarterback continues to learn.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. Everything semi new and and
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Speaker 1: he's still learning, and this is the first time in
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Speaker 1: a while that you know, and and each week kind
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Speaker 1: of becomes a new week in the sense of he's
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Speaker 1: working with these guys day in and day out. Right
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Speaker 1: now we're down to the fifty three, we're down to
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Speaker 1: the forty eight, down to the eleven on offense or
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Speaker 1: so and two on offense, and these are now the
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Speaker 1: guys that we're working with, right so we just got
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Speaker 1: to make sure that we're all on the same page.
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Speaker 1: Keep working with um, you know, the skill guys, the backs,
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Speaker 1: tight ends, and continue to push through. But you know,
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Speaker 1: he trusts us as coaches are gonna put him in
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Speaker 1: in great positions and then he ultimately, you know, bottom
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Speaker 1: line has to go before centador Luke Fortner made his
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Speaker 1: NFL debut last week, and he told me in the
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Speaker 1: locker room about the difference in speed, a whole different
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Speaker 1: level play even from preseason. And you know, obviously especially
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Speaker 1: from college, and I felt like the coaches and the
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Speaker 1: fellow veterans, you know, they made sure I was prepared
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Speaker 1: and I mean the right headspace going out there, but
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Speaker 1: obviously step up. I think it's the mental and just
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Speaker 1: combining the mental and physical and trying to get them
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Speaker 1: in sync. I think individually I'm okay on both parts,
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Speaker 1: but kind of mentioning the two and matching up the
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Speaker 1: physicality with the mental parson of it is is where
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Speaker 1: I'm working on the best right now. Moving along now
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Speaker 1: to wide receiver Christian Kirk. He had the third best
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Speaker 1: yardage day of his career and his Jaguars debut, but
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Speaker 1: he knows the team can learn how to finish. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen overnight for sure. Um, you know, I know
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Speaker 1: there's been plenty of teams that you know, people have
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Speaker 1: seen that you know, came from an organization that you
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Speaker 1: know went through the same type of development as well.
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Speaker 1: So this stuff is gonna take time. But like I said,
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Speaker 1: good teams finish, and uh, you know, we definitely have
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Speaker 1: some work to do to be a good team, and
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Speaker 1: we gotta learn how to finish football games because you know,
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Speaker 1: Colts Jaguars matchup. On Jack's Drivetime Wednesday, it was ESPN
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Speaker 1: NFL reporter Stephen Holder joining Ashman Sullivan, John Osier, and
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton to talk through this Indianapolis Colts team. Take
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Speaker 1: us through what happened week one. The Colts tie against
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texas. I want to know what the biggest
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Speaker 1: surprise maybe was in that game. Well, it was surprising
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Speaker 1: apparently two players, some of whom did not realize that
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Speaker 1: you could tie in the NFL. So that was interesting
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Speaker 1: in the locker room, actually explaining the overtime process to
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Speaker 1: some of them. So anyway, that was an interesting diversion.
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Speaker 1: But I think really there wasn't a ton of surprise
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Speaker 1: for me, except I thought in many ways the Colts
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Speaker 1: outplayed the Texans. They just they didn't do the things
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Speaker 1: that it takes to actually put the finishing touches on
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Speaker 1: a wind. They moved the ball up and down the field. Well,
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Speaker 1: over five yards of offense. But if you don't stick
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Speaker 1: it in the end zone at the end of those drives,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't quite matter how many yards you get. So
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Speaker 1: I think in many ways we saw what we expected
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Speaker 1: from the Colts strong running game. Jonathan Taylor over a
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Speaker 1: hundred sixty yards, Matt Ryan I thought, really efficient in
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Speaker 1: many ways, except with some key mistakes, but overall, definitely
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Speaker 1: an upgrade at quarterback. But they just didn't get the
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Speaker 1: job done and very critical moments. Stephen Um, I'm curious
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Speaker 1: U Jonathan Taylor. There were stories last week about uh,
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Speaker 1: and I know you guys have talked to Frank right
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Speaker 1: about managing carries, and yet it's gonna be hard to
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Speaker 1: manage carries with this guy because he's so good. Uh,
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Speaker 1: how do the Colts balance that when they're really, if
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Speaker 1: their best when he's running the football. Well, you saw
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Speaker 1: a great example of the difficulty of that on Sunday
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Speaker 1: because there were some instances in the first half of
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Speaker 1: that game where Johthan Taylor was one step away from
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Speaker 1: going to the house like multiple times, and you can
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Speaker 1: see it, and you just kind of had this feeling like,
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Speaker 1: all right, the next one might be the one and
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Speaker 1: I can imagine that's very, very tempting. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they set out to have him run the ball, I
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Speaker 1: believe thirty one times. I don't think that was their
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Speaker 1: game plan necessarily, But you know, the game goes the
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Speaker 1: way the game goes, and well, a couple of things happened.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there were some instances where, uh, they were
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Speaker 1: they were having some some difficulties moving the ball through
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Speaker 1: the air, and they were having some efficiency on the ground,
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Speaker 1: so they did that and they just went with the
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Speaker 1: hot hand. And I think when the game is tight
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Speaker 1: and close like that, you kind of have to throw
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Speaker 1: your plans out the window. So if the goal was
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Speaker 1: to preserve him going into the game, then on they
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Speaker 1: got into the game and they saw that that was
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Speaker 1: their their best way of moving the football, then you
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Speaker 1: have to just basically throughout the plans. I think that's
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Speaker 1: what they did, and they said that they would do
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Speaker 1: that when when called upon, and I think that was
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Speaker 1: an instance where it was that's what it was gonna take.
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Speaker 1: But yes, over the course of the season, they do
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Speaker 1: want to watch his touches. You don't want your running
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Speaker 1: back well over three touches or excuse me, three hundred
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Speaker 1: carries per season and he exceeded that last year. And Steven,
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Speaker 1: as we get ready for this game Sunday in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: we have to talk about this streak now that as
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Speaker 1: many years running of the Jaguars beating the Colts in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: forcing them out of the playoffs last season in the
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Speaker 1: last regular season game. We all say, on both sides, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's a new team. They don't think about that. But
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Speaker 1: how much is that on the Colts mine this week? Well,
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Speaker 1: it's probably on their minds because they're gonna hear about it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. They are gonna be inundated
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Speaker 1: with questions about it, with stories, with talk on the radio.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, they can't escape. They know what happened,
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Speaker 1: and there's that was a very seismic I think shift
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Speaker 1: in this organization. You know what happened in Jacksonville in January,
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Speaker 1: and there's no way, there's no other way to look
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Speaker 1: at it. I think a lot of it prompted, certainly
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Speaker 1: some changes, and it prompted more than change. It prompted
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Speaker 1: I think um and an attitude and a focus on
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Speaker 1: this team that they have to take a step and
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Speaker 1: that that's not the kind of game that a serious
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Speaker 1: football team, that one that is that is serious about
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Speaker 1: about doing something in the postseason. That's not a game
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Speaker 1: you can lose to the team with at the time
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Speaker 1: the worst record in the NFL, with everything on the line,
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Speaker 1: and you certainly on paper have I have a considerable
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Speaker 1: amount of talent more than the other team. There's no excuse,
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Speaker 1: and you just can't come back from that by just
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Speaker 1: saying it's just another game. That's just not gonna be acceptable.
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Speaker 1: And so no one from the owner on down has
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Speaker 1: tried to spin it as just another game, because it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: And I think that the Colts understand that, and I
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Speaker 1: really think that adds a layer of pressure for this
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Speaker 1: game on Sunday. I don't know how they'll respond to that,
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Speaker 1: but no one can tell me and have me believe
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Speaker 1: that there's not a considerable amount of pressure on on
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Speaker 1: the Colts on Sunday. Jack's Drivetime here is Monday, Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: social media channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Also this week
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com, Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: Bucky Oshan and I talked through how Jaguars head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson sets the tone of no panic for the
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Speaker 1: Jags after one week just coming out of locker room, John,
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Speaker 1: you were in there with me and just talking to
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Speaker 1: some of the guys today. There there have been instances
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Speaker 1: in this place in the last decade where you go
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Speaker 1: in the Wednesday after a week one or early season
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Speaker 1: loss you shouldn't have lost, and there's a little panic
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Speaker 1: that sets in. There's a little bit of that. I
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Speaker 1: didn't sense much of that, if any of that today
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Speaker 1: from this team. Yeah, I thought, you know, and again,
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Speaker 1: we we've all lingered a little longer on that first
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Speaker 1: loss than usual, and I was sort of trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out why. And I think a big reason is
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Speaker 1: it feels different because they feel like they let one
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Speaker 1: get away. Uh. You know, in the past, there was
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Speaker 1: an under current when you talk to the players and
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Speaker 1: of if they got close in a game, they got
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Speaker 1: close and they maybe missed their one chance to win
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Speaker 1: that month. I mean, and they never said it, but
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Speaker 1: that's how it felt. This doesn't feel that way. This
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Speaker 1: feels like a decent team that let one get away,
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Speaker 1: and they know in the NFL. You can't do that.
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Speaker 1: It keep going back. It felt more normal. I know, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, It's look ahead Wednesday. Time to move on.
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Speaker 1: But I think maybe that's why the sting of that one,
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Speaker 1: it has sort of lingered a little bit. Bucky. Yeah, Now,
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Speaker 1: I think they knew that they won't get away. Um.
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Speaker 1: I felt like they were in control of the game
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. To let the ball flower over
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Speaker 1: the head, gave her some plays, And I think it's
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Speaker 1: it's one of those things where the team has to
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Speaker 1: kind of learn how to win, how to finish these
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Speaker 1: games off. I think the great thing about Doug and
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Speaker 1: his personality is he's just so even killed and cool
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Speaker 1: about it all, and I think he understands that this
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Speaker 1: is a process that you have to kind of go
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Speaker 1: through some of these tough losses to eventually get to
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Speaker 1: the other side. And at some point this team is
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Speaker 1: gonna turn the corner. The team is too talented, the
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Speaker 1: team is too well connected for it not to happen.
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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when does it all come together.
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Speaker 1: And so they're close and we're just kind of see
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Speaker 1: if they can start putting it together this week Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and the offense had some early red zone opportunities
17:47
Speaker 1: last week. They let a lot of those slip away.
17:49
Speaker 1: They came away with only a field goal in the
17:51
Speaker 1: first half and three red zone possessions and struggled to
17:55
Speaker 1: find those points. They got them back later in the
17:57
Speaker 1: game and of course rally to to have the lead
18:00
Speaker 1: and Bucky I think we're talking about it in the
18:02
Speaker 1: postgame radio on Sunday night. You know there were guys open.
18:05
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Travis c t n Is in the
18:07
Speaker 1: end zone open and one of those situations, but throughout
18:10
Speaker 1: the game that was a good sign for this offense.
18:13
Speaker 1: So you had wide receivers that were opening this offense. Yeah, uh,
18:16
Speaker 1: I think that was big. I think it was big
18:18
Speaker 1: that you had plenty of playmakers touched the ball. You
18:22
Speaker 1: had Christian Kirk have over a hunting yards. Uh. You
18:24
Speaker 1: saw Marvin Jones, D Jones, all those guys have opportunities
18:28
Speaker 1: to make plays and they made them. The big thing
18:31
Speaker 1: is understanding how things change down in the red zone.
18:34
Speaker 1: I think really it's for Trevor more than anybody else
18:37
Speaker 1: in the red zone, tighter space with things happen quicker,
18:40
Speaker 1: So you have to be a little more precise. Your
18:43
Speaker 1: anticipation has to be on point because the windows are
18:46
Speaker 1: just so tight. And so as he continues to see it,
18:49
Speaker 1: as he continues to have more of those opportunities in
18:51
Speaker 1: the red zone, you just kind of hope that it
18:53
Speaker 1: comes together because this offense has a lot of potential.
18:57
Speaker 1: I think we got a chance to see that. I
18:59
Speaker 1: guess without the it was a pretty solid defensive team.
19:02
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of about taking care of the
19:03
Speaker 1: little things and cleaning up those details. They do that,
19:06
Speaker 1: you'll see the team score a ton of points. Yeah,
19:09
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm unconcerned about the red zone
19:11
Speaker 1: stuff JP, but I'm getting questions this week. And I
19:15
Speaker 1: get it's the NFL, so you react to one thing
19:17
Speaker 1: and and it's but I'm getting questions like, um, Trevor
19:22
Speaker 1: Lawrence has major issues in the red zone, and it
19:25
Speaker 1: it makes it sound like it's been going on since
19:28
Speaker 1: like the sixties. And it's one game. He can't miss
19:34
Speaker 1: the throw to e t N. I get that, but
19:36
Speaker 1: he's not the first quarterback ever to miss that throw,
19:39
Speaker 1: even an easy one. Uh. I guess I've been doing
19:42
Speaker 1: this long enough. Let's at least see it twice before
19:46
Speaker 1: we call it a career defining trend. But I think
19:51
Speaker 1: it's where we are with it. I think we're way
19:52
Speaker 1: over the top in terms of, well, he's not good
19:55
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Well, nobody in this team is
19:58
Speaker 1: any good at anything last year, So let's not really
20:00
Speaker 1: say that this is a trend. Statistically he wasn't. But
20:03
Speaker 1: you're right, everything else was so askew you could you
20:06
Speaker 1: can't really, So you know, I'm not saying it's something,
20:11
Speaker 1: it's something to watch and it's something to improve. I
20:16
Speaker 1: don't think we know yet that he's just not good
20:20
Speaker 1: in that situation. I I just think you need to
20:23
Speaker 1: let it play out for at least a week, at
20:25
Speaker 1: least two weeks, couple weeks. So you know, maybe that's
20:29
Speaker 1: just me. I'm such a wide eyed optimists. Maybe I
20:35
Speaker 1: just think it's going to get better. Huddle Up with
20:37
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks runs Wednesdays at four o'clock on the Jags
20:40
Speaker 1: social media channels and Jaguars dot Com, and finally this
20:43
Speaker 1: week of preview of an interview that will run in
20:45
Speaker 1: full on the Official Jaguars podcast network Saturday, with a
20:49
Speaker 1: portion Sunday on Countdown to kickoff on the Jaguars Radio Network,
20:54
Speaker 1: it's CBS Sports play by play announcer Tom McCarthy on
20:57
Speaker 1: what Peterson brings to the organization and much more. We
21:00
Speaker 1: were in Houston last week for the Colts and the Texans,
21:03
Speaker 1: and we were talking about Lovey Smith taking over for
21:05
Speaker 1: the for the Texans. And I don't know if this
21:09
Speaker 1: is the right term that I I should use, but
21:11
Speaker 1: I've used it before with baseball. There's an adult kind
21:15
Speaker 1: of in the room now and the stability that that brings,
21:19
Speaker 1: just the ease that that brings is so important, and
21:23
Speaker 1: I think you're probably seeing a little of that right now.
21:26
Speaker 1: I know it was disappointing not getting the first weekend win,
21:30
Speaker 1: but I think that the results will follow the foundation
21:34
Speaker 1: that he's building. And I know Jacksonville fans have heard
21:36
Speaker 1: that before. Um they heard it so long with Gus
21:39
Speaker 1: Bradley and it was almost there, Like it was almost there.
21:42
Speaker 1: And I just think that you're gonna find a little
21:46
Speaker 1: bit more of a smooth function with Doug. And I think,
21:50
Speaker 1: like you said, the relationship part of this is really
21:53
Speaker 1: important in sports, and I think he's got that down Tony.
21:56
Speaker 1: The offensive side of things sees the play caller obviously
21:59
Speaker 1: on the sideline press Taylor's up in the booth. But
22:02
Speaker 1: the way they attacked the game, think about it statistically,
22:08
Speaker 1: in some instances it's a gut decision for Doug, but
22:10
Speaker 1: he'll go for it a lot. And he said earlier
22:13
Speaker 1: this week his his philosophy mainly is throw to score
22:17
Speaker 1: and run to win. And you know, there were some
22:21
Speaker 1: questions around in the twenty yard line at the at
22:23
Speaker 1: the red zone. They got away from the run a
22:25
Speaker 1: little bit last week, but there were some plays open.
22:27
Speaker 1: It might feel a little different offensively around here, just
22:30
Speaker 1: the way they approached the game. Yeah, and I think
22:32
Speaker 1: that the past that that that Trevor missed with e
22:35
Speaker 1: t N. I mean, I think that's an indication of
22:37
Speaker 1: what's there if you pass, and you know he terms
22:40
Speaker 1: just gotta hit, he just gotta hit that pass. I mean,
22:42
Speaker 1: he's got a gifted athlete who he knows very well.
22:45
Speaker 1: But I do think that you're going to see I
22:48
Speaker 1: think you canna see a comfort level two with with
22:51
Speaker 1: with Lawrence that that he'll that he didn't have last
22:54
Speaker 1: year quite frankly, because you do have a former quarterback
22:58
Speaker 1: as your head coach who knows how to handle quarterbacks.
23:03
Speaker 1: And I think that's going to really help. You know,
23:06
Speaker 1: I got the sense last week watching the game back
23:09
Speaker 1: that that e t n is he's gonna be. He's
23:12
Speaker 1: gonna be involved big time in this offense. And I
23:14
Speaker 1: think they'd like to involve him even more. So that's
23:17
Speaker 1: pretty cool if he could, if he can evolve into
23:19
Speaker 1: the back that they thought he was when they picked
23:21
Speaker 1: them a good different style backs. He's the guy that
23:23
Speaker 1: can go outside and play. And then you got James
23:25
Speaker 1: Robinson if you need four yards and he's probably gonna
23:28
Speaker 1: get four yards. That's this is what he does. And
23:29
Speaker 1: then veteran receivers that helps a young quarterback. To all
23:33
Speaker 1: these guys, at least the starters are on their second
23:35
Speaker 1: at least their second contract in the NFL. Not that
23:38
Speaker 1: that really matters, but experience is a big thing for
23:40
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. Those guys will be where they need
23:42
Speaker 1: to be. I gotta tell you that when when they
23:44
Speaker 1: signed Christian Kirk, I thought this was that was a
23:46
Speaker 1: huge pickup for them, um, and I think you saw
23:49
Speaker 1: that in Game one. I think that he can really
23:51
Speaker 1: develop into you know, not that Marvin's not, but Marvin's
23:57
Speaker 1: a little older, so Kirk can be able to mold
23:59
Speaker 1: himself too. That go to wide receiver then, I think
24:02
Speaker 1: he really wanted to be consistently in Arizona, but you know,
24:07
Speaker 1: they just there was not always enough room in the
24:10
Speaker 1: in the wide receiver room. So I like him a lot.
24:13
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see his focal point be even
24:16
Speaker 1: you know, spotlighted more. The Colts have that salty veteran
24:19
Speaker 1: quarterback now they've been they've been kind of playing that
24:22
Speaker 1: game the last few years. Obviously Philip Papers Carson Wentz
24:25
Speaker 1: wasn't the answer, and is Matt Ryan the answer for them?
24:29
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of other pieces on that team.
24:31
Speaker 1: They feel like they're kind of knocking on the door.
24:33
Speaker 1: Is this the one that gets them over the top. Well,
24:36
Speaker 1: it's funny, um. I mean, they should have scored forty
24:38
Speaker 1: points the other day against the Texas. They really should have.
24:40
Speaker 1: I mean they had a drop in the end zone.
24:42
Speaker 1: You know, they had a fourth down inside the five.
24:44
Speaker 1: They decided to go for it and it was snuffed out.
24:47
Speaker 1: He looked, he looked really good. He it looked like
24:49
Speaker 1: he was thirty seven years old. It's funny JP when
24:53
Speaker 1: he walks into a room. I hadn't seen him in
24:55
Speaker 1: about ten years in person, and he's a Philly guy,
24:57
Speaker 1: so I saw him often in back when he was young.
25:00
Speaker 1: He looks like a movie star like he is. He
25:03
Speaker 1: looks like Brady Like. He's tall and he's trim, and
25:05
Speaker 1: he's in great shape. I thought he looked really good.
25:08
Speaker 1: He through through three or fifty two yards. The rub
25:11
Speaker 1: is they don't want to run Jonathan tail Or thirty
25:14
Speaker 1: one times, but they needed to run Jonathan tail Or
25:16
Speaker 1: thirty one times. You guys are gonna have to stop
25:18
Speaker 1: the run. I mean, that's the biggest thing that Jaguars
25:20
Speaker 1: are gonna have to stop the run and make them
25:21
Speaker 1: a one dimensional team, and that's really hard to do
25:24
Speaker 1: against the cults. Also a preview of this week's visit
25:27
Speaker 1: with Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. The
25:29
Speaker 1: full version comes up this weekend on the Official Jaguars
25:33
Speaker 1: Podcast network, talking this week about the red zone issues
25:37
Speaker 1: in Week one for the Jaguars and much more. Yeah,
25:39
Speaker 1: you definitely want to close those out, you know, take
25:42
Speaker 1: advantage of those opportunities. You know they were there, you
25:45
Speaker 1: know they came out driving the ball. Well, got down there.
25:49
Speaker 1: I think it was third and fourteen from like the
25:54
Speaker 1: fourteen or something like that, or fifteen or something. You know,
25:57
Speaker 1: those eyes have converted are extremely low. You know, they
26:00
Speaker 1: do have to finish out JP. You know that along
26:03
Speaker 1: with early tackling woes, you know, because the commanders they
26:07
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything extremely sexy. You know, they were just
26:10
Speaker 1: taking advantage of what the defense was giving them, which
26:13
Speaker 1: was soft coverage and miss tackles. Early on in the
26:16
Speaker 1: second half, they buckled that up. You know, they got
26:19
Speaker 1: better and I think they ended up going to for
26:21
Speaker 1: two in the red zone right in the in the
26:23
Speaker 1: second half. Uh, to finish two five. Just a few things,
26:28
Speaker 1: being better in the red zone, tackling early so the
26:32
Speaker 1: other team can't build up their confidence, and then uh,
26:35
Speaker 1: third down defense getting the other team off the field,
26:38
Speaker 1: you know, giving your offense the opportunity to you know,
26:42
Speaker 1: execute and capitalize when they are you know, out there.
26:46
Speaker 1: So some things that clean up and hopefully today as
26:49
Speaker 1: the day they do that. Fred Taylor with us, let's
26:52
Speaker 1: flip it the defense. Now. Last season, Fred, the Jaguars
26:56
Speaker 1: had nine takeaways all year long. Awful they that's awful, right,
27:01
Speaker 1: They had three in Week one. That's a good step
27:03
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Impact players making big time plays.
27:08
Speaker 1: The most spectacular of those, though, was the Trayvon Walker
27:12
Speaker 1: interception where he comes off and jumps in front of
27:14
Speaker 1: the screen and stiff arms a guy and for the
27:18
Speaker 1: quarterback cutting him and tackle and he's in for the
27:21
Speaker 1: end into the end zone for a touchdown. It's a
27:24
Speaker 1: great It's a good beginning for him. What can he
27:27
Speaker 1: do more in this defense? He's gonna be tested to
27:31
Speaker 1: to really see what he can do today. You know.
27:34
Speaker 1: A week ago, Yeah, they played a team that wasn't
27:38
Speaker 1: as dynamic as this coach team is gonna be because
27:42
Speaker 1: we know what the coaches want to do. You know,
27:44
Speaker 1: they want to come in and pound it and give
27:46
Speaker 1: the ball to Jonathan Taylor thirty one times again if
27:50
Speaker 1: they can afford that. You know, the good thing that
27:53
Speaker 1: I noticed from our overall defense is that they're pretty
27:57
Speaker 1: stout versus the run. You know, they look pretty good
28:00
Speaker 1: versus the run. What I said earlier about them coming
28:03
Speaker 1: up being better tacklers, not letting the ball carries carrier
28:07
Speaker 1: getting started, uh, is what they need to improve that.
28:10
Speaker 1: But across the front, they look pretty stout against the
28:13
Speaker 1: run and they're gonna need that today. And I think
28:16
Speaker 1: just overall, you know, rallying to the ball being you know, uh,
28:21
Speaker 1: turnover happy, hustling in those plays will create turnovers. And
28:25
Speaker 1: I really think that they have a great opportunity to
28:29
Speaker 1: go out there play some amazing defense, minimize Pittman. You know,
28:33
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the number one target for Matt Ryan
28:36
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Taylor. That's where it all starts. It's a
28:39
Speaker 1: different type of game playing this week, but I think
28:42
Speaker 1: they're capable of getting it done. I will go out
28:45
Speaker 1: on limb j P and I know we got more time,
28:47
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna guarantee this win. I just I know
28:50
Speaker 1: that in the past, I've you know, I'm not out
28:53
Speaker 1: there playing obviously, so my my word don't always mean
28:56
Speaker 1: a lot in the in my heart of hearts, you know,
29:00
Speaker 1: Looking at how the team looked a week ago, looking
29:02
Speaker 1: at how the Colts play versity the Texans, I do
29:06
Speaker 1: think we can stop the run. It's gonna be all
29:08
Speaker 1: day dog fight. I think we can start to stop
29:11
Speaker 1: the run. I've never really been overly impressed with Matt Ryan,
29:15
Speaker 1: and I think we can get after him as well.
29:17
Speaker 1: With the front. So with that, if we get opportunistic
29:21
Speaker 1: in a turnover category stop the run, we can win
29:25
Speaker 1: this game because our offense is going to score on
29:27
Speaker 1: their defense again. The exclusive extended interview with McCarthy and
29:31
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29:35
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29:39
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29:41
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