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Ep. 87: Jaguars Need Hot Start to Launch the Season & Predicting Monday’s Headlines · Jags A.M.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to jag Zam. I'm kind of Annie Stephens, Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: John Osier are with me. As it's game week, so
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Speaker 1: we've been focusing on the Miami Dolphins all week long
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Speaker 1: and that's what we'll talk about here on jags Am today,
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Speaker 1: starting off with the big thing, Number one, Off to
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Speaker 1: the races.
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Speaker 2: As we know, the.
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Speaker 1: Dolphins are a speedy, speedy team, and Doug Peterson talked
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Speaker 1: about that yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Speed speed, speed, you know, in a lot of misdirection,
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Speaker 3: a lot of motions and shifts. You know, obviously do
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Speaker 3: a great job with that in their run game as well,
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, and it kind of can cause
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Speaker 3: you to just distort your eyes a little bit, right
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Speaker 3: and and and get off your cues and and uh
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Speaker 3: that's or some of the big plays have come, you
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Speaker 3: know for them. And obviously you know, we know Tybreek
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Speaker 3: and Waddles and guys, I mean, they just love speed
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Speaker 3: and something that we've you know, we're gonna be able
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Speaker 3: to at least try to match otherwise, you know, be
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Speaker 3: in the right position.
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Speaker 1: Brian, we always talk about how speedy, how fast that
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Speaker 1: Miami team is. But Doug talked a little bit about
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Speaker 1: just making sure the team knows they can go out
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Speaker 1: there and play with them, not just thinking, oh, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna run by us no matter what.
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Speaker 2: You have to go in there with that mentality.
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Speaker 4: Well, look, if anybody's watched them and they've been on TV,
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Speaker 4: that this is a really good team. They've won more,
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Speaker 4: they've had more winning seasons in a row at four
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Speaker 4: in a row than they've had in twenty five or
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Speaker 4: thirty years. I mean, this is a really good team
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Speaker 4: with great speed. Just to kind of back that up,
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Speaker 4: you know, they do the the speed of a play,
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Speaker 4: how fast a player ran. Of the top ten in
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Speaker 4: the NFL last year, six were Miami Dolphins, and the
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Speaker 4: way that they move and the offense sets up and
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of window dressings, but it's not that
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Speaker 4: normal window dressing. It's so fast you have to take
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Speaker 4: it serious. That I think is gonna be the story
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Speaker 4: of this game. How quickly does Ryan Nielson's defense coalesce,
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Speaker 4: you know, get back to what they do and figure
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Speaker 4: it out, because Miami will confuse you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, left to their own devices, the Dolphins will run
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Speaker 5: by you. The thing is you can't leave their own devices,
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Speaker 5: which means to me Trayvon Walker, Josh Heinz Allen, Eric
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Speaker 5: Arms said, and Devon Hamilton and the keys of this game.
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Speaker 5: I don't think you can outrun the Dolphins. I do
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Speaker 5: believe you can beat them at the line of scrimmage
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Speaker 5: because the Jaguars are built to be any team at
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Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. It's a Jaguars strength. So how
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Speaker 5: do you combat speed?
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Speaker 2: Punch a baby, Punch them in the mouth. Absolutely big thing.
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Speaker 2: Number two are going to be playing her. The injury
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Speaker 2: reports came out yesterday. Fortunately for the Jaguars, only one.
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Speaker 1: Player on there, Daniel Thomas. He's day to day, but
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins listed thirteen players. Eleven of those are on defense,
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Speaker 1: one of which very familiar here, Jalen Ramsey, did not
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Speaker 1: participate in practice. He's been dealing with a hamstring injury
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Speaker 1: for the past couple of weeks. John, we talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about what the offense for the Jacks need to do,
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Speaker 1: but they have lost a lot of players on that
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Speaker 1: Dolphins defense to free agency and now they're playing hurt
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Speaker 1: as well. Is this an opportunity for the offense to
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Speaker 1: go out there and do something for the Jags?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think you like the Jaguars offense, after what
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Speaker 5: they've done and the way they've built with Brian Thomas
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Speaker 5: Junior or Gabe Davis Christian Kirk, you would like the
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Speaker 5: opponent us to be talking about the same thing each week,
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Speaker 5: which is what the Jaguars can do against any opponent.
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Speaker 5: A lot of the Dolphins injuries this week are veterans
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Speaker 5: rest I don't expect them to be as down as
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Speaker 5: maybe the injury report looks. Jalen Raimis is a great player.
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Speaker 5: If he plays, he can take away receiver. The magic
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Speaker 5: of this offense, supposedly is there's four or five different
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Speaker 5: receivers you can go to. I was asked a lot
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Speaker 5: this week, who do you think Jaleen will take away?
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Speaker 5: I don't care because if he takes away Christian Kirk
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Speaker 5: in this offense, there ought to be three other guys
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Speaker 5: who can.
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Speaker 2: Pick up the slack.
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Speaker 5: That's the way it's built, that's the way I ought
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Speaker 5: to play Sounder.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised.
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Speaker 4: I kind of thought you might make a back reference
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Speaker 4: the hamstring tied to the back and we try to
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Speaker 4: have a good job of holding on it.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I'd be stunned and listen. I don't
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Speaker 4: know because I don't follow the Dolphins close enough, but
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Speaker 4: if Jalen doesn't try to play on Sunday, I mean,
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Speaker 4: there's nobody that embraces the petty any better than Jalen Ramsey.
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Speaker 4: And despite the fact that he got traded where he
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Speaker 4: wanted to get traded, and the Super Bowl ring and
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Speaker 4: the money and now he's in Miami. I mean, if
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Speaker 4: somebody could stir it up this week, I'd love to
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Speaker 4: be in the Dolphins locker room today because today would
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Speaker 4: be the day where he'd be. He'd get all the
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Speaker 4: media around him and someone would ask one question and
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Speaker 4: then he'd just roll his eyes and take off after
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Speaker 4: them for not asking the question that he wanted them to.
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Speaker 4: Great player, but he's just one. He is just one.
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Speaker 4: Here's the other variable we don't know about this defense,
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Speaker 4: the health being won. Anthony Weaver's coming down from Baltimore.
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Speaker 4: He's a first time defensive coordinator bringing the new system
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Speaker 4: down here. They have some of the issues on their own,
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Speaker 4: so perhaps the Jaguars can take advantage of of miscommunication
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Speaker 4: and create some confusion of their.
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Speaker 1: Route their defense coordinators on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 1: It's important to note, our final big thing today is
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Speaker 1: gonna be.
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Speaker 2: Doug or Press.
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Speaker 1: Play calling still up in the air, at least Doug's
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Speaker 1: not sharing at this point. He talks about whether that
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Speaker 1: gives them any kind of edge going into the game
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Speaker 1: against Miami.
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Speaker 3: I think if you're just looking at the offense, I
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Speaker 3: mean and studying studying that, I mean, the coordinators are
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Speaker 3: looking at personnel, They're looking at you know, formations, motions, shifts,
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Speaker 3: just like just like we do offensively. And I don't
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Speaker 3: think it's really any not a whole lot of difference.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, pressing, I think alike, you know
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Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of times, and you know,
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Speaker 3: converse a lot of a lot of times during games.
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Speaker 3: And I just think that if you're if you're looking
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Speaker 3: at us, there's probably not a lot of a lot
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Speaker 3: of differences, Brian.
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Speaker 1: Just like the depth chart says, you know, maybe Chad
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Speaker 1: Muma or Devin Lloyd, it's gonna be Doug Peterson or
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor calling the plays on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Doug seems to think they call plays very similarly.
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Speaker 4: What do you think when it comes to that first
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Speaker 4: question I got at the Panavita rotary this morning. I
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Speaker 4: first question, and Doug has addressed it twice now this week. John,
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Speaker 4: I think this has been the biggest non story stories
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Speaker 4: since the middle of the last season when it became
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Speaker 4: an issue. And I get why it becomes an issue
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Speaker 4: because play calling is the low hanging fruit. It's the
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Speaker 4: first thing that you can point to. I've always believed
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Speaker 4: that a good play is the one that works in
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Speaker 4: a bad play is the one that doesn't. But the
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Speaker 4: truth of the matter is is that these two guys
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Speaker 4: are so in line. Press Taylor and Doug Peterson are
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Speaker 4: of the same mind. I don't think that Press would
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Speaker 4: call the play that Doug didn't want him to call,
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Speaker 4: and I think that they go back and forth all
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Speaker 4: week long putting the plan together. I think Doug is
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Speaker 4: prep I think Press is Doug's right hand, so to speak,
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Speaker 4: and he does what Doug wants him to do because
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Speaker 4: that's the way those two guys work together. I just
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Speaker 4: don't see it as being as big as story.
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Speaker 2: Stahn's favorite story.
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Speaker 5: It starts to talk about this, It's look, the offense
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Speaker 5: wasn't significantly different last year with Press calling plays the
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Speaker 5: entire game or when they split it in twenty two.
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Speaker 5: If you remember Press called plays in the second half
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Speaker 5: and twenty two, and that's when the offense lit it up.
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Speaker 5: In twenty two, when it did light it up, I
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Speaker 5: couldn't agree more with Brian. I think it's the biggest
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Speaker 5: non issue. I think people wanted to find an excuse
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Speaker 5: last year for why the offense wasn't working. They didn't
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Speaker 5: want to see that the offensive line wasn't playing very
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Speaker 5: well at times. So it's play calling, play calling, play calling.
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Speaker 5: I'm bored with it at this point. Whoever calls plays
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Speaker 5: calls plays. If Doug thought there was a big difference,
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Speaker 5: he'd make a change.
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Speaker 4: Well, listen, the players say the same thing. It doesn't
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Speaker 4: matter what play is called. They obviously have worked all
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Speaker 4: week on situations of when they're going to use different plays.
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Speaker 4: It's about the players going out and executing, and too
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Speaker 4: often last year on offense, they couldn't execute in the
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Speaker 4: run game enough to be able to bring out the
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Speaker 4: exotic plays that everyone wants to point to. So non story.
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Speaker 2: Story, non story story.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna talk about some actual storylines coming
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Speaker 1: up on JAGSAM as we look more into the Dolphins,
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Speaker 1: as we prepare for the season opener, Welcome back into Jagsam.
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Speaker 1: Did we get ready for facing off against the Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: We heard some from head coach McDaniels and he's been
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Speaker 1: obviously he's a very well researched guy. He's going to
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Speaker 1: look into every team that they're facing off against. But
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Speaker 1: I always find it interesting to kind of see how
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Speaker 1: the coach that we're facing breaks.
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Speaker 2: Down the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: So he talked a little bit about what he sees
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Speaker 1: from the Jaguars defense.
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Speaker 6: How they come off the ball, how they play with
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Speaker 6: consistent technique and fundamentals, and their relentless strain. I think
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Speaker 6: that that's pretty obvious from the minimal game tape that
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Speaker 6: we've watched. But that's something that's, you know, been a
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Speaker 6: paramount in coach Nielsen's kind of repertoire of defensive lines
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Speaker 6: and defensive fronts that he's coached in previous teams. So
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Speaker 6: very talented group that is playing hard and together. That's
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Speaker 6: what I see on.
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Speaker 2: Tape, so repertoire. I love a little references.
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Speaker 1: He's a renaissance guy, absolutely, Brian, when you hear that,
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Speaker 1: obviously we've heard that from Nielsen himself, but this will
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Speaker 1: be the first time we'll see in the game with
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've seen it though on the practice field, and
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Speaker 4: we saw it in the preseason games. The defensive line
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Speaker 4: is John alluded to during Big Things. It's the strength
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Speaker 4: of this team. There are so many guys that can
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Speaker 4: do so many things, and just the ability to mix
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Speaker 4: and match the size of Eric Armstead inside or move
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Speaker 4: him outside and bring in Trayvon Walker to put his
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Speaker 4: hand on the ground in a three technique on a
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Speaker 4: pass wrestling situation. There's so many different variables that Ryan
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Speaker 4: Nielson can unleash. And he's right. McDaniel's right. They play
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Speaker 4: with great intensity and great sense of purpose. I think
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a of fun to watch this group
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Speaker 4: on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. I had Eric Armstead on the ozone podcast this
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Speaker 5: week tease like that professional show business, and he said, look,
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Speaker 5: we believe, and I believe me and Eric that the
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Speaker 5: game the team should should go through the defensive line.
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Speaker 5: They should be able to dominate and be the identity
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Speaker 5: of the team. He said, that's a little egotistical, but
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Speaker 5: that's how we believe, and I think in this case
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Speaker 5: he's right. If you think about this defensive line to me,
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Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence has a chance to ascend to elite status
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Speaker 5: this year. Beyond that, the position group that can be
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Speaker 5: dominant and can be considered among the league's best. To
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Speaker 5: me is this defensive line, and no better time to
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Speaker 5: prove it. This defensive line has a chance to go
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Speaker 5: disrupt a great Miami offense. But it's a Miami offense
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Speaker 5: that has been prone to being disrupted by great defenses.
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Speaker 5: That's the match up the Jaguars need and must win.
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Speaker 4: And just to play off that for a second, I mean,
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Speaker 4: Eric Armstein was a part of a unit in San
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Speaker 4: Francisco that absolutely was the heartbeat of what they did.
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Speaker 4: You knew when you played San Francisco you were gonna
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Speaker 4: have hard time scoring points and that set the tempo
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Speaker 4: for every team that played the Niners.
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Speaker 5: And if this line isn't that, I think this team's
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Speaker 5: in trouble. I mean, I think there's many many issues,
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Speaker 5: not issues with storylines for the Jaguars. If the defensive
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Speaker 5: line is that, I think they're really good. If they're
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Speaker 5: not that, then I'm not sure how the stop people.
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Speaker 1: So when we've talked about having a big year Trayvon Walker,
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Speaker 1: we always like to kind of see what other coaches
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Speaker 1: think of him. Mike Tomlin, head coached the Steelers, called
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Speaker 1: him a game wrecker, and then Mike McDaniel talked about
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Speaker 1: some of Treymon's strengths as well.
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Speaker 6: Both on running pass not just some pass, but in
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Speaker 6: run you're scared of walk making a play at the
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Speaker 6: point of attack or from you know, maybe from the
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Speaker 6: backside of the play. I think his game is kind
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Speaker 6: of just little glimpses of evolution that you know is coming.
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Speaker 6: You can tell that they're preparing to put him in
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Speaker 6: in positions to make plays and to be a primary
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Speaker 6: area of focus. So that's gonna have to be something
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Speaker 6: that each one of our offensive players along the line
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Speaker 6: of scrimmage, including tight ends and receivers, We're gonna have
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Speaker 6: to be aware of his game and what it's gonna
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Speaker 6: take several people to slow him down, for sure.
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Speaker 1: John, You've long said Trayvon's work in the run games
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Speaker 1: probably one of his strongest attributes.
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Speaker 5: And well, I think he's dominant there without having I
12:38
Speaker 5: don't say work very hard, but you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 5: natural dominant Naturally to me, Trayvon Walker's storyline is this
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Speaker 5: number one overall picking the draft. Everybody outside football is
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Speaker 5: going to pick what he doesn't do. Apart every coach
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Speaker 5: that watches him goes, I'd like to have one of those. Yeah, yeah, oh.
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Speaker 2: Boy, I'd like to have.
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Speaker 5: And so I think that's probably what for a couple
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Speaker 5: of years has been the case. Maybe it'll continue to
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Speaker 5: be the case. I don't know if he would be
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Speaker 5: a twenty SAT guy, but I know that every time
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Speaker 5: football people start watching him, boy I liked to that
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Speaker 5: would help if we had one of those.
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Speaker 4: I was walking through Detroit during the draft and a
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Speaker 4: Lions fan grabbed me and said, hey, thanks for taking
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Speaker 4: Trayvon Walker. Gave us Aiden Hutchinson. Great. Aiden Hutchison is
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Speaker 4: a terrific pass rusher, and it's been a really good
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Speaker 4: football player. I just I think right now we're about
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Speaker 4: to see the reason why Trayvon Walker was the number
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Speaker 4: one overall pick. Mike McDaniel eluded it. If you go
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Speaker 4: back and you listen to what he said, right, they
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Speaker 4: all knew this was coming, They all knew what he
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Speaker 4: was capable of. Nobody was surprised that Trayvon Walker was
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Speaker 4: selected as the number one overall pick No. One because
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Speaker 4: they understood his size, his length, his speed, his determination,
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Speaker 4: his mentality. It is all coming to fruition right now.
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Speaker 4: And I think this year people will say, oh, I
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Speaker 4: get it now. They were disappointed because he only had
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Speaker 4: three sacks as a rookie and as a pass rusher,
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Speaker 4: but it was never just about his rookie year. It
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Speaker 4: was about the kind of football player that he will
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Speaker 4: be in year three, four, five and on into when
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Speaker 4: they finally pay him. He's tremendous and if you didn't
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Speaker 4: see it last year, buckle up, you're gonna see.
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Speaker 5: It on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Should be good pairing up with Josh Heinzellen as well,
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Speaker 1: So that's gonna be dangerous our finals. Soundbike from Mike.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Mike McDaniel. He talked a little bit about
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Junior. Obviously that was our first round draft pick,
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Speaker 1: but the Dolphins were scouting him heavily, so McDaniel says,
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Speaker 1: they're very familiar with his game.
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Speaker 6: Super talented player that has a unique combination of being
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Speaker 6: able to be down the field, you know, third level
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Speaker 6: receiver that can track and make plays down the field,
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Speaker 6: while also having a route running skills that to to
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Speaker 6: do your underneath and intermediate routes. You see a very
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Speaker 6: talented individual that can take his game as far as
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Speaker 6: he wants to take it. You know, I think it's
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Speaker 6: a adding to the pluthora of LSU Tigers out there
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Speaker 6: in the league. He's he's a very talented individual that
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Speaker 6: we won't We will be well aware of when he's
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Speaker 6: out there on the field. It won't be a surprise
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Speaker 6: because we we did a lot of work on him
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Speaker 6: coming out.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas has impressed us so far in the limited
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Speaker 1: amount that we've seen him.
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Speaker 2: Excited to see him in Game one.
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Speaker 4: I am, and I'll back opa right here. I mean,
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Speaker 4: this was not a player that I wanted the Daguars
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Speaker 4: to take. I wanted them to take a big guy.
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Speaker 4: I wanted them to fortify the offensive line in a
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Speaker 4: draft that was deep. But it appears I'm wrong on
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Speaker 4: that because having watched him run right just to see
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Speaker 4: this big, long frame run down the field and make
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Speaker 4: plays during the during the preseason games, I realized what
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Speaker 4: they saw in him, the ability he has to back
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Speaker 4: a defense off the line of scrimmage. How that will
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Speaker 4: open other things up. I'm very excited to watch him play.
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Speaker 4: They had a plan for him when they drafted him,
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Speaker 4: and we're going to see the first glimpses of it
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Speaker 4: on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. I think it was Dunio Jeremiah who said during
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Speaker 5: the pre draft stuff that outside that top three, which
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Speaker 5: in the draft sometimes you get, you know, preconceived notions,
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Speaker 5: and there are gonna be three guys that are gonna
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Speaker 5: be in the top ten. But outside of that group,
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Speaker 5: this was the guy who had a chance to be
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Speaker 5: the number one wide receiver. I'm a broken record on this.
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Speaker 5: I usually expect nothing out of rookies, but during training
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Speaker 5: camp practices, in preseason practice, preseason games, he started doing
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Speaker 5: stuff that looked more like veteran stuff than a rookie.
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Speaker 5: And I don't know if that means he's going to
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Speaker 5: be consistent at it all the time in every game
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Speaker 5: the way a veteran needs to be. But I think
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Speaker 5: he's gonna show, and I think he's gonna map and
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Speaker 5: be a difference maker more than a lot of rookies
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Speaker 5: on So I think he adds to what is now
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Speaker 5: a really strong five or six headed skill group. I
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Speaker 5: think he may make this the deepest skill group maybe
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Speaker 5: it's ever had. I mean, I can't compare wide receiver
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Speaker 5: Atannants to Jimmy and Keene because that's still the elite.
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Speaker 5: But in terms of going five or six guys who
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Speaker 5: can make a difference, I don't know they've had one
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Speaker 5: like this.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 4: I think we've said this. He has the potential. He's
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Speaker 4: that big receiver who can run, and they haven't. They've
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Speaker 4: had big receivers and they've had guys who could run
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Speaker 4: that they haven't had the combination since Jimmy, right, since
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Speaker 4: eighty two, Yeah, I mean he left siwo thousand and five,
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Speaker 4: so it's been a long time. He looks like he's
17:41
Speaker 4: got that potential to be that big guy who can
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Speaker 4: run that this team has looked for through the years.
17:46
Speaker 4: They've drafted a lot of receivers but haven't been able
17:48
Speaker 4: to find it. It's high praise. He hasn't heard it yet,
17:51
Speaker 4: but it looks like he could.
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Speaker 1: Looks good and a lot of potential of what he
17:55
Speaker 1: can become as well. It's very exciting. Say with us
17:57
Speaker 1: here on JAG's.
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Speaker 2: Sam will go over our game predictions to the break.
18:03
Speaker 2: We like have a drink by the beach. I love it.
18:06
Speaker 2: We're gonna do our best at predicting the future.
18:08
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what we're expecting to see
18:10
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but instead of just giving you a score predictions,
18:12
Speaker 1: we're going to try to predict what we think the headlines.
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Speaker 2: Will be on Monday morning after the game.
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Speaker 1: So, Brian, when you read about the game on Monday,
18:19
Speaker 1: what are you gonna hear?
18:20
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know all all I heard yesterday and talking
18:22
Speaker 4: to coaches and players was about the Steve and misdirection right,
18:25
Speaker 4: and it reminded me of one of my favorite lines
18:27
Speaker 4: from the movie Top Gun.
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Speaker 5: Where'd he go?
18:29
Speaker 2: Where did who go?
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Speaker 3: Right?
18:32
Speaker 4: It that's to me going to be the difference in
18:35
Speaker 4: the game.
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Speaker 2: Where'd he go?
18:38
Speaker 5: Right?
18:38
Speaker 4: Where did who go? And and how did that impact
18:41
Speaker 4: the overall play?
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Speaker 3: So?
18:43
Speaker 4: Who went? Where? Why?
18:44
Speaker 6: And how?
18:46
Speaker 4: If the Jaguars are going to win this ball game,
18:48
Speaker 4: they are going to have to be dialed in. And
18:50
Speaker 4: I tried, tried as it could, Darnell Savage, Tyson Campbell
18:54
Speaker 4: to get them to tell me about defending Tyreek Hill
18:57
Speaker 4: and Jalen Waddle and the speedy running back Eye Chain,
19:02
Speaker 4: and I couldn't get them off the mark. They were
19:04
Speaker 4: all about do our jobs, focus on our technique. They
19:08
Speaker 4: were clearly in the school of Nielsen, which is it
19:12
Speaker 4: doesn't matter them. What matters is us. So but I
19:15
Speaker 4: think the speed and the misdirection are the greatest asset
19:20
Speaker 4: that the Dolphins have, and not having seen this defense,
19:23
Speaker 4: John right, it's the liability that I perceive is will
19:27
Speaker 4: they be ready for that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the storyline of the game. And I went
19:31
Speaker 5: with speed killed. And once I said it, I realized, well,
19:35
Speaker 5: that can go either way. I mean, if the Dolphins
19:37
Speaker 5: are great, then speed killed. But what I think it's
19:40
Speaker 5: going to mean is that the speed is killed, was killed.
19:44
Speaker 5: Because as at the top of the show, my theme
19:46
Speaker 5: that I've been pounded on all week, and I'll continue
19:49
Speaker 5: the front four that I'm talking about, there's more than
19:52
Speaker 5: four that Hamilton, Heinz, Allen, Walker, and Armstead. They have
19:55
Speaker 5: to be the hammer they have to make. They have
19:58
Speaker 5: to get penetration and disruption. Where as Bucky Brooks said yesterday,
20:05
Speaker 5: where you bite the head of snake off and you
20:07
Speaker 5: get to out of it, you disrupt them. Think about
20:10
Speaker 5: the Super Bowls with the Giants be the Patriots, where
20:12
Speaker 5: the front four just disrupted everything and you realize that, oh,
20:17
Speaker 5: this great offense doesn't matter. If this is disrupted here,
20:21
Speaker 5: then it then nothing else functions in the NFL. To me,
20:25
Speaker 5: that's the Jaguars advantage in this game. Well, I shouldn't
20:28
Speaker 5: say that that needs to be the advantage if they're
20:31
Speaker 5: going to disrupt this offense.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you, John.
20:35
Speaker 1: I also am going to focus a bit on the
20:37
Speaker 1: other side of football for mine because we need to
20:39
Speaker 1: see a hot start out of this offense. So a
20:41
Speaker 1: hot start down south is the way that this is
20:43
Speaker 1: going to get done.
20:44
Speaker 2: Yeah yah, yeah, yeah, I went to journalism school too.
20:48
Speaker 1: If you can slow down Miami's offense as much as
20:54
Speaker 1: you can, but you are going to have to outscore them.
20:56
Speaker 1: This is never going to be you know, ten to
20:58
Speaker 1: nothing games. They're gonna have to find the end zone
21:01
Speaker 1: early and often. I think Trevor Lawrence is very capable
21:04
Speaker 1: of doing that. And I think one thing we haven't
21:05
Speaker 1: mentioned a ton about Miami Dolphins lost a bunch of
21:08
Speaker 1: players on defense, specifically their line, one of those big
21:10
Speaker 1: players being Christian Wilkins.
21:11
Speaker 2: He's not there anymore.
21:12
Speaker 1: So if you can go in there establish the run
21:14
Speaker 1: with Travis etn open things up for Trevor so he
21:16
Speaker 1: can throw it around a little bit. I think they
21:18
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to outscore them, keep it close in
21:21
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter.
21:22
Speaker 2: And do what you got to do.
21:23
Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: Just an underlying theme, and it's one that I'm focused on,
21:26
Speaker 4: is this is a big game because this is an
21:29
Speaker 4: AFC playoff team from a year ago. They've had four
21:32
Speaker 4: straight winning seasons. They're at the top of the charts offensively,
21:37
Speaker 4: all the numbers right at the bottom of the chart
21:39
Speaker 4: in terms of sacks allowed, right, So we talked about
21:41
Speaker 4: them being disruptive. They only allowed thirty one sacks last year.
21:44
Speaker 4: This is a really, really good team. So this is
21:46
Speaker 4: a big game. Well, we know that Jaguars did not
21:48
Speaker 4: play very well in the big games on their schedule
21:51
Speaker 4: last year Kansas City, Buffalo, the Niners, the Bengals, and
21:54
Speaker 4: the Ravens. So I'm looking at this game as let's
21:58
Speaker 4: see Doug Peterson and Trent baal Key brought in coaches
22:01
Speaker 4: and players to change the trajectory, to change the dynamic
22:04
Speaker 4: in the locker room. Guys who were accomplished, who had
22:06
Speaker 4: been there and played in big games, coached in big games.
22:09
Speaker 4: I'm really eager to see if those things show up
22:13
Speaker 4: on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So many questions we're gonna find out soon, say with
22:17
Speaker 1: us on JAGXAM one more time as we go over
22:19
Speaker 1: what we've got coming up the rest of the week.
22:23
Speaker 2: The linebacker nex so Foya says, Chad mom or Devin
22:26
Speaker 2: Lloyd on the depth chart? Is there any clarity or
22:29
Speaker 2: is that situational based.
22:31
Speaker 3: Or usually situational? Yeah, situational based. Yeah, it's Doug Peterson
22:37
Speaker 3: or Press Taylor.
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Speaker 2: I know you'll have a quick John, so I'm sure
22:42
Speaker 2: you quit.
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Speaker 5: Yeh. And again, I think this is the one where
22:48
Speaker 5: everybody's all wound up over the play caller. And I
22:52
Speaker 5: think Doug, having been around this game for thirty years,
22:56
Speaker 5: is kind of amusing himself a little bit by not
23:00
Speaker 5: telling anybody what's going on.
23:01
Speaker 2: You have to have fun with it.
23:02
Speaker 5: He uh, And he walks off the podium and he
23:05
Speaker 5: talks to somebody who sends the door closed, and he goes.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you got got him. Yeah, we do know. Press
23:10
Speaker 1: Taylor will be on the sideline. So if you guys
23:11
Speaker 1: are that interested, you can just watch and try to
23:13
Speaker 1: figure it out yourself.
23:14
Speaker 4: I think everyone should remember that Andy Reid calls the
23:18
Speaker 4: plays in Kansas City, right I mean, he's still the
23:20
Speaker 4: head coach. He's got all, he's got all offensive coordinator.
23:23
Speaker 4: He doesn't tell you what's going on. You just know
23:27
Speaker 4: that he has a huge influence on every single play.
23:30
Speaker 4: And that is Doug's mentor. So Doug is always gonna
23:34
Speaker 4: have a strong influence. And I don't think he's ever
23:36
Speaker 4: gonna tell people. Press called the place today, I called
23:39
Speaker 4: the place today. I just think you understand his influence.
23:42
Speaker 2: It is all right.
23:43
Speaker 1: I guess that's our cue to get out of here.
23:44
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, enjoy the game. This weekend.
23:46
Speaker 2: NFL Football's back.
23:47
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday to talk about everything.