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Louis Riddick on Jaguars Back Against the Wall | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars and the Bills coming up on Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: Football are Rutledge on the sideline. Chris Fowler has the
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  Speaker 1: play by play with Dan Orlovsky and Lewis Riddick, who
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  Speaker 1: joins US now NFL college football analyst with ESPN since
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, former NFL safety and personnel man with Washington
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia. That's a long intro, but it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: talk with you and the Jags on Monday Night.
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  Speaker 2: And you're back on it too. It's good to see
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  Speaker 2: you lose. Yeah, thanks a lot. Yeah, we're looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to this game, man, We're really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people in both of these staffs.
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  Speaker 2: This will be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Jags off to an zero to two start, not something
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  Speaker 1: they were expecting around here in Doovole.
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  Speaker 3: But when you look at.
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  Speaker 1: The Jags through those two games, what's your greatest concern
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  Speaker 1: about this team?
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  Speaker 2: Lack of identity, lack of an ability to really be
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  Speaker 2: able to call on certain players or certain schemes and
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  Speaker 2: concepts that you know are got to have it type
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  Speaker 2: of players and or concepts, and that's very frustrating. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I understand we're still in the early part of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and they're just getting ready to complete
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  Speaker 2: Week three.
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  Speaker 3: But considering how long.
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  Speaker 2: That this coaching staff and this head coach in particular,
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  Speaker 2: and he's spoken to this already, has been with this
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in particular, that he felt that they would be
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  Speaker 2: further along at this point. They don't understand quite why
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  Speaker 2: they're not a little bit further along in terms of
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  Speaker 2: their consistency. And a lot of that has to do
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  Speaker 2: with the fact that usually that means that the coach
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  Speaker 2: doesn't quite know what he has yet and the players
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  Speaker 2: haven't really demonstrated that to him yet. And so look
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  Speaker 2: at a hell of a stage to try and find
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  Speaker 2: that out on Monday night in Buffalo, which is one
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  Speaker 2: of the toughest places to play. I know I played
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  Speaker 2: up there a couple of times, and it is brutal
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not talking weather, I'm just talking an atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: It's just suffocating. But it's also, at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: maybe exactly what they need because their backs are against
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  Speaker 2: the wall. They don't want to go down. Oh three,
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  Speaker 2: Doug knows Sean. They've worked together. We were all in
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  Speaker 2: the same building at one time in Philly. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot at stake and a lot of emotion involved. And
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  Speaker 2: that's probably what you want to see as a Jaguars fan.
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  Speaker 2: You want to see some emotion out of this team,
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  Speaker 2: and you really want to see some emotion out of
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  Speaker 2: number sixteen. You want to see him go, I'm the
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  Speaker 2: guy they're paying me like the guy. I don't need
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  Speaker 2: to fly under the radar. I need to fly above
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  Speaker 2: the radar now. I need to go ahead and put
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  Speaker 2: myself in harm's way and be the people that everyone
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  Speaker 2: focuses in on because they're paying me to be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see we.
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  Speaker 1: Were really the last week after the game was the
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  Speaker 1: first time we heard him publicly, you know, call out
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  Speaker 1: teammates and himself and the coaches. And it just didn't
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  Speaker 1: look right last week and he kind of had it
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  Speaker 1: up to hear for lack of a better term, And
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  Speaker 1: I guess the question is how does the team respond
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  Speaker 1: to that? And but you have to have some equity
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  Speaker 1: built up to get the team buy in too.
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  Speaker 3: Right, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I mean that's a great point, right So,
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  Speaker 2: and the equity can't be just the equity, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: in your bank account.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about what you're getting all the field success equity, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, yeah, exactly, And I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, for him, it has to go
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  Speaker 2: beyond that. And I think that's why maybe it feels
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  Speaker 2: a little awkward to see him do that right right
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  Speaker 2: now from the outside or from the inside, because people
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  Speaker 2: are gonna sit there and go, well, trev you've shown flashes.
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  Speaker 3: I know what they said about you the day you
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  Speaker 3: got drafted.
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  Speaker 2: I know how much Dabblo loves you and Clemson, but
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  Speaker 2: this ain't Clemson, and you know what, this isn't the draft,
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  Speaker 2: and we really don't care how much money you make.
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  Speaker 2: What we care about is whether or not you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: pick up third downs. You're gonna make those plays that
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  Speaker 2: are special, one of one plays like the guy who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be standing on the other sideline has been doing
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  Speaker 2: on a regular basis since he's gotten into the league.
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  Speaker 2: And this dude, and he's been doing it and he
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  Speaker 2: still gets killed with you know, stinging criticism.
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  Speaker 3: Going too many turnovers, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Overrated, all the nonsense that you hear said about Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna start coming Trevor's way in waves if he
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  Speaker 2: isn't able to build up that equity based on his
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  Speaker 2: performance on the field, and I think this is one
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  Speaker 2: of those This is one of those turning points types
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  Speaker 2: of games for him, and I don't want to make that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the big giant profamation of this is the
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  Speaker 2: fork in the row for Trevor Lawrence's career, But for
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  Speaker 2: this season, this is huge. This is huge because of
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to go down No.
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  Speaker 3: Three.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that means for your playoff chances. Two,
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  Speaker 2: you see how the other team in Houston is doing
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  Speaker 2: in the division right now, and how CJ. Strout is playing.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, if you're shot Khan, you're sitting there going
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  Speaker 2: I paid you to be a difference make So Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's more than him, but it starts with him.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick, ESPN NFL analysts on Monday Night Football, a
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  Speaker 1: little more on Josh Allen the Bills side of things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's right there at the top of his game,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess why. I mean, we know he can
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  Speaker 1: run the ball too. There's a lot of that. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He's eleven rushing touchdowns short of Fred Taylor. That tells
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  Speaker 1: you how many times he's run the ball as well,
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  Speaker 1: but it's what he does through the air and that
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  Speaker 1: arm strength and talent that comes with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's done a lot of that in the
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  Speaker 2: past because of out of necessity. I mean, so when
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  Speaker 2: Brian Daball was the coordinator, or you know, when Ken
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  Speaker 2: Dorsey was the coordinator, they wanted to be what Sean
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  Speaker 2: wanted them to be, which was a multi dimensional, balanced offense,
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  Speaker 2: but they just weren't because they weren't able to capture
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage on a regular basis. The backs
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  Speaker 2: just weren't. They just hadn't demonstrated that you could rely
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  Speaker 2: on them. The way in which the backs look like
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  Speaker 2: this year, they may be able to be relied upon,
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  Speaker 2: and the line of scrimmage is so much better. This
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  Speaker 2: starting group of five that they have right now is
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  Speaker 2: as tough and as nasty as any in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: So I think Josh may not. Josh is probably starting
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  Speaker 2: to feel like I don't need to do those kind
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  Speaker 2: of things. I can do them, but I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do them. One it's better for their overall overall
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  Speaker 2: offensive attack, and two it's gonna be better for his longevity,
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  Speaker 2: and three I think this is really, like I said
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning, this is what Shawn's been preaching to
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  Speaker 2: him anyway, this is how he's wanted them to be.
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  Speaker 2: He'll still be able to put on the cape when
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  Speaker 2: he needs to. He'll still be able to make the
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  Speaker 2: throws like he made the steff On last year that
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  Speaker 2: he dropped against Kansas City that would have won them
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  Speaker 2: the game. More than likely, he can do those kind
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  Speaker 2: of things that maybe only he a guy like Justin Field's,
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  Speaker 2: a guy like Anthony Richardson in terms of pure arm
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  Speaker 2: strength can do. But he can just kind of keep
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  Speaker 2: that holstered, and that's just going to make them all
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  Speaker 2: the more dangerous, man, it really is. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how long they can continue to play at such a
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  Speaker 2: high level on defense if they don't get their frontline
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  Speaker 2: players back. You give them credit for the way they've
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  Speaker 2: drafted and developed, because these kids are studs. The way
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  Speaker 2: that they're playing, the way guys like Baal in Spector
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  Speaker 2: and Dorian Went, and the way these guys are playing
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  Speaker 2: at linebacker and Christian you know, Benford and Cam Lewis
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  Speaker 2: and those guys are playing in the back end. Look
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  Speaker 2: tip your cap to Brandon being the GM, but you
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  Speaker 2: need your frontline guys back because the very definition of
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  Speaker 2: a back up is someone who can do it three
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  Speaker 2: to five games, hold down the fort and the team
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  Speaker 2: can continue to chug along. I don't know, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: found the next line of superstars for them, which if
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  Speaker 2: they have that, Brandon Bean needs to be GM of
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  Speaker 2: the Year, which he may be when this is all
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  Speaker 2: said and done. But that's the side of the ball
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  Speaker 2: that worries me. We'll see. It's an opportunity though, for
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  Speaker 2: Jacksonville to go ahead and say, hey, look, let us
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  Speaker 2: be the ones who kind of expose some of the
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  Speaker 2: holes that you have based on who you have available.
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  Speaker 2: It would do wonders for them and their confidence, especially
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  Speaker 2: doing it up there, and they need it bad.
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  Speaker 1: They need it to be able to do that exploit
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  Speaker 1: some of those things. At the back end of that
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  Speaker 1: defense got to be able to stop the pass rush too.
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  Speaker 1: And this is eight year left tackle Cam Robinson, tenth
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  Speaker 1: year center Mitch Morse who played there, the right guard
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  Speaker 1: is in his tenth year, and Sheriff and then Anton
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  Speaker 1: Harrison's the second year guy. How do they match up
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  Speaker 1: against this great pass rushing unit?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know the way you put it.
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  Speaker 2: Really it's gonna come down to this between Ezra, Mitch,
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  Speaker 2: and Brandon. That's where it starts. Those guys like you
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  Speaker 2: saw snaps last week where those three in particular, we're
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  Speaker 2: getting victimized. Look, look, I mean, Miles is Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna beat everybody. So you understand that it's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be just one guy. It's not gonna be just Cam,
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  Speaker 2: it's not gonna be just Antime by themselves. If you
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  Speaker 2: leave them by by themselves against him, then you're asking
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  Speaker 2: to get your ass kicked. To be a blunt about it,
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  Speaker 2: and you probably deserve it. But the interior three have
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  Speaker 2: to be the ones that really keep that pocket secure
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  Speaker 2: and allow Trevor to step up when he needs to
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  Speaker 2: or just sit there when he needs to and see
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  Speaker 2: the field clearly and distribute and develop some chemistry. If
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  Speaker 2: you see blowbys happen with them, if you're seeing Ed
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  Speaker 2: Oliver in in in Trevor's face mask play after play,
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  Speaker 2: it's not gonna it's not gonna work. And they're better
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  Speaker 2: than that. That group of three is better than what
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  Speaker 2: they've showed, and they're gonna have to play that way,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there's no question. I think if you
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  Speaker 2: ask Doug, where does it start on offense outside the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: I think capturing the line of scrimmage number one, getting
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  Speaker 2: some push in the run game is where it starts.
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  Speaker 2: But past protection, man, we have to be able to
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  Speaker 2: throw the football, and if we can't because two you three,
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  Speaker 2: in particular, allowing the pocket to get violated play after play,
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  Speaker 2: it ain't gonna work. So that's where that's where my
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  Speaker 2: eyes will be focused Monday.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a great matchup, great visit with you, Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time and have a great call on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, man, thanks for having me.