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Speaker 4: Shadrick with Jeff Logoman.
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Speaker 3: Jaguars coming off a win last week over the Carolina
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Speaker 3: Panthers and now it's on to Cincinnati for the Jags
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Speaker 3: in week two. Executive Vice president Tony Boselli in studio
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Speaker 3: with us.
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 6: What's up, James W Beer any second?
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Speaker 4: That's great?
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Speaker 7: Right behind me? How we doing boys? That big win? Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'd be excited about that. You gotta love victory victory weeks, James,
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Speaker 7: I guess you know, when we win football games, we
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Speaker 7: don't be on time anymore.
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Speaker 4: Is that how works? James? Those get James, Mike's one first, James.
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Speaker 7: This is on the This is on the heels of
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Speaker 7: us watching practice and me being two minutes late and
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Speaker 7: being questioned while I was two minutes late for practice.
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Speaker 6: So around, it's tardiness.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to get you on a on a
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Speaker 3: different microphone, James. That one's out right now. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: have to get you to share with Tony.
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Speaker 6: Is this Mike out.
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Speaker 4: Coming up? Well, but stick with that one.
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Speaker 6: Just start with James. He's he's got the interesting stuff.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's been all right, a winning result,
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Speaker 3: which is great. A lot of guys brought in and
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Speaker 3: free agency contributed in that win, and the drafted players
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Speaker 3: of course, and then after the game you'll make a deal.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's a busy week for a general manager.
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Speaker 3: How let's start with the game and the performance of
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Speaker 3: the guys on the grass that you brought in really
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Speaker 3: in the offseason.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I think there's a lot to be
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Speaker 2: excited about, you know, from the vantage point of being
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Speaker 2: being able to walk away with a win. It be
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Speaker 2: the first game of the season, see a lot of
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Speaker 2: the stuff that we emphasized as it related to who
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Speaker 2: we wanted to be, what we wanted to be about,
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Speaker 2: showing itself early in the down and you know, at
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Speaker 2: the end of the day, I think, still plenty to
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Speaker 2: clean up. And I think that was something that from
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Speaker 2: coaches to players, we felt that sentiment show through very
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Speaker 2: quickly after the game and you know, not being satisfied,
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Speaker 2: knowing that there's still more to do as an important
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Speaker 2: piece of this. It's a long season, and I think
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Speaker 2: to see that start to surface as a part of
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Speaker 2: the aftermaths, so to speak, it was from my and
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Speaker 2: you know, a pleasant piece to the puzzle because while
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Speaker 2: that was the result that we were hoping for, it's
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Speaker 2: about the process and keeping things one day at a time,
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Speaker 2: one opponent at a time, and on to Cincinnati.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was a good day for you.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm looking at the starting offensive unit here
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Speaker 3: and Robert Hainsey free agent, McCarey free agent offensive line
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Speaker 3: at rush for two hundred, Diamie Brown three for fifty two,
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Speaker 3: Hunter Long had a touchdown, was one of six. I mean,
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Speaker 3: some really outstanding performances across the board offensively. I mean
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Speaker 3: something as you as general manager, got to be proud of.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the fact that we end up getting
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Speaker 2: a win that certainly reigned supreme in my mind.
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Speaker 5: And beyond that, it's.
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Speaker 2: A collective effort to bring together an engineer a team
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Speaker 2: that we feel like we can be proud of, one
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Speaker 2: that we feel like we can win some games with,
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Speaker 2: and that our fans, our supporters can be proud of.
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Speaker 5: And I think that definitely showed up on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: And you know, beyond that, the players bringing it to life,
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Speaker 2: bringing their skill sets to life. And I think one
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Speaker 2: of the things is that I certainly wanted to place
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Speaker 2: an emphasis on this offseason was the idea that anybody
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Speaker 2: that we invite into this organization, by being nothing more
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Speaker 2: than who they are, is raising the space around them.
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Speaker 2: And I think we certainly showed that. They showed that
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Speaker 2: a number of different ways here in Week one, and
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Speaker 2: hopefully that continues to be the case moving forward.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I keep hearing this term from coaches and players, and
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Speaker 3: I think it's true to a lot of areas you
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Speaker 3: could apply it to, and that there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: meat left on the bone, you know, from the running game. Look,
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Speaker 3: there's even some yards that were left out there in
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Speaker 3: that ball game that could have been attained. There's more
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Speaker 3: to gain in the passing game. Defensively, there's more to
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Speaker 3: gain and stopping the run on the early downs. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of room for improvement penalties eliminating them,
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Speaker 3: and that's I think that's a real positive when you
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Speaker 3: have some things that you realize and recognize it can
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Speaker 3: be fixed without a lot of difficulty to improve the team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know, throughout the course of
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Speaker 2: the preseason, obviously we were paying attention to performance, but
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Speaker 2: I think I shared this with you all in this setting.
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Speaker 2: The response is something that we were also looking at,
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Speaker 2: evaluating and hoping to see some level up in that area.
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Speaker 2: And I think especially as it you know, you peak
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Speaker 2: back to just the opening drive of that game, right,
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Speaker 2: the fact that we put ourselves through our own error
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Speaker 2: in first and twenty twice and still we're able to
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Speaker 2: respond in an appropriate way to get points on the.
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Speaker 5: Board that drive.
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Speaker 2: Ultimately, because of our own error, we ended up falling
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Speaker 2: out of you know, a chance to score a touchdown,
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Speaker 2: get six points, seven points. But nonetheless, I think that
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Speaker 2: early series was a reflection of how we as a
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Speaker 2: team are building an identity, and that's an identity that,
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Speaker 2: like we've said, is physically tough, mentally tough. Is the
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Speaker 2: element that really surfaced for me through those responses.
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Speaker 3: So on that drive we talk about early identity and
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Speaker 3: it being big fourth and one to go for it.
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Speaker 3: I'm not against going forward on fourth and one, but
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Speaker 3: where was that ball at exactly on thirty seven, right
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Speaker 3: at the thirty seven.
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Speaker 2: Bold? You know, I called those definitely when there's an
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Speaker 2: opt to be bold, we're not going to be flinched,
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Speaker 2: I will I will say this. I labeled those as
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Speaker 2: decision differentiators in that game. That wasn't the only fourth
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Speaker 2: and one that we opted to go for in that game,
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Speaker 2: it was right off the bat. But you know, those
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Speaker 2: are are the moments that you can look back on
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Speaker 2: that make the difference anxiety, James, You know what, I'm
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Speaker 2: glad that it tilted in our favor, and I think
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Speaker 2: the next time its surfaces, you may feel a little
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Speaker 2: more confident in that decision.
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Speaker 5: And hopefully the results look the same.
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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, I'm not at all surprised that you know,
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Speaker 2: through the preparation, through the work through the execution that
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Speaker 2: we've seen up to that point, that Liam had the
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Speaker 2: confidence to just sort of make that decision and for
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Speaker 2: our players to go out and execute and really make
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Speaker 2: sure that it was what we wanted.
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Speaker 3: James Gladstone with us general manager Tony was Slli's here.
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Speaker 3: So this is the best segment because Tony hasn't really
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Speaker 3: said much yet. So now we're gonna move this microphone
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Speaker 3: back over to I'm.
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Speaker 6: Happy to sit here and let's keep going the way
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Speaker 6: it is. I think it's perfect.
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Speaker 3: So a little bit more on the physicality aspect of it,
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Speaker 3: you know, opening up holes, they break the seventy one
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Speaker 3: yarder and go for two hundred as a team on
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Speaker 3: the ground on the offensive side especially, but you saw
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Speaker 3: it on defense too. They just were the tougher team.
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Speaker 7: It felt like, well, it's something that we've talked about
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Speaker 7: since day one, when all three of us, even before
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Speaker 7: players are in here, the type of team and the
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Speaker 7: way we were going to play football. Liam has been
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Speaker 7: consistent with messaging to the team, to the building, to everybody,
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Speaker 7: and it's also kind of the type of players we
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Speaker 7: want to bring in here. James just talked about those
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Speaker 7: that we're going to invite in that we want to
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Speaker 7: be a part of the Jacksonville Jaguars. It means something
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Speaker 7: to be a Jaguar. There's a standard of we're going
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Speaker 7: to execute, how we're going to operate, and how we're
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Speaker 7: going to play the game. And what was the most
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Speaker 7: fun for me? Obviously winning is the best part, without
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Speaker 7: hands down, You'll take a win if you just score
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Speaker 7: one more points in the other guys and you're happy.
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Speaker 7: But watching our players come out and rise to the
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Speaker 7: challenge that the head coach had said of, Hey, this
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Speaker 7: is what it means.
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Speaker 6: To be a Jaguar, and this is how we're going
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Speaker 6: to play.
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Speaker 7: And from first snap to last snap, there's a lot
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Speaker 7: to clean up. You know, there's a lot of things
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Speaker 7: we have to do better as an organization around you know,
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Speaker 7: in this building, on the field, everyone, everyone needs to
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Speaker 7: get better each week. But with that said, Jeff, you
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Speaker 7: played the game a long time, is when we played it.
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Speaker 7: I just have I'm a firm believer that the more
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Speaker 7: physical team, the more violent team, the team that down
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Speaker 7: in and down out, that imposes their will against the
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Speaker 7: other team is going to win more times than not.
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Speaker 7: And that's what we want to be that's how we
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Speaker 7: want to bat as an organization.
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Speaker 4: And that's what our players did.
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Speaker 6: And they went out there and they man.
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Speaker 7: They were physical both sides of the ball, offense, defense,
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Speaker 7: but not just the line of scrimmage. Our backs were physical,
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Speaker 7: our wide receivers, I mean Donny brown sprinting down the
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Speaker 7: field on Travis's long run to go get clean it up.
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Speaker 7: Tim Patrick doing a great job sealing a defensive end
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Speaker 7: on the reverse. You watch our defense, Eric Murray from
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Speaker 7: the safety position coming up and tackling, disrupting the passing game,
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Speaker 7: caused a pick. Foyer being all over the place, you know,
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Speaker 7: Josh heinz Allen winning in constant pressure in that game,
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Speaker 7: Tyson Campbell from the corner position, coming and tackling in
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Speaker 7: the running game in the backfield. Darian Jones did the
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Speaker 7: same thing on a big down and distance. And so
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Speaker 7: these are things that we've been asking our players to do,
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Speaker 7: not even speaking about the big guys. Yet the offensive
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Speaker 7: line dominated their front zero pressures, running the ball effectively.
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Speaker 7: Our tight ends Brenton Strang, Hunter Long, Johnny Munt showing
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Speaker 7: up in the run game, being physical, Like, there's so
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Speaker 7: many things we have to clean up there's so much
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Speaker 7: there's so many opportunities for us to play better, less mistakes.
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Speaker 7: But at the end of the game, this is a
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Speaker 7: physical football, this is a physical sport, and the more
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Speaker 7: physical team is going to win more times than not.
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Speaker 7: And we can control it. We control how we want
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Speaker 7: to play and the effort we give. And I couldn't
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Speaker 7: be more just very happy for our coaching staff and
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Speaker 7: our players because they're the ones who bring.
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Speaker 6: It to life.
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Speaker 7: I mean, James and I are sitting a long way away,
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Speaker 7: not too far from you guys, watching, and so a
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Speaker 7: lot of the credit, if not all the credit goes
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Speaker 7: to those guys and and uh everyone involved on the field.
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Speaker 6: It was it was a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 4: All right, guys, let's come back. We've got to get
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Speaker 4: into the tank.
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Speaker 3: Bigs, we trade and also we'll look ahead Cincinnati Bengals
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Speaker 3: onto Cincinnati.
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Speaker 7: As the only thing that matters right now. That's the
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Speaker 7: next week, the biggest game in the history of the
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Speaker 7: franchise coming up. The next one's biggest one, the biggest ever.
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Speaker 3: Jaguars Bengals this Sunday, We're back in a moment, it's
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh from Florida continues
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Jags a SQ is presented by Fresh from Florida, J P. Shadwick,
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Speaker 3: Jeff Logman. We're at the Hunda studios of the Miller
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Speaker 3: Electric Center. Tony Vasselli, James Gladstone in studio with us
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Speaker 3: before we move on to Cincinnati after the game Monday.
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Speaker 3: A trade with the Eagles. Two draft picks coming back,
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Speaker 3: a fifth and sixth rounder. I think the fifth can
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Speaker 3: move into a fourth if there's a certain thing that
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Speaker 3: happens with another player in the league that you can tell.
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Speaker 4: It's just the details of that if you'd like.
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Speaker 3: However, two trip picks going back, Tank Bigsby goes to Philadelphia.
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Speaker 4: Why the move and why now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think.
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Speaker 2: Seeing our running back room takes shape over the course
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Speaker 2: of the offseason.
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Speaker 5: We were really.
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Speaker 2: Excited about, you know, the luxury of having four even
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Speaker 2: five guys in Jaquindin who showed up in the preseason
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Speaker 2: really in particular there against Miami in preseason Game three.
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Speaker 2: But guys that we felt like were you know, worthy
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Speaker 2: of some action. It's obviously touched. It's tough to get
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Speaker 2: that many guys touches in a single game, and so
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Speaker 2: we were able to get to a place where all
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Speaker 2: four were active on Sunday, and you know, obviously through
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Speaker 2: that got a feel for roles and contributions, and obviously
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Speaker 2: the fact that Travis was able to do what he
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Speaker 2: did was was pretty exciting and obviously would like to
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Speaker 2: continue to carry that forward, but at the same time
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Speaker 2: knowing that that can't be each and every week, that
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Speaker 2: you know your tote in the rock that often or
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Speaker 2: that frequently over the course of an eighteen week season,
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Speaker 2: but nonetheless knowing that we have some pretty vivid roles
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Speaker 2: within the lens of base shal touton LeQuinn Allen. The
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles were certainly in a place where they felt
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Speaker 2: like Tank had a place for them and would see
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Speaker 2: some contributions from them, and through in a clear role,
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Speaker 2: I think that it was best for both parties to
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Speaker 2: sort of take take this next step, and I wish
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Speaker 2: him nothing but the best I know. You know, during
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Speaker 2: his time here, he was committed to the process and
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Speaker 2: gave an urgent approach to the way in which he
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Speaker 2: attacked the grass, and that was very much appreciated. But
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Speaker 2: I think this is a reflection of how we feel
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Speaker 2: about the shape of that room, you know, beyond him,
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Speaker 2: and really what that could look like into this season.
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Speaker 5: Really excited about it.
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Speaker 3: And one of the guys that's going to get a
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Speaker 3: little bit of an increase and touch is probably Bacial Tooting,
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Speaker 3: And that one play in the game just sticks in
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Speaker 3: my mind where he's like, I guess it's like an
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Speaker 3: inside zone. He goes to the left and there's nothing
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Speaker 3: there and he just kind of hops over to the
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Speaker 3: right just a little bit, and then the acceleration through
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Speaker 3: the hole was just wow. I mean, a guy that
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Speaker 3: has that kind of vision, that kind of acceleration and
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Speaker 3: the power that he finishes with. I'm excited to watch
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Speaker 3: him play more.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think all three of those guys
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Speaker 2: that you know we still have coming back, And obviously
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Speaker 2: we added Cody Schrader now to the active roster, somebody
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Speaker 2: that we got some familiarity with a similar system coming
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Speaker 2: from the Los Angeles. Rams certainly excited about his addition.
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Speaker 2: Had a great practice here today in pads and you know,
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Speaker 2: as I think about bay Shall in particular, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: it's easy for folks to point towards his forty yard
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Speaker 2: dash because it was it was very fast, and you know,
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Speaker 2: while that's that's nice, it's.
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Speaker 5: Not what drew our attention to bay Shall.
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Speaker 2: He's a very physical runner, and he stays on his
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Speaker 2: feet and obviously he's got popped the top potential.
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Speaker 5: Through his speed.
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Speaker 2: That forty yard dash shows up in football pads. But
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Speaker 2: he plays football first, and so that's the stuff that
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Speaker 2: you really appreciate, appreciate about him. And you know, obviously
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Speaker 2: it's it's not always the easiest thing for a rookie
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Speaker 2: runner to get onto the grass, earn the trust, and
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Speaker 2: be able to get a high volume of reps. And
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Speaker 2: now we got two of them who have seemingly found
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Speaker 2: their footing and found a niche role. With the Quint
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Speaker 2: who sets the tone. I think it's very clear to
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Speaker 2: see his interest in past protection on third downs, how
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Speaker 2: that showed up on Sunday, even being able to pick
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Speaker 2: a third down and short up in the run game.
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Speaker 3: You think pass introduced himself early the game and Trey
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Speaker 3: hendrickson this week number ninety one, you.
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Speaker 2: Know what that's We'll see how the game unfold in
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Speaker 2: real time. But nonetheless, I know Quint is certainly excited
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Speaker 2: a bount the opportunity here this Sunday watching some of those.
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Speaker 2: So the reason so reason I'm late, it's right off
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Speaker 2: the heels of Tony being late for what we.
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Speaker 5: Were doing prior to this. Yeah, it's a trickle down
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Speaker 5: effect here.
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Speaker 2: But it was we were watching practice and that was
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Speaker 2: that was certainly an exciting day and past as from
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Speaker 2: a physicality standpoint in particular out of some of our
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Speaker 2: runners who were doing some things that certainly showed life
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Speaker 2: on what can typically be some version of a hump
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Speaker 2: day in the NFL thursdays in practice.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, go back to Beachelle. It's interesting.
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Speaker 7: Everyone talks about a speed, which is he's very fast.
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Speaker 7: I believe the stat is he had eleven yards total
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Speaker 7: yards of rushing. He had thirteen yards after contact. Think
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Speaker 7: about that, so beating that and still yet today he
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Speaker 7: has not lost a yard running the ball. He is
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Speaker 7: somebody who has outstanding contact balance, who finishes runs and
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Speaker 7: it's somehow some way is falling forward almost every time.
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Speaker 7: So it's unique, you know, because a lot of times
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Speaker 7: you see those four to two backs or are more
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Speaker 7: space backs that you know.
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Speaker 4: They can't they can't move, you know, I mean they,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 7: Maybe not as good laterally, maybe not as good after
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Speaker 7: conton maybe you know, they're more open space scatback types.
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Speaker 7: This is I mean, he's a complete back and I
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Speaker 7: think that's why we're so excited to see what he
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Speaker 7: can do. But as much as much as excitement as
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Speaker 7: we have for him, I mean, you can't bury the
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Speaker 7: story and what Travis did.
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Speaker 6: He too, No, I mean he was absolutely dominant. He
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Speaker 6: had a great game.
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Speaker 7: He was outstanding the open field, but also between the tackles.
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Speaker 7: I think it's probably the you know, we've watched him
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Speaker 7: for a long time, and you know, we've known that
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Speaker 7: he's a talented guy, especially in space he gets outside,
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Speaker 7: but his ability to really make people miss in the
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Speaker 7: hole between the.
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Speaker 6: Tackles was outstanding.
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Speaker 7: Did some dirty work and really just had a great
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Speaker 7: game and I really appreciate his effort and what he brought.
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Speaker 2: On Sunday, every time we talk about the runners, it
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Speaker 2: has to be discussed.
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Speaker 5: We got to talk about the fact.
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Speaker 2: That all eleven are involved in the rushing attack. So
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Speaker 2: we can't ever have a conversation about running backs without
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Speaker 2: always giving some nod to the fact that the ol
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Speaker 2: the tight ends the wide receivers, even the passing attack
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Speaker 2: brings that to life, so you know their success is
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Speaker 2: a product of everyone else's role in that.
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Speaker 5: And certainly got to take.
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Speaker 3: As Tony told you that, I'm the president of the
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Speaker 3: Brenton Strange Fan Club.
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Speaker 5: I join.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of members right now, members I was
18:18
Speaker 3: from the beginning.
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Speaker 4: I was, I was a founding member.
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing there's a mic with a receipt on it
18:22
Speaker 2: from this spring at some point.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's take credit.
18:26
Speaker 3: Well, I bring that up just because I've watched him
18:30
Speaker 3: since he got here from day one, and who doesn't
18:34
Speaker 3: want a tight end that is willing to do the
18:38
Speaker 3: dirty work and is also more than willing and capable
18:42
Speaker 3: to give you a lot in the passing game. I mean,
18:45
Speaker 3: a true matchup advantage against defense is when you got
18:50
Speaker 3: a tight end that can block like he can and
18:54
Speaker 3: be a receiver like he can't appreach.
18:56
Speaker 2: I can think back to I think I got hired
18:59
Speaker 2: on a Friday evening night, and the next Saturday, linked
19:03
Speaker 2: up with our scouting staff surveyed them, and two names
19:08
Speaker 2: surfaced across the large collective results in that survey, and
19:14
Speaker 2: it was the fact that Breton Strange and Parker Washington
19:17
Speaker 2: were labeled as two players who have given the Runway
19:21
Speaker 2: the opportunity for ascension that they could in fact do so.
19:26
Speaker 2: And it's really cool to see that show itself so
19:28
Speaker 2: early in the season. I think we felt it for
19:30
Speaker 2: the large majority of the off season and into training camp,
19:34
Speaker 2: but it's great to see that show it so quickly.
19:37
Speaker 3: Let's return and move on to Cincinnati and a high
19:41
Speaker 3: powered offense kind of quiet. Last week, we'll talk about
19:45
Speaker 3: the challenge ahead for the Jaguars d and this is
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Speaker 3: Jaguars HQ on Jaggs Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back Shaggs h Q presented by Fresh from Florida
20:04
Speaker 1: continues right now.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back a Shaggs h Q presented by Fresh from Florida.
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Speaker 3: J P Shadwick, Jeff Logoman, GM, James Gladstone, E VP
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Speaker 3: Tony Boselli in the studio with us live for the
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Speaker 3: next few minutes ahead of the Jaguars Bengals matchup in
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Speaker 3: Week two. Pay Course Stadium, Cincinnati the site. And let's
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Speaker 3: start with I mean, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Shoho, T.
20:28
Speaker 4: Higgins. You might have heard of it. I never heard of
20:29
Speaker 4: that time or two. This is this is an AWD.
20:32
Speaker 4: It can be decent. He's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: I guess the question is why weren't they last week?
20:36
Speaker 3: They've always been slow starting in this regime. For whatever reason,
20:40
Speaker 3: they've they've got like two wins, two and eleven in
20:42
Speaker 3: the first two weeks.
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, let's give credit to the Cleveland it's
20:45
Speaker 5: a salty defense.
20:46
Speaker 6: It's a very good They've got a lot of talent.
20:49
Speaker 7: The probably the best defensive end of football, and Miles
20:52
Speaker 7: Garrett and their secondary did a great job.
20:54
Speaker 6: They're well coached.
20:56
Speaker 7: I mean, that's a good un like you gotta give
20:58
Speaker 7: you got to give them, but you got to you
21:02
Speaker 7: got to give them credit. They played a great game.
21:05
Speaker 7: So listen, don't take don't take anything away from the
21:09
Speaker 7: Cincinnati Bengals offense. Joe Burrow is one of the best
21:12
Speaker 7: quarterbacks in this era. He's outstanding. Get Jamar Chase yet
21:15
Speaker 7: T Higgins. Got Kaseki, who's a very very good receiving
21:18
Speaker 7: tight end. Chase Brown, their running back is a good player, physical, finishes,
21:24
Speaker 7: runs hard to bring down.
21:26
Speaker 6: They're good.
21:26
Speaker 7: They got a good unit, and their defense doesn't get
21:29
Speaker 7: talked about. They got one of the best pass rushers
21:31
Speaker 7: in all football. So it's gonna be a great test,
21:33
Speaker 7: a great opportunity for us to go up there and
21:35
Speaker 7: face a very good football team that wasn't too long ago,
21:38
Speaker 7: was in the Super Bowl and won the last five
21:41
Speaker 7: games of the season. Last year won the opener, so
21:43
Speaker 7: they're on a little bit of a hot streak, very
21:46
Speaker 7: confident home opener.
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Speaker 6: It's it's gonna be what an environment. It's gonna be
21:49
Speaker 6: a great.
21:49
Speaker 7: Opportunity for us to go in right into the enemy
21:52
Speaker 7: territory and the crowd. It's an orange out, It'll be
21:55
Speaker 7: you know, it's gonna be a lot of fun looking
21:57
Speaker 7: forward to.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there are some moments in last week's game for
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati versus Cleveland that you're like, oh, so you want
22:05
Speaker 2: to play quarterback in the NFL. Huh That Joe Burrow
22:09
Speaker 2: takes a hit, gets right back up, calls him play
22:12
Speaker 2: in the huddle. Time takes another hit, gets right back up,
22:16
Speaker 2: calls him playing the huddle, It takes another hit.
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Speaker 5: It was you.
22:19
Speaker 2: You look at the quarterbacks around the NFL and for
22:23
Speaker 2: so many of them like these are some of the
22:25
Speaker 2: toughest human beings on planet Earth.
22:27
Speaker 4: Well, there's guys, there's some that just don't flinch. No,
22:29
Speaker 4: I mean he's one of them. Joe Burrow is one
22:31
Speaker 4: of the guys that does not flinch.
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Speaker 3: You can hit him fifteen times in the sixteenth time
22:35
Speaker 3: that he's got pressure coming, he's not finching. He's staying
22:37
Speaker 3: in there and making the.
22:39
Speaker 2: Right and if there's nobody that's even approaching him, it's
22:42
Speaker 2: it's fascinating.
22:43
Speaker 3: He's got one hundred and ninety nine sacks in seventy
22:46
Speaker 3: career games man, that's a lot.
22:48
Speaker 5: Wow.
22:49
Speaker 3: But the record's like five hundred and something Aaron Rodgers
22:52
Speaker 3: twenty one seasons. Yeah, he's getting halfway, so played forever.
22:57
Speaker 3: That's a lot of hits, a lot of hits. But
22:59
Speaker 3: like James, it doesn't face him. And but we got
23:02
Speaker 3: but the one.
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Speaker 7: Thing that the best way to disrupt a great quarterback
23:06
Speaker 7: and get him off is to make a move around there,
23:09
Speaker 7: and you gotta hit him, you gotta you gotta disrupt
23:11
Speaker 7: his timing, because if you allow a guy like that
23:14
Speaker 7: to sit back there with those weapons out there, it's
23:16
Speaker 7: it's tough on anybody. And so it's a big, big
23:19
Speaker 7: challenge for our front and our defense to get after him.
23:22
Speaker 7: And but so often you know, you get stuck on
23:26
Speaker 7: just okay, we got to pressure him, but it's really
23:28
Speaker 7: it's compilmary football across the board. But also on defense,
23:31
Speaker 7: you have to have good, strong coverage. If you can
23:32
Speaker 7: get him hold of a tick longer, let the rush
23:35
Speaker 7: get there, Just move him off a spot, even if
23:38
Speaker 7: you're not getting him on the ground, hitting them, just
23:40
Speaker 7: trying to make him as uncomfortable as you possibly can
23:42
Speaker 7: to disrupt the timing of a really good offense.
23:44
Speaker 3: I'm going to go back to a brain speaking of
23:47
Speaker 3: complimentary plays. So I'm going to go back to this
23:49
Speaker 3: past game a little bit beause a lot of people mean,
23:51
Speaker 3: what do you mean by complimentary plays? And if people
23:55
Speaker 3: will remember that Jordan Lewis had a pass break up
23:58
Speaker 3: PBu and the intended receiver was Hunter Renfro And if
24:04
Speaker 3: it wasn't for josh Heinz Allen on a little inside
24:07
Speaker 3: power move and then literally forcing Bryce Young to throw
24:10
Speaker 3: off of his back foot and to elevate the ball
24:12
Speaker 3: in the air, Jordan Lewis doesn't make that play, you
24:16
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So when you talk about complimentary football,
24:18
Speaker 3: I mean for the fan base that's out there, I
24:20
Speaker 3: mean that's a perfect example of complimentary play within a
24:26
Speaker 3: play itself, because that's how that whole play worked.
24:30
Speaker 2: It's awesome, a great reference point, there's no doubt about it.
24:34
Speaker 2: You hear the marriage between the run and the pass
24:37
Speaker 2: and play calling on offense, right, That's what a lot
24:39
Speaker 2: of people in the coaching tree that Liam Cohen comes
24:43
Speaker 2: from would preach talk about on defense, the marriage between
24:48
Speaker 2: the rush and the coverage. Right, those are typically the
24:50
Speaker 2: two offense defense marriage or complimentary items that you bring.
24:55
Speaker 3: On a good play for people to do what you're
24:58
Speaker 3: talking about their offense about running the ball to compliment
25:01
Speaker 3: the passing game. You know, and the one drive when
25:04
Speaker 3: Hunter Long catches the touchdown, your offense is running the
25:07
Speaker 3: ball effectively, and all of a sudden play action, you
25:10
Speaker 3: got all three linebackers that literally suck into the line
25:13
Speaker 3: of scrimmage and there goes Hunter Long wide opening the
25:16
Speaker 3: end zone.
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Speaker 4: Nobody's even covering them.
25:18
Speaker 3: I mean, that's like you talk about the complement part
25:21
Speaker 3: of run and pass. I mean that was another perfect
25:24
Speaker 3: example of the offense. And you know, and this week,
25:28
Speaker 3: you know it's going to be challenging. The one thing
25:30
Speaker 3: that Al Golden, a new defensive coordinator, has done in Cincinnati.
25:33
Speaker 3: I think they average Cleveland did about two yards of rush,
25:37
Speaker 3: and so the emphasis about stopping the run, and Cincinnati
25:41
Speaker 3: is there and they got some big dudes up in
25:43
Speaker 3: the middle middle linebacker who is exceptional, and we all
25:46
Speaker 3: know about Trey Hendrickson.
25:48
Speaker 4: That's going to be a challenge.
25:49
Speaker 5: No doubt, and I think it was fun.
25:51
Speaker 2: I'm walking the halls of the facility Monday evening, pretty
25:55
Speaker 2: late in the evening, and I'm walking past Grant Yudinsky's
25:59
Speaker 2: office and I see Jack Kaiser sitting in there, and
26:03
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck are you guys up to poke.
26:05
Speaker 5: My head in?
26:06
Speaker 2: They got Notre Dame film on, so a little deep
26:09
Speaker 2: scoop from Kaiser offense, which was kind of fun to see.
26:14
Speaker 2: You're tapping every well you can uh when building out
26:17
Speaker 2: a game plan.
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Speaker 4: Here a really good college defense the last couple of
26:20
Speaker 4: years too.
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Speaker 5: But there's no doubt about it. If there's somebody that
26:23
Speaker 5: knows it as a player, it's Jack Kaiser.
26:28
Speaker 3: I wonder if you mean, I don't know Antonio, you
26:30
Speaker 3: could probably know us better than I could. But I mean,
26:32
Speaker 3: if I had like audibles or anything from a you know,
26:37
Speaker 3: offensive standpoint that the quarterback is talking that language. If
26:40
Speaker 3: I knew some of that language, it would help me
26:42
Speaker 3: as a defender. If Jack Kaiser gives Grant Yudinsky some terminology,
26:47
Speaker 3: does that help an offense with terminology?
26:50
Speaker 2: Or I don't know how much you're you're putting into that.
26:52
Speaker 2: Things can change, you know, over the course of a year.
26:55
Speaker 2: I think from my understanding, there's more, Hey, where are
26:59
Speaker 2: we in ConfL tier in this coverage? From your understanding,
27:02
Speaker 2: having lived in these shoes, where did you feel vulnerable
27:07
Speaker 2: when this was being deployed?
27:08
Speaker 5: All that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: I think that's, by the way, that's a credit to
27:11
Speaker 3: Jack Kaiser, because there's a lot of players you're gonna
27:14
Speaker 3: you're not going to bring in your office because they
27:15
Speaker 3: can't tell you what the hell they were doing in college.
27:18
Speaker 4: Like you like vea.
27:23
Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 7: And I think the the interesting thing is because I
27:26
Speaker 7: think if you look at college football in the pro game,
27:29
Speaker 7: it's probably closer now than it's ever been in the history.
27:32
Speaker 7: I mean, so for so often you know, you'd have
27:35
Speaker 7: pro style offenses and you had, you know, more of
27:38
Speaker 7: a different John Rowards style of play in the college gaming,
27:42
Speaker 7: we're seeing it.
27:42
Speaker 6: You can meld more and more.
27:45
Speaker 7: Uh, And you see coaches going back and forth from
27:48
Speaker 7: college to the pros, and Alco Golden is the guy
27:51
Speaker 7: who's been in both. So bringing pro influences to the
27:53
Speaker 7: college defense at Notre Dame had a ton of success,
27:57
Speaker 7: probably some tweaks coming to the pros. It's still at
28:00
Speaker 7: the same time a lot of the structure of those
28:03
Speaker 7: defenses and coverages and how he kind of thinks about football.
28:06
Speaker 7: There's gonna be some carryover and so on. Having a
28:09
Speaker 7: very smart player in Jack Kaiser who just got done
28:12
Speaker 7: playing with them, is you want to you want to
28:15
Speaker 7: get as much information as you can, but it just
28:17
Speaker 7: starts building the picture of how you're gonna attack and
28:21
Speaker 7: understand how do you think al go al Golden and
28:23
Speaker 7: that defense is going to attack us?
28:25
Speaker 4: All right?
28:25
Speaker 3: So you guys worried that they signed Miles Cole this
28:27
Speaker 3: week speaking of like, you know, gaining information.
28:30
Speaker 5: It's not a bad decision.
28:32
Speaker 2: You know, that's a that certainly could be a well
28:34
Speaker 2: that gets tapped from their vantage point. H At the
28:37
Speaker 2: end of the day, I think they ended up bringing
28:39
Speaker 2: it in a couple of new new faces on their
28:41
Speaker 2: practice squad.
28:43
Speaker 5: Former Golden Domer uh as well.
28:46
Speaker 2: So yeah, they're making some some transitions there across their
28:49
Speaker 2: front and uh, at the end of the day, I
28:50
Speaker 2: think it's going to be more rooted and seeing a
28:52
Speaker 2: lot of the same faces that we saw against the
28:55
Speaker 2: Browns last week still show up. They elevated so guys
29:00
Speaker 2: there from practice squad to the active roster who were
29:02
Speaker 2: playing in that game. So little roster mechanics going on,
29:05
Speaker 2: but nothing too crazy.
29:07
Speaker 6: But it still comes down to the same fundamentals.
29:09
Speaker 7: I mean, you can have all as many answers to
29:11
Speaker 7: the test as you want going into the game, but
29:15
Speaker 7: we got to go first and foremost worry about ourselves
29:18
Speaker 7: and make sure we are being who we are and
29:20
Speaker 7: that's a physical, tough, smart team and go out there
29:24
Speaker 7: and play that style of football and see what happens.
29:26
Speaker 4: Managing the noise is going to be a huge deal
29:29
Speaker 4: this week.
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Speaker 7: What especially, you know, it's you know, Trevor did such
29:32
Speaker 7: a great job in that game against the Carolina Panthers
29:36
Speaker 7: of the of the entire operation and really getting us
29:38
Speaker 7: in the right play. So much has been made about
29:41
Speaker 7: Liam Cohen's offense, you know, about calling two plays in
29:44
Speaker 7: the huddle, you know, audibleing based on what the defense gives,
29:47
Speaker 7: and Trevor was outstanding. He did a great job of
29:49
Speaker 7: leading the offense in that game. The challenge is now
29:52
Speaker 7: increased because now you're gonna have to use hand signals.
29:55
Speaker 7: You're gonna be on a sign account quite a bit,
29:58
Speaker 7: and then you're gonna have to be very purposeful and
29:59
Speaker 7: you're communication. So it's going to be you know, in
30:02
Speaker 7: the huddle, everyone looking at Trevor's face, paying attention, but
30:06
Speaker 7: at the same time, Trevor with the line of scrimmage,
30:08
Speaker 7: working down line of scrimmage, making sure everyone's getting the calls.
30:10
Speaker 7: Up front, Robert Hainsey our center, who does a great
30:13
Speaker 7: job of communicating and getting everyone on the same page,
30:16
Speaker 7: you know, really emphasizing and speaking loud and making sure
30:19
Speaker 7: guys have the call, because the last thing you can
30:22
Speaker 7: do is going into the pre snap not be on
30:24
Speaker 7: the same page because then you really have no chance,
30:27
Speaker 7: and so communication will be a premium and it's good.
30:31
Speaker 7: But that's that's what this game is about. It's a
30:33
Speaker 7: lot of fun. I mean, there's nothing better A lot
30:37
Speaker 7: of times, and going on the road and a hostile environment,
30:40
Speaker 7: backs up against the wall and playing a good team
30:43
Speaker 7: and you start running the ball, start having success, making
30:45
Speaker 7: some plays, and all of a sudden, that crowd gets
30:47
Speaker 7: a little bit quieter. And so the one way to
30:51
Speaker 7: quieter crowd is get a lot of first downs, because
30:54
Speaker 7: they only can scream so much too and they can
30:57
Speaker 7: holler so much for so long. So start getting for
31:00
Speaker 7: don't worry about you know too much. But he go
31:03
Speaker 7: get that first down, Go get another one. Start putting
31:06
Speaker 7: some drives together, and it's amazing how that crowd gets
31:08
Speaker 7: pretty quiet, pretty fast.
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Speaker 3: Guys, great stuff again. We'll do it again next week.
31:12
Speaker 3: Good luck to you in Cincinnati. Appreciate it, looking forward
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Speaker 3: to it.
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Speaker 5: Thanks for the invite today. Maybe to go a minute overtime?
31:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, do we owe you guys extra time because you're late?
31:22
Speaker 6: I mean, if you want to stick around, I mean whatever,
31:26
Speaker 6: I don't know what's the break situation.
31:27
Speaker 4: Well we're behind, but that's okay.
31:29
Speaker 6: Well then we don't want to We'll take.
31:31
Speaker 4: Off glad soon Tony Vasselli with us.
31:34
Speaker 3: We'll have Dan Horde of the Bengals Radio Network in
31:37
Speaker 3: about twenty minutes.
31:38
Speaker 4: This is jags HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
31:51
Speaker 1: Welcome back jags HQ, presented by Fresh fromk Florida continues
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32:02
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32:05
Speaker 4: And welcome back to Jags HQJ P.
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Speaker 3: Shadwick with Jeff Logman are thanks to Tony Boselli and
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Speaker 3: James Gladstone's winning US most every week here on this program.
32:13
Speaker 3: We'll have head coach Liam Cohen occasionally throughout the season.
32:17
Speaker 3: But the Jags are want to oh and they're on
32:19
Speaker 3: to Cincinnati, and there's a lot of positive out of
32:21
Speaker 3: last week's game, but still a lot to work on
32:24
Speaker 3: and then better to work on it after winning result.
32:27
Speaker 3: And that was kind of the vibe I think in
32:29
Speaker 3: the building this week, and especially from these two here. Well, yeah,
32:32
Speaker 3: I mean it's always it's always nice, it's positive, and
32:35
Speaker 3: energy is always there when you win, especially early in
32:38
Speaker 3: the season. And the reality is is that when you
32:41
Speaker 3: win that first game, the chances of making the playoffs
32:45
Speaker 3: literally are doubled. Look if you compared to whether you
32:48
Speaker 3: lose or win that first game, and then all of
32:50
Speaker 3: a sudden, if you end up winning that second game,
32:52
Speaker 3: your chances of making the playoffs. They actually jump to
32:55
Speaker 3: like seventy five plus percent or whatever it is, somewhere
32:58
Speaker 3: in that range. And I think that's one back to
33:00
Speaker 3: like twenty twenty numbers. So I mean, the reality is analytically,
33:05
Speaker 3: if you look at it from that standpoint, it's it's
33:07
Speaker 3: all good stuff, you know.
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Speaker 4: And and Cincinnati.
33:10
Speaker 3: Is gonna be a great challenge. Their offense is dynamic.
33:13
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase is I think the best wide receiver in football,
33:17
Speaker 3: and they're gonna have to do a really good job
33:19
Speaker 3: of minimizing the damage because he's gonna have he's gonna
33:22
Speaker 3: create damage, and you're not gonna stop the damage. You
33:24
Speaker 3: just got to minimize it. To your point about the statistics,
33:27
Speaker 3: the one and oh start, fifty four percent of teams
33:29
Speaker 3: have made the playoffs since nineteen ninety A, two and
33:32
Speaker 3: oh start sixty four percent of teams have made the
33:34
Speaker 3: playoffs since nineteen ninety three, and oh it's seventy five percent.
33:38
Speaker 3: So it's basically, you're adding ten percent every time we
33:41
Speaker 3: win a game. STA stack.
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Speaker 4: Eighty five percent at four and oh, and you.
33:47
Speaker 3: Know we you had mentioned this earlier that Zach Taylor's
33:50
Speaker 3: record as a head coach is two and eleven since
33:53
Speaker 3: he took.
33:53
Speaker 4: Over in the first two weeks of the season.
33:55
Speaker 3: And that's not a great number. And if you looked
33:58
Speaker 3: at Cincinnatiatti historically, they have not been great early in
34:02
Speaker 3: the year at all, not just in the first two games.
34:06
Speaker 3: They've always been slow starters. And if you looked at
34:09
Speaker 3: the Cleveland game, that was an example of a slow start.
34:13
Speaker 3: So I don't think you have them hitting on all
34:17
Speaker 3: cylinders like they were towards the end of last season
34:20
Speaker 3: when they finished out, you know, with whatever four or
34:22
Speaker 3: five consecutive wins to close the season out. So I
34:26
Speaker 3: think it's a good time to get Cincinnati. I would
34:28
Speaker 3: rather be playing Cincinnati week two as opposed to Week sixteen.
34:31
Speaker 4: I can tell you that when they're rolling, it's tough
34:35
Speaker 4: to slow this group down. For sure.
34:36
Speaker 3: We'll come back in a moment and we'll get that
34:38
Speaker 3: Cincinnati perspective from Dan Horde, the longtime voice of the
34:42
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals, his thoughts on the receiving duo and the
34:47
Speaker 3: Super Bowl window for the Bengals.
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Speaker 4: That's next.
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Speaker 3: It's jag zh Q on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jaggs HQ, presented by Fresh from Florida continues
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Jaggs HQ rolling along on this Thursday, JP Shadwick with you.
35:12
Speaker 3: We'll get with Jeff Logoman shortly again for more ahead
35:15
Speaker 3: of this Jaguars Bengals matchup.
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Speaker 4: Well, let's get that Bengals perspective.
35:20
Speaker 3: Dan Horde has been the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals
35:23
Speaker 3: since twenty eleven, also the voice of the Cincinnati Bearcats
35:26
Speaker 3: on radio and the college football team.
35:28
Speaker 4: This Bengals offense.
35:29
Speaker 3: Though, is triggered, of course by Joe Burrow, but the
35:32
Speaker 3: weapons outside are key. Jamar Chase and T Higgins the
35:36
Speaker 3: best duo in the National Football League.
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Speaker 4: The question, though, is what's next for these two.
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Speaker 8: I don't know that there is one, honestly, except in
35:44
Speaker 8: Te's case, to try to stay healthier. He's had some
35:47
Speaker 8: hamstring issues over the last couple of years and have
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Speaker 8: missed has missed five games in each of those seasons.
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Speaker 8: But in terms of their on field production, it really
35:55
Speaker 8: can't be much better. So the question is the guys
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Speaker 8: around them. You know what you're going to get in
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Speaker 8: Chase and Higgins, So who's the third wide receiver? I
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Speaker 8: think andre Yosi vash is an emerging young talent, a
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Speaker 8: late draft pick a few years ago out of Princeton.
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Speaker 8: He had a tremendous camp and he has caught ten
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Speaker 8: touchdown passes in his first two NFL seasons. So I'm
36:17
Speaker 8: not sure if many people know that name, but I
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Speaker 8: think he's a really talented guy. They extended the contract
36:23
Speaker 8: of Mike Kasiki, a tight end, after he had a
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Speaker 8: very good first year in Cincinnati, and then went out
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Speaker 8: and added a former first round draft pick to go
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Speaker 8: with him in Noah Fant, who had excellent Bengals debut
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Speaker 8: last week with four catches including a touchdown against the Browns,
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Speaker 8: and then in the running game, Chase Brown over the
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Speaker 8: last eight games of last season was probably the third
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Speaker 8: best running back in the NFL, behind Saquon Barkley and
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Speaker 8: Derrick Henry. Chase didn't have a great first week against Cleveland.
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Speaker 8: He did score a touchdown in the game, but if
36:52
Speaker 8: you look back over the last eight games of last year,
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Speaker 8: he averaged one hundred and sixteen scrimmage yards between rushing
36:59
Speaker 8: and receiving. Again, that would have been third best in
37:02
Speaker 8: the NFL during that stretch. So they've got weapons all
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Speaker 8: around Joe Burrow and it didn't really show up much
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Speaker 8: in Week one, but I think it's bound to eventually.
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Speaker 3: Dan big picture Cincinnati looking at the Bengals, obviously you're
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Speaker 3: in the window when you have the quarterback and you're
37:19
Speaker 3: paying that type of money on the offensive side to
37:22
Speaker 3: the super Bowl windows still there?
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Speaker 4: How long is it there?
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Speaker 3: Is it realistic this season that this Bengals team can
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Speaker 3: make a push in a really good AFC.
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Speaker 8: It's absolutely realistic. And as for the Bengals window, I'll
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Speaker 8: just quote Joe Burrow. I believe it was the year
37:39
Speaker 8: after they went to the Super Bowl and people realized
37:43
Speaker 8: that the rookie contract was going to expire in the
37:45
Speaker 8: next year or two. So somebody asked him about, you know,
37:48
Speaker 8: what is your super Bowl window? And Joe's quote was,
37:51
Speaker 8: the super Bowl window is my entire career, which shows
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Speaker 8: his confidence, and I agree with it. When you have
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Speaker 8: one of those guys, one of the truly elite, top
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Speaker 8: five quarterbacks in the NFL, they elevate everybody on the rosters.
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Speaker 8: So Patrick Mahomes went through this. The Chiefs basically successfully
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Speaker 8: have done what the Bengals are trying to do. Get
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Speaker 8: young and cheap on defense. Once your quarterback is making
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Speaker 8: the big bucks, and obviously the Chiefs keep going to
38:20
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl, so it can be done. I think
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Speaker 8: in Cincinnati it will happen. I'm pretty confident in thinking
38:27
Speaker 8: that Joe Burrow will get back to a Super Bowl
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Speaker 8: at some point, hopefully win the next one, and it's
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Speaker 8: not out of the question this year. The defense doesn't
38:35
Speaker 8: have to be elite, as I said earlier, middle of
38:38
Speaker 8: the pack or better. Probably put Cincinnati in the mix
38:42
Speaker 8: to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: That is Dan Horde, the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals,
38:48
Speaker 3: and Chase and Higgins a really big numbers last year,
38:52
Speaker 3: over seventeen hundred yards for Chase, over nine hundred for
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Speaker 3: Higgins in an injury shortened campaign, and the best duo
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Speaker 3: in the National Football League with one of the top
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks throwing it to them. We're back in a moment.
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Speaker 3: by a fresh from Florida, JP Shadrick with Jeff Logman.
39:43
Speaker 3: We have Tony Vasselli and James Gladstone as well. A
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Speaker 3: little bit earlier, we just heard from Dan Horda the
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Speaker 3: Bengals Radio Network. We've heard all about Joe Burrow and
39:51
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow this and Joe Burrow that today. But the
39:55
Speaker 3: Jaguars quarterback has some improvement that could come as well
39:59
Speaker 3: this week and after a week in which he ran
40:03
Speaker 3: things effectively overall, where can he take a next step
40:07
Speaker 3: as a quarterback. I've think in a lot of areas
40:09
Speaker 3: in the execution and the accuracy, the speed of decision making,
40:16
Speaker 3: all of those things I think can be better from
40:19
Speaker 3: game one to game two, and you would expect it
40:21
Speaker 3: to get better. And look this game, if you look
40:25
Speaker 3: at it from thirty thousand feet, to use James's term,
40:29
Speaker 3: sometimes you know he got in weeds and thirty thousand
40:31
Speaker 3: feet is the people are looking at this game. Look,
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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow, former number one pick quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, former
40:38
Speaker 3: number one overall pick quarterback to back years, how are
40:41
Speaker 3: they going to end up doing? The last time, the
40:43
Speaker 3: only time that they met, Joe Burrow got the best
40:46
Speaker 3: of them. Well, the other time that they met, back
40:49
Speaker 3: at the national championship level, Joe Burrow got the best
40:52
Speaker 3: Trevor as well. Trevor has actually faced the Bengals twice,
40:56
Speaker 3: but it was the backup that played in that game
40:58
Speaker 3: here in Jacksonville. So I think that this Trevor has
41:03
Speaker 3: to be able to raise his level of play because
41:06
Speaker 3: you know, this past game, he was right around sixty
41:08
Speaker 3: one percent, and much like we were talking about with
41:11
Speaker 3: James and Tony that term, there's a lot of meat
41:13
Speaker 3: left on the bone, there was a lot of meat
41:15
Speaker 3: left on the.
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Speaker 4: Bone for Trevor in that ballgame.
41:18
Speaker 3: He's got to find a connection with Brian Thomas Junior,
41:20
Speaker 3: because that's just the type of game that this is
41:22
Speaker 3: going to be with Jamar Chase and t Higgins. And
41:26
Speaker 3: if he can find that connection with Brian, Brian obviously
41:29
Speaker 3: needs to elevate his level of performance as well, and
41:33
Speaker 3: then I think the offense can take that next step.
41:36
Speaker 3: And if you've got you know, because the reason I
41:38
Speaker 3: say this, you look back at the last game with
41:40
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, right, sixty one percent completion rate, solid, you know,
41:46
Speaker 3: managing the offense, but you had zero pressures in the game.
41:50
Speaker 3: I think there might have been one pressure on him
41:52
Speaker 3: the whole game. He got hit officially, I don't think
41:54
Speaker 3: it was actually even a pressure, right, it was one
41:55
Speaker 3: official hit. I think that was on the ground and
41:59
Speaker 3: then no and no sacks and you got two hundred yards.
42:02
Speaker 3: When you've got that on your side, the execution needs
42:07
Speaker 3: to be a tick higher and uh and by fact
42:11
Speaker 3: a couple of ticks higher. I think when you have
42:13
Speaker 3: pressures in the running game may not be as functional
42:15
Speaker 3: as that, then you would expect the performance to be
42:17
Speaker 3: even a little bit higher than what it was. So
42:19
Speaker 3: he's got to he's got to improve his level of performance.
42:23
Speaker 3: Let's come back and get our final thoughts ahead of
42:25
Speaker 3: Week two. The Jaguars and the Bengals coming up this
42:27
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Speaker 3: Final moments of the program, Jags HQ. Glad you're with
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42:54
Speaker 3: us again on Sunday with a noon countdown to kick
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Speaker 3: off ahead of the one o'clock Total Leather High in
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Speaker 3: Cincinnati the Jaguars and the Bengals in Week two, JP
43:04
Speaker 3: Shatterick with Jeff Logoman.
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Speaker 4: And here we go. This is a test. This is
43:10
Speaker 4: a really good football team. As we heard Dan Hordon
43:12
Speaker 4: talk about.
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Speaker 3: They think the window is there for them to be
43:15
Speaker 3: in competition every year for the AFC Championship and a
43:18
Speaker 3: Super Bowl berth if not the Lombardi And that's their standard.
43:22
Speaker 3: That's what They've been to the Super Bowl once with
43:25
Speaker 3: this group, So that's what you're going against this week. Yeah,
43:28
Speaker 3: And I would say that that's their standard that they
43:31
Speaker 3: think they have, but the execution of that standard by
43:35
Speaker 3: them is not at that level. You know, the organization
43:39
Speaker 3: for many years is from many people's opinion around the league,
43:44
Speaker 3: is very frugal with the money. The contract situation with
43:50
Speaker 3: Trey Henderson I think has kind of shown some of
43:52
Speaker 3: that also with Shamar Stewart the first round pick. It's
43:56
Speaker 3: an organization that hasn't spent money from ownership to make
44:03
Speaker 3: the organization as best as possible. Their scouting departments have
44:06
Speaker 3: been notoriously very small. They haven't dedicated a lot of
44:11
Speaker 3: resources to it because, look, it's a family owned business
44:14
Speaker 3: and I get it, But if you want to compete,
44:18
Speaker 3: I think you got to have the commitment. And that's
44:19
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why I appreciate what we have
44:22
Speaker 3: here in Jacksonville shod Con. There's no shortcuts, there's no frugalness.
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Speaker 3: Whatever is needed to win is given to the staff
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Speaker 3: to do the best job they possibly can do real quick.
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Speaker 4: You feel good about the chances this week. I think
44:35
Speaker 4: it's a toss up game. I really do.
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Speaker 3: I think you kept You're catching Cincinnati at the right opportunity,
44:41
Speaker 3: which is early in the season where they haven't really
44:43
Speaker 3: hit a role yet and you're you're feeling confident about
44:46
Speaker 3: the physical way you played in Week one. We'll see
44:48
Speaker 3: if they can go on the road and do it again.
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Speaker 3: For Jeff Logeman, I'm JP Shaddick. I thanks to Joe Fortunato,
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Speaker 3: Brent reeber Our entire crew. Thanks to you for listening
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