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Pass rush, player perspectives & more ahead of Chiefs | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, January 19 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jets Drive Town with John Hooshiers and Bryan
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Speaker 1: Sexty Sexton. W Jangs Drive starts right now. People here,
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Speaker 1: we got play. We got your up, no matter what,
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Speaker 1: we got your back. Let's go. God just play butt back.
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Speaker 1: Hey don't need trip, y'all just gonna play. Well, nar
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Speaker 1: we got we got to bang. You're just gonna play.
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Speaker 1: But now you gotta go fast. I mean, you gotta
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Speaker 1: try to get some chunk yardage. And you almost I'd
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Speaker 1: almost run this like a two minute like you want
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Speaker 1: to try to get twenty one. If you can make
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Speaker 1: a thirty twenty one going into the fourth quarter, I
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Speaker 1: feel like, hey, this game is ours if we get
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Speaker 1: one or two critical stops at the in the in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, first down from the thirty nine and
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Speaker 1: go in a little bit of temple again. Now Trevor
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Speaker 1: looks like he wants to change the play. He's got
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Speaker 1: trips to the right. England's line up on the left,
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Speaker 1: ETN stamps to the left of the quarterback here dropped there.
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Speaker 1: This time Trevor looking fires deep down for gott a
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Speaker 1: bed white ot. But they don't. They end up touch down.
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Speaker 1: There is not a charger anywhere close to him. You
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Speaker 1: talk about chunk play, Frank you nell for chuck play,
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Speaker 1: then you know, there's your chuck play and you just
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Speaker 1: ran was called Hey what call? Jaguars memories that will
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Speaker 1: last a lifetime until perhaps Saturday post game, we'll see
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Speaker 1: what the Jaguars can put together for the Kansas City
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Speaker 1: Chiefs in the divisional round. Those are sounds of the game.
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Speaker 1: You can find those in Jags Wired, you can find
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Speaker 1: those on the website and social media. It just keeps
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Speaker 1: getting better, John every week. Yeah and uh, excuse my
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Speaker 1: voice kind of shot at sure, why but um key
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Speaker 1: in that And this is a little football one oh one.
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Speaker 1: When they were saying what a call, it was Trevor's
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Speaker 1: call that they did not come from the sidelines. He
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Speaker 1: checked to it. Uh, talking to his A Jones and
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Speaker 1: a couple of players this week, that was huge. It
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Speaker 1: was not an easy call to get to and it
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Speaker 1: shows the maturation of young quarterback because in that situation
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Speaker 1: to see the defense, it was not a play they
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Speaker 1: necessarily head even in the book to check to. Big
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Speaker 1: time stuff there. We'll have a lot of time in
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Speaker 1: the off season to talk about that. Now, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about Kansas City and focus on Saturday night before we
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Speaker 1: get started with big things. It's interesting because I like you.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're out and about your at public, Steward Gate,
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Speaker 1: wherever you are, and people will say, hey, will they win?
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Speaker 1: People don't talk to me, but but yes, you have
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Speaker 1: friends and family and people that want to say will
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Speaker 1: they win? I said, you're asking the wrong question. The
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Speaker 1: question is can they win? Right against the number one seed,
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Speaker 1: more than a touchdown favorite, who have in in this
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Speaker 1: game and won this game four straight yours. The question
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Speaker 1: isn't will, it's can. If we knew whether they would
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Speaker 1: or they wouldn't, you don't play the game can they win?
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Speaker 1: And here's my response, and that is put yourself into
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Speaker 1: position with five minutes left to play to be close
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Speaker 1: and what we saw last week against Kansas City or
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Speaker 1: against the Chargers. Yeah, they can win yet, and they
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Speaker 1: absolutely can win for a number of reasons. When Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence is hot, he's as good as anybody, including Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that he plays at that level
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Speaker 1: all the time. He's not there yet. Well there's that
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Speaker 1: word consistency. But when he plays at that level he
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Speaker 1: did in the second half. You can't play better quarterback
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Speaker 1: than he did. They also have receivers who can compliment it,
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Speaker 1: and they have a pass rush they can get to
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Put all those things together at the right time,
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Speaker 1: you can get past this team and be him. All right,
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Speaker 1: So let's jump right into big things here on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: Jack's coming up against the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on
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Speaker 1: Saturday for thirty is the kick off on NBC Sports
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Speaker 1: and Big Thing one. We're here. You know, Look, the
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Speaker 1: house money argument's gone on the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: and certainly the Jaguars are a team that's ahead of
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Speaker 1: schedule from what most of us thought they would be
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Speaker 1: able to accomplish in year number one. That's not what
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Speaker 1: the head coach is thinking. He can't waste this opportunity.
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Speaker 1: You never know how many opportunities you get to go back,
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Speaker 1: even though you might look at it with Trevor Lawreds
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Speaker 1: and say, we'll be in this thing every single year.
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Speaker 1: That's the way the coach is approaching this. Whether it's
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Speaker 1: our money or house money, Um, we're here, and it's
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Speaker 1: a credit to those players in the locker room and
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Speaker 1: the coach and staff for you know, believing in each other,
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Speaker 1: obviously working hard. Um, what we've done down the stretch,
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Speaker 1: you know, regardless of the mishaps, we're here, you know,
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Speaker 1: And and UM, you know I try to block out
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Speaker 1: the best I can with the team. You just block
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Speaker 1: out the noise, You block out the negativity, you block
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Speaker 1: out whether it's lack of respect or whatever. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have a young quarterback or whatever it might be. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're one of four in the a f
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Speaker 1: C left and that says a lot. Says a lot
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Speaker 1: about these guys, and um, you know we're excited for
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Speaker 1: the opportunity. Big thing too. And you saw this in
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Speaker 1: that opening clip of sounds of the game where Roy
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Speaker 1: Robertson Harris was talking to the offensive line and Trevor saying, look,
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Speaker 1: we got your back. And Mike Caldweller this week said
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Speaker 1: it matters who's on the other side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: It matters. And they know what they've got. Every time
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Speaker 1: the defense goes out of the field, they know they've
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Speaker 1: got a quarterback on the sideline who, if they give
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Speaker 1: the ball back to him, gives them a chance to win.
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Speaker 1: When you have a guy that you believe in as
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Speaker 1: a defense, it matters to you. And when you're down
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Speaker 1: twenty seven and you still believe you can win because
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Speaker 1: you know who you have on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the ball, it matters. And that's the big point because
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Speaker 1: there was no hanging your head, there was nobody worrying
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Speaker 1: about anything. It was to get a stop, get the
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Speaker 1: ball back to the offense, get another stop, to get
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Speaker 1: the ball back to the offense. Because of who we
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Speaker 1: know we have on the other side. And that's that's
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Speaker 1: something that's this year. It's offensive build us out. A
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Speaker 1: bunch of times. We've helped him out. It's a true team.
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Speaker 1: That's that's rolling right now. And finally, big thing three.
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Speaker 1: The forecast has changed a bit. On Monday. It was
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Speaker 1: going to be almost identical to the weather here last
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. High during the day of up a low
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Speaker 1: somewhere near thirty. Now we're talking about some snow and
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Speaker 1: that brings a different element to this Bowl game. And
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor says, these guys have it figured out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's certainly something we talked about. Anytime you're gonna play
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Speaker 1: the elements with your guys, you address it. We talked
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Speaker 1: about it. We do whatever we can emphasize ball security, UM,
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Speaker 1: and really that's just going through our techniques and fundamentals,
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Speaker 1: and then within the game you kind of assess how
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Speaker 1: the surfaces, how guys are holding up with maybe things
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Speaker 1: you want to do UM. One of the I know
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Speaker 1: one time we talked about the weather here. We talks
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Speaker 1: about if there's actually weather falling from the sky, sometimes
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Speaker 1: that will change even your thoughts on some of the
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Speaker 1: ball handling things you're having your game plan just because
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Speaker 1: the ball gets wet or the rain coming down, your
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Speaker 1: gloves get wet, different things. So it's kind of assessing
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Speaker 1: what the field is like, the conditions are like within
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Speaker 1: the game of if you're gonna feature some things or not,
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Speaker 1: and those are big things. Just denote on the weather.
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Speaker 1: Being a native of Kansas City, I tell you that's
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Speaker 1: not the same snow they are get in Chicago or
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Speaker 1: Cleveland or Buffalo. If you've got snow, it'll be light,
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Speaker 1: not the the heavy, wet stuff that comes off the lake.
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Speaker 1: So not sure how much they're talking about at this point,
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Speaker 1: but it does appear that it is a much stronger
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Speaker 1: probability than it was earlier in the week. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know necessarily that that effects or hurts the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars that much. I don't know that it hurts teams
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Speaker 1: as much as it used to, because most teams are
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Speaker 1: built to throw now, uh, with the running game as
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Speaker 1: a compliment. In the old days, you would say, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying can's it. He doesn't have a little
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Speaker 1: bit of an edge because they've played in it before.
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Speaker 1: But in the old days, teams used to really build
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Speaker 1: their teams to run. In the Northeast. Football has has
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Speaker 1: changed a lot where that's not as big as an
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Speaker 1: edge of the used. But Dan Marino always said, if
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Speaker 1: it's snow and I'm throwing, meaning they didn't think they'd
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Speaker 1: be able to run the ball as effectively as long
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Speaker 1: as there was no right go throw for it. So um,
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Speaker 1: watch for it. It'll it'll make one thing for sure. Look,
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Speaker 1: the ratings are going to be off the charts for
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Speaker 1: this game anyway they always are. But snow tends to
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Speaker 1: bring in even the casual viewer who finds some drama
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Speaker 1: in that. Let's go to my cold well and number two.
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Speaker 1: Because my cold Well is not a man who will
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Speaker 1: stand at the microphone and go on and on and on.
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Speaker 1: You ask him a question. He will tell you in
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Speaker 1: a few words possible exactly what he thinks. Right, He's
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Speaker 1: not loquacious like John. So the flip side of this
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Speaker 1: is this was his longest answer of the year. I
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Speaker 1: mean I just took a piece of it and it
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Speaker 1: was thirty seven seconds long. And the reason that I
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Speaker 1: bring that up is because it's significant for the fact
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Speaker 1: that he is the defensive coordinator talking about the value
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Speaker 1: to the quarterback and what the quarterback means to the defense. UM,
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Speaker 1: whether it's our money or house money, we're here was
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Speaker 1: the best quote of the week. Called Wells was the
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Speaker 1: second UM and called Wells was really the most telling
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Speaker 1: because it did show how this team believes and how
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Speaker 1: this defense believes in Trevor Lawrence. UM. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a reason they've been able to come back, not just
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Speaker 1: that they have the ability offensively come back, but that
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Speaker 1: there's this belief. We've talked all you about the defense's
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Speaker 1: ability to even when it looks like they are out
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Speaker 1: of it, to make big play after big play, even
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Speaker 1: when they've given up points. That mentality, I think has
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Speaker 1: been the key to this five game stretch at home.
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Speaker 1: Coming back the way they have and I have to
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Speaker 1: bring it up because Roy Robertson Harris is not a
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Speaker 1: guy who seeks the micro phone. Right. He's again, he's
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Speaker 1: like his his defensive coordinator. He'll tell you what he
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Speaker 1: thinks about the question you asked. But he's not loquacious,
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Speaker 1: not going to go on and on and on like
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Speaker 1: someone we know. Um, he's had a couple of terrific
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Speaker 1: games in a row, and he got a little love
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Speaker 1: from Peter King in his column on Monday. But Ray
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Speaker 1: Robertson Harris has been dominant and when you look at
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Speaker 1: him in the locker room, he is the biggest of
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Speaker 1: the defensive lineman and looks like he has the capacity
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Speaker 1: to be a dominant player. And in the games that
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Speaker 1: have mattered the most, right Tennessee and the Chargers, he
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Speaker 1: has been a dominant force. And I think Caldwell said
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Speaker 1: he has taken the role that Smooth was taken for
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Speaker 1: a while. Um, that sack that you maybe don't even expect,
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Speaker 1: not coming from the outside effort, sack up the middle. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He and Josh Allen. I'm not trying to take away
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Speaker 1: from Roy Robinson Harris this time, but Josh Allen has
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Speaker 1: all really come on in the last six games. I
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Speaker 1: think one has to do with the other. Josh Allen,
11:05
Speaker 1: by the way, had a sack added yesterday when they
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Speaker 1: reviewed the tape. I'm assuming it's the one that shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have been taken away from and where he forced to
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Speaker 1: fumble um. So he's got five stacks in the last
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Speaker 1: six five sacks in the last six games. So both
11:19
Speaker 1: of those guys, you need more than one player up
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Speaker 1: front disrupting. Right now, they have at least two with
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Speaker 1: apologies to arden Key, who may be as disruptive as
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Speaker 1: any of them, and they've got they have a pass rush.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, in certain situations on Saturday, if the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs let the Jaguars get ahead of him, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: pass rush can give a team trouble when it matters.
11:42
Speaker 1: Just to note on that before we go to break,
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Speaker 1: the pass rush against the quarterback like Pat Mahomes has
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Speaker 1: to be so disciplined. You have to know your rushing lane.
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Speaker 1: You have to keep him in the pocket. We saw
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Speaker 1: him get out and run for nineteen yards and a
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Speaker 1: critical third down at a moment in the third quarter
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Speaker 1: last time in Week ten. You've got to play such
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Speaker 1: disciplined football. You can rush, and they will, and you've
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Speaker 1: got to get home with four more often than not
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Speaker 1: because you need the extra help and coverage. You don't
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Speaker 1: think of mahomes Is being that scrambler like you would
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Speaker 1: a Lamar Jackson. Jalen Hurts. He's sneaky good at He's
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Speaker 1: probably better than those guys at And I say that
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Speaker 1: because I think he's the best in the league right
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Speaker 1: now at scrambling with eyes down field to create passing opportunities.
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Speaker 1: He can run too, but he would rather get right
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Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, use what he's done in
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Speaker 1: the pocket and find a guy downfield. I thought on
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Speaker 1: that Herbert's pretty good at it. Tude and the Jaguars
12:41
Speaker 1: with a couple of exceptions, because these guys are going
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Speaker 1: to get out every now and then did a pretty
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Speaker 1: good job against him on that. Roy robertson Harris as
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Speaker 1: a reason. And if you're going to contain guys in
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Speaker 1: the pocket, you can't just have rush coming from edge.
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Speaker 1: You have to have guys in the middle who are
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Speaker 1: sort of gobbling up space where they would normal they
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Speaker 1: run or Robinson Harris will be big on Saturday, all right.
13:03
Speaker 1: Those are big things. And when we return, we'll go
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Speaker 1: around the locker room give you a feel for what
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Speaker 1: the guys were saying the last couple of days. Hey,
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Speaker 1: with you here on a Thursday morning from t I
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Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon, and by the way, you have to
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Speaker 1: able to follow clicks and find your way to where
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Speaker 1: you need to go. There's also a send off tomorrow morning,
14:04
Speaker 1: and there's information all over social media and the website
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Speaker 1: again about the details for the send off. So let's
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Speaker 1: go into the locker room and give you sense what
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Speaker 1: the guys were saying yesterday. And Christian Kirk a guy
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Speaker 1: who's such a pro. I mean, when you hear the
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Speaker 1: term pros pro, you're talking about a guy like Christian
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Speaker 1: Kirk who just understands the nuances of both on the
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Speaker 1: field and off. So yesterday he was talking about complementary football,
14:29
Speaker 1: coming out and playing complimentary football, and uh, you know
14:33
Speaker 1: that's obviously helped contribute to us getting to that point. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like, you know, especially in these these
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Speaker 1: bigger games and um, you know, playing with our season
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Speaker 1: on the line, you know, we haven't done it as
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Speaker 1: much and I think this is a perfect opportunity to
14:46
Speaker 1: get back to doing that. Um. But the thing is
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Speaker 1: that we've done it before. Um, we know what it takes,
14:50
Speaker 1: we know what it looks like. So it's gotten us here.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we're definitely looking to to come out
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Speaker 1: and do that this week. You know, John, complimentary football,
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Speaker 1: the offense and defense, you know, working together, it's easy
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Speaker 1: need to talk about, it's much more difficult to do.
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Speaker 1: But truthfully, over the six game winning streak. It's the
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Speaker 1: best stretch of complimentary football we've seen. Yeah, I've never
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Speaker 1: quite understood the term. To me, complimentary football. If the
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Speaker 1: offense gets I mean, if defense gets stopped in the
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Speaker 1: offense scores, it's complementary football. If the defense gets stopped
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Speaker 1: the offense doesn't score, then on bad teams, then one
15:22
Speaker 1: side of the ball is mad at the other. But
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Speaker 1: I get your point. You you get a turnover, you
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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. The Jaguars, whatever the term means. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars certainly didn't do it in Kansas City in
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Speaker 1: Week ten, which is why they lost. The defense got
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Speaker 1: them opportunities, did not play poorly at all against a
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Speaker 1: good Chiefs team, and the Jaguars offense could not take
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Speaker 1: advantage of special teams on the on side kick and
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Speaker 1: then couldn't take advantage of turnovers later. So that was uncomplimentary. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me give you a definition of complimentary football for
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Speaker 1: Saturday night at Arrowhead Stadium. Don't keep your defense on
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Speaker 1: the field for long stretches of the football game. In
16:00
Speaker 1: other words, go out there put together some drives. And
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have been really good at putting together ten
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Speaker 1: plus play drives, keep my homes on the sideline, keep
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Speaker 1: your defense on the sideline a little bit rested if
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Speaker 1: you will and be able to possess the ball. Look,
16:14
Speaker 1: we talked yesterday about being able to fire the ball
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Speaker 1: down the field, Letter Rip I said, and I believe
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do some of that. But when
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Speaker 1: you do have an opportunity to put together a drive
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Speaker 1: and keep my homes off the field, or better than that,
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Speaker 1: you get a three and out, my homes comes and scores.
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Speaker 1: You can't go three and out again. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: complimentary football for you right there, understanding the circumstances. And
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Speaker 1: that's what Christian perk Kirk said. They had done a
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Speaker 1: lot better job of doing all right, So Art and
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Speaker 1: Keys a guy John you mentioned who has had an
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Speaker 1: impact over this six game winning streak and brought the
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Speaker 1: past rush. They understand on the defensive side that the
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Speaker 1: strong pass rush is required and the guys up front.
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Speaker 1: I want to play complimentary football for the guys in
16:53
Speaker 1: the back end, just you know, first time being around
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Speaker 1: each other, then just for having the first decoordinator, just
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. We just finally found who we are
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Speaker 1: as a defense, as far as rusting the passing, and
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the phone man front. We we with Casey.
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Speaker 1: We gotta come alive, the phone man front. We gotta
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Speaker 1: come alive because them got me helping the back end
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Speaker 1: the cover. So we gotta rust folks. We gotta come
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Speaker 1: with some five. We gotta come with some three, just
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Speaker 1: different different We gotta throw different things that pat from
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Speaker 1: my home so we can get turned overs and hit him. Yeah,
17:29
Speaker 1: we talked all the time about Russian cover right complimentary terms.
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Speaker 1: You you have to be able to have both. You
17:35
Speaker 1: can't have a breakdown in either. But I thought it
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Speaker 1: was telling that Arden was in the locker room talking
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Speaker 1: about understanding the caliber of receivers that they're facing, the
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Speaker 1: speed that makes it very difficult to match up. They've
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Speaker 1: got size and Marquez val that's scandling. Uh, they've got
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Speaker 1: the tight end obviously, and Travis Kelsey, who's at the
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Speaker 1: top of the league. So it sounds like the guys
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Speaker 1: up front are taking it on their own shoulders, knowing
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Speaker 1: they've gotta help the back end. Well, yeah, you have
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Speaker 1: to get home with four against a guy like Mahomes,
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Speaker 1: and you have to as you mentioned earlier, you have
18:05
Speaker 1: to rush smart because you can't let him out. Uh.
18:09
Speaker 1: Arden Key is somebody I'll talk about later in the show,
18:10
Speaker 1: so I want to talk too much about that. But
18:12
Speaker 1: to me, the Jaguars pass rush getting better in big
18:17
Speaker 1: situations late in the season is a huge reason they
18:20
Speaker 1: have a chance if they can get a lead late.
18:23
Speaker 1: People don't think of this is a great pass rushing team,
18:26
Speaker 1: but when teams make runs in the playoffs. It's rare
18:32
Speaker 1: for teams to make a run in the playoffs unless
18:34
Speaker 1: their pass rush is playing well when it matters, and
18:37
Speaker 1: the Jaguars pass rush has done that in the last
18:39
Speaker 1: six weeks. All Right, we'll stay with the complimentary theme here.
18:42
Speaker 1: And Evan Ingram was talking about how the offense feels
18:47
Speaker 1: the need to make sure that they don't put the
18:50
Speaker 1: defense in a bad situation. It's common knowledge that you know, Phil,
18:54
Speaker 1: those are going to be the same. Uh you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: trust me, our defense is a great defense and they're
18:58
Speaker 1: gonna go out and fighting. They played their butts off
19:01
Speaker 1: last time, the last time we played them, so um,
19:03
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna have to help them out. We're
19:04
Speaker 1: gonna have to help them out a lot because I
19:05
Speaker 1: know they're gonna make play so um and scoring touchdowns
19:09
Speaker 1: you know, are gonna put them on bare positions to
19:12
Speaker 1: so John. At one point this season, the Jaguars were
19:14
Speaker 1: a poor red zone football team. They scored fewer touchdowns
19:19
Speaker 1: than field goals, and they missed opportunities with turnovers and
19:22
Speaker 1: failed fourth down opportunities. Where are they now as we
19:25
Speaker 1: come towards the end of the season. I don't know
19:27
Speaker 1: where they are statistically. Um. No, I'm asking for your
19:29
Speaker 1: perspective right well, um, but the eye test tells you
19:36
Speaker 1: that when they are on, they are really good. And
19:40
Speaker 1: I think that is because they have four guys in
19:42
Speaker 1: the red zone and that's not even fair. Five guys
19:47
Speaker 1: in the red zone, including E T N who all
19:50
Speaker 1: scared defenses. Um. And it's even at the point where
19:53
Speaker 1: Trevor when it's he can take off and run in
19:58
Speaker 1: the red zones. You have a lot of options in
19:59
Speaker 1: the red zone when it's going well, They're really good
20:03
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Um. And that's why you can
20:06
Speaker 1: see a scenario on Saturday where they get hot and
20:10
Speaker 1: they're tough to stop for a stretch where they go
20:14
Speaker 1: get ahead of Kansas City. I keep I keep beating
20:16
Speaker 1: that drum, but I think that's their formula. UM. Doug
20:19
Speaker 1: Peterson's play calling has made them really good in the
20:21
Speaker 1: red zone. Trevor Lawrence is really good with short timing
20:26
Speaker 1: passes right now, so that makes them good in the
20:28
Speaker 1: red zone. And the fact that they have so many
20:31
Speaker 1: different options obviously is makes them really tough to cover.
20:35
Speaker 1: And they have good route runners, uh Marvin Jones Christian
20:38
Speaker 1: Kirk Marvin Jones route on his touchdown here in the
20:42
Speaker 1: third quarter last week. It's hard to be as consistently
20:46
Speaker 1: open in the red zone as Marvin and Christian. I
20:50
Speaker 1: then I not all the time. It's hard down there,
20:54
Speaker 1: but there are plays this year where they are wide
20:56
Speaker 1: open or really good timing plays where they're just enough
21:02
Speaker 1: open where it's the route, and that's why they're better.
21:07
Speaker 1: They still are a young team, so they've gone through
21:09
Speaker 1: enough stretches where they don't rank highly. But when they're good,
21:11
Speaker 1: they're really good. Alright, final look around the locker room.
21:14
Speaker 1: Let's check in with Andre Cisco. The Jaguar is young
21:17
Speaker 1: safety who understands that Pat Mahomes outside the pocket can
21:22
Speaker 1: stress you out. It's extremely tough. I mean, it's the
21:27
Speaker 1: harder thing to account for. You know, you could draw
21:29
Speaker 1: all the routes and massing up and many many times
21:31
Speaker 1: you want, but once he gets outside of the pocket,
21:33
Speaker 1: you know you can't account for. You know what type
21:34
Speaker 1: of routes we're gonna be running scrambled drill. So you
21:36
Speaker 1: know you got to be discipline with your eyes and
21:38
Speaker 1: just understand that. You know, you almost got to cover
21:40
Speaker 1: two plays in one some songs. He's gonna be a
21:42
Speaker 1: critical factor in the middle of the field because even
21:45
Speaker 1: though he may not have the sole responsibility for where
21:49
Speaker 1: that tight end is, you know he's gonna be a
21:51
Speaker 1: clean up guy. He's gonna be looking for where eight
21:53
Speaker 1: seven is roaming well. And he was also key in
21:57
Speaker 1: the last game and a couple of hits the Kansas
21:58
Speaker 1: City fans steel mad about. I'm not talking about that.
22:01
Speaker 1: He had an interception too, and uh, he's key because
22:06
Speaker 1: in this game, I just really think the Jaguars defense
22:10
Speaker 1: is cut out to play this kind of a game
22:12
Speaker 1: because you're gonna give up points and they're not the
22:16
Speaker 1: kind of defense some defenses played Kansas City and you
22:20
Speaker 1: come off the field, I see what the Colts all
22:21
Speaker 1: the time, they can feel mad at each other because
22:23
Speaker 1: they gave up points, not realizing that you're gonna give
22:25
Speaker 1: up some points to this team. But they keep playing
22:28
Speaker 1: and they create turnovers that as Cisco is a guy
22:31
Speaker 1: who very conceivable Kansas City, you know, scores twice on
22:35
Speaker 1: his first two possessions, Um, Jags are within seven, and
22:40
Speaker 1: then on the third he gets a pick. You know,
22:42
Speaker 1: he's that kind of a guy. Um, and then all
22:45
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're back in it. Even though the
22:47
Speaker 1: Chiefs played well. I think it's gonna be that kind
22:49
Speaker 1: of a game. We've all seen Cisco, a safety who's
22:52
Speaker 1: a ball hawk, can loom really large in this kind
22:54
Speaker 1: of a game. Just ques three interceptions on the season,
22:57
Speaker 1: but it's been a few weeks since we've seen him
22:58
Speaker 1: get one. Perhaps he it have more too. He's around
23:01
Speaker 1: it a lot, and it was at Syracuse, which is
23:03
Speaker 1: why he was so highly regarded coming out Alright, time
23:06
Speaker 1: for a pondering from across the pond. This is a
23:09
Speaker 1: new segment that we introduced to you last week engaging
23:12
Speaker 1: the Jags fans in the UK, and so this week
23:15
Speaker 1: we have a single one from Tartan teal Um and
23:19
Speaker 1: this is what do the Jags need to do differently
23:22
Speaker 1: from week ten John to get the result needed to
23:26
Speaker 1: go forward. Jamie at Tartan teal is the gentleman or
23:30
Speaker 1: the lady? I guess who was sent that question? Um.
23:33
Speaker 1: I think the most obvious is when you have opportunities,
23:38
Speaker 1: and they will have opportunities in most playoff games in
23:42
Speaker 1: the NFL. Even when it doesn't go well for a team,
23:45
Speaker 1: you can look back in the first half and look
23:47
Speaker 1: back at the situations say if we take advantage of that,
23:50
Speaker 1: then we probably win. In the playoffs when everything's magnified.
23:53
Speaker 1: When you don't take advantage of those is when it
23:55
Speaker 1: can get away from you. They're gonna have opportunities, much
23:58
Speaker 1: like they did in week ten. You have to score
24:03
Speaker 1: touchdowns and I think Evan Ingram said it best score
24:06
Speaker 1: touchdowns instead of field goals, and don't miss the field
24:08
Speaker 1: goals that you have. You know they had the ball
24:13
Speaker 1: inside the Chiefs fit or inside the fifty seven times
24:16
Speaker 1: in November scored three up. Yeah, Well you can't. I mean,
24:20
Speaker 1: if if that's a stat on Saturday, then we'll be
24:24
Speaker 1: packing up and doing wrap up shows next week. You. Um,
24:26
Speaker 1: from my perspective, you have to start early and then
24:29
Speaker 1: you have to stay with him, right, If they scored
24:31
Speaker 1: twenty seven into the fourth quarter, you better scored twenty
24:33
Speaker 1: seven into the fourth quarter. You've got to put yourself
24:35
Speaker 1: in a position with five minutes to play, just like
24:38
Speaker 1: last week, where you've got a chance to win Kansas City.
24:41
Speaker 1: As we saw last year in the divisional round against Buffalo,
24:44
Speaker 1: they came out and with thirteen seconds off, the Bills
24:47
Speaker 1: went to their sideline, John You remember that they thought
24:49
Speaker 1: they'd want it right, there's only thirteen seconds left, Pat
24:53
Speaker 1: Mahomes to place down the field. Touchdown tied the game
24:56
Speaker 1: senate to over time. They won. Now, they don't have
24:59
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill this year, but they still have speed and
25:01
Speaker 1: they still have my Homes and Kelsey. So you've got
25:03
Speaker 1: to be in a position to claim a win with
25:06
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the game. Remember the Titans game
25:09
Speaker 1: up there, when the Titans felt in control of that
25:13
Speaker 1: game after the first series, after the second series, and
25:17
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it turned and the Jaguars
25:22
Speaker 1: offense was in this phase against a pretty good defense.
25:25
Speaker 1: It was injured, but still good pass rush. All of
25:28
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Jaguars offense is in a phase where
25:31
Speaker 1: they're scoring and it's all of a sudden, they're up
25:34
Speaker 1: by fourteen. I don't know that happens in the first half.
25:37
Speaker 1: That's that's the field that I'm talking about. You get
25:41
Speaker 1: to a point in this game where you stay close,
25:43
Speaker 1: stay close. This offense is capable of shock and awe
25:48
Speaker 1: tactics if you will, and all of a sudden the
25:50
Speaker 1: other team looks at and says, how are we down?
25:53
Speaker 1: And then it's a time thing where your pass rush
25:57
Speaker 1: can take over. I keep pouting on that. That to
26:01
Speaker 1: me is where the Jaguars can be a really strong,
26:04
Speaker 1: dangerous team no matter who they play. That's where they
26:07
Speaker 1: con flex. So we'll see if it happens. And thanks
26:10
Speaker 1: to Jamie at Tartan Teal with this week's ponder from
26:13
Speaker 1: Ponder This from across the Pond and the good folks
26:16
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26:54
Speaker 1: time in the program for he will, he won't, he
26:57
Speaker 1: might and you're going with pardon yeah. Uh. Or has
27:01
Speaker 1: become one of my favorite players on this team. Uh,
27:04
Speaker 1: not only because I I love that he seems to
27:09
Speaker 1: love to play and not every player loves it the
27:14
Speaker 1: same way. But you can just tell this guy lives
27:17
Speaker 1: to be on the football field, so he will be
27:20
Speaker 1: ready for this game. I've not seen a game yet
27:23
Speaker 1: this year, and you know, so he won't, he won't disappear. Uh.
27:28
Speaker 1: He's a guy who seems to play for these moments,
27:32
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to care that he's He doesn't get all
27:36
Speaker 1: the notoriety of everybody else. You need guys to make
27:41
Speaker 1: runs like this. You need guys who you don't think
27:45
Speaker 1: about that much, or who the media doesn't think about
27:47
Speaker 1: the fans and I think about to play big and boys.
27:51
Speaker 1: He been that and to me, he might be He
27:54
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars pass rush, which is a subtly and
27:59
Speaker 1: quietly good group, might be the key to this thing
28:01
Speaker 1: at some point if they win. I would expect the
28:07
Speaker 1: last seven or eight minutes of the game to be stressful,
28:11
Speaker 1: but to have this pass rush with arden Key doing
28:14
Speaker 1: what he does, which is be all over the place,
28:15
Speaker 1: be pumping up teammates, Ian alsaw the celebration on the
28:19
Speaker 1: Josh Altum' return. He's the spirit of this defense to me,
28:23
Speaker 1: if you will, he might wind up being that playmaker
28:27
Speaker 1: at the end of the game that you have to
28:29
Speaker 1: have in these big situations. You know. And a guy
28:31
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned talking about the past rush this entire
28:33
Speaker 1: show is the number one overall pick in Trayvon Walker,
28:36
Speaker 1: who has gotten close in recent week. He forced some
28:40
Speaker 1: things last week. Everybody gave him a lot of grief
28:44
Speaker 1: about the not great call. I thought on the that
28:47
Speaker 1: was um But more and more, Trayvon is not necessarily
28:52
Speaker 1: getting home. But when you watch plays, there are plays
28:57
Speaker 1: where he is forcing the quarterback to do things doesn't
29:00
Speaker 1: want to do. Unfortunately, the offensive line to adjust their
29:02
Speaker 1: pass blocking. Yeah. So uh, he's making an impact. Yeah,
29:06
Speaker 1: four or five guys all of a sudden, We've mentioned
29:08
Speaker 1: four or five guys that are playing well up front. Again,
29:11
Speaker 1: runs like this don't happen unless the defensive line is
29:17
Speaker 1: playing well enough for us to have conversations like this.
29:20
Speaker 1: Defensive line, linebacker, side line as well. All right, So
29:23
Speaker 1: for my he will, he won't, he might. I'm going
29:25
Speaker 1: with Travis ey t N and I think he will
29:27
Speaker 1: be the X factor. And you could argue that he
29:29
Speaker 1: was last Saturday night with the twenty five yard run
29:33
Speaker 1: on fourth down and one. But I'm telling you, you
29:36
Speaker 1: see those receivers and at one point the Jaguars had
29:39
Speaker 1: scored four consecutive touchdowns on passes to Marvin Jones, Za Jones,
29:43
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, Evan Ingram. He's the guy who's going to
29:46
Speaker 1: get into the end zone this week and be the
29:48
Speaker 1: difference maker. He will not find this moment too big
29:52
Speaker 1: for him. In other words, he won't fumble the ball,
29:54
Speaker 1: he won't make the little mistakes that we've seen from
29:57
Speaker 1: him throughout the course of it. I think he's ready
29:58
Speaker 1: to rise to the occasion and he might score the
30:02
Speaker 1: game winner. He might be that guy John who gets
30:05
Speaker 1: free in the fourth quarter with that burst of speed
30:09
Speaker 1: that we have seen throughout the course of the season,
30:11
Speaker 1: maybe not as consistently we as we had liked, But
30:15
Speaker 1: I think he might be that guy who has a
30:17
Speaker 1: forty five or a fifty five yard run somewhere between
30:21
Speaker 1: the second and third quarter that puts the Jaguars in
30:23
Speaker 1: a position to win the game. And I go back
30:25
Speaker 1: all the way to nineties six, right, and the and
30:28
Speaker 1: and the division round game that year was in Denver,
30:30
Speaker 1: and the Jags fell down thirteen sorry, twelve to nothing
30:33
Speaker 1: and they led thirteen twelve and a half, and it
30:35
Speaker 1: was Keenan McCardell who made a thirty one year a
30:37
Speaker 1: touchdown grab in the third quarter that pushed the lead out. Yeah,
30:41
Speaker 1: maybe the most underrated playing twelve, right, And that gave
30:45
Speaker 1: them a nice little cushion because they needed it because
30:48
Speaker 1: Elway had that come from behind ability, just like Mahomes.
30:52
Speaker 1: I just sense that the guy who's going to be
30:53
Speaker 1: that might be Travis e t Yeah. Anyway, we just
30:56
Speaker 1: talked about too um and in Ingram Scors a touchdown,
31:02
Speaker 1: Marvin Jenens scorys a touchdown the next drive, z John
31:05
Speaker 1: scors touchdown the next drive, Christian Kirk scores touchdown the
31:08
Speaker 1: next drive, Trevor Lawrence goes over the top for essentially
31:12
Speaker 1: a touchdown after that, and then Travis et N has
31:16
Speaker 1: the huge play in the last one. That's six key
31:19
Speaker 1: plays by six different players. That's Doug Peterson offense. If
31:23
Speaker 1: you think about Philly back then, who was their start? Well, really,
31:26
Speaker 1: what you can have a bunch of guys was a
31:29
Speaker 1: good part of that. That's how he plays offense when
31:32
Speaker 1: he's got it really going well. E t n Um,
31:37
Speaker 1: I know we started off topic a little bit. The
31:40
Speaker 1: twenty five yard run. Well, look, when you look back
31:44
Speaker 1: on it looks very easy. It was easy because he's
31:47
Speaker 1: really fast. If if he's a slower footed back, uh,
31:53
Speaker 1: you might be scrambling to get to that mark first
31:56
Speaker 1: down mark. It was a great call, don't get me wrong,
31:58
Speaker 1: but it don't forget how special that speed was to
32:03
Speaker 1: get around the edge division, no one where to run
32:05
Speaker 1: on that. It was not as easy a play. When
32:09
Speaker 1: you first looked at it, you thought, well, easy run
32:11
Speaker 1: for E. T. N to get twenty five. Not for me,
32:14
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been. And you're a long strider, and
32:18
Speaker 1: you're a long strider with those long legs. All right,
32:20
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll wrap up this show, get
32:23
Speaker 1: you set for Saturday night in Kansas City with Sunday's
32:26
Speaker 1: Headlines Today. All right, we've reached the time and Jags
32:40
Speaker 1: Drive time on a Thursday where we like to look ahead,
32:43
Speaker 1: maybe offer a little prediction. We call it Monday's Headlines
32:46
Speaker 1: Today during the regular season, but Saturday game precipitates the
32:49
Speaker 1: changed to Sunday's Headlines Today. And John, if you're looking
32:53
Speaker 1: into the future that crystal ball over there, what do
32:55
Speaker 1: you think the headline might read on Sunday morning, Sitney,
33:00
Speaker 1: great headline because it could probably go both ways. That
33:03
Speaker 1: makes it a great headline. By the way, I'm gonna
33:05
Speaker 1: say what a ride, um, because I think there's a
33:09
Speaker 1: path to Jaguar's winning. As somebody has been around the
33:12
Speaker 1: league for a long time, I can't rightly predict them
33:15
Speaker 1: to win this because it is a tough task to
33:18
Speaker 1: go beat a team that is used to playing in
33:20
Speaker 1: this game. They would they it's unlikely that they fold
33:25
Speaker 1: under pressure. They're playing at home. They have won this
33:29
Speaker 1: game four years in a row, so it's tough. I
33:32
Speaker 1: can't predict the Jaguars to win. So I think the headline,
33:35
Speaker 1: what a ride Um, what a right? I mean it,
33:39
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, what a season, what a two months?
33:44
Speaker 1: The unexpected nature of it all that we'll be talking
33:46
Speaker 1: about this when we retire and you're sitting in your
33:50
Speaker 1: old folks home with the beach and I'm homeless. I'll
33:55
Speaker 1: come by and and we'll talk about this season as
34:01
Speaker 1: as the special ones, even if they win Super Bowls,
34:04
Speaker 1: that will remember this one. So what a ride. But
34:07
Speaker 1: also I don't necessarily think the ride has to be over.
34:11
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not picking this where I feel like
34:13
Speaker 1: it's a lock for the Chiefs. I think that always
34:15
Speaker 1: have a real chance to win this game. All right, Uh,
34:18
Speaker 1: here's mine, Air Apparent and this one can go either way, right, Um.
34:23
Speaker 1: But I think, no matter what happens, I think Trevor
34:26
Speaker 1: Lawrence has burst onto the scene, and in this quarterback league,
34:30
Speaker 1: I believe that people will look and say, oh, they've
34:34
Speaker 1: got something there. We don't want to see that team.
34:38
Speaker 1: Although the Chiefs, the Bengals, the Chargers to some degree,
34:43
Speaker 1: the Ravens have these hot young quarterbacks. If they win,
34:47
Speaker 1: obviously the franchisees the Air Apparent right ready to take
34:51
Speaker 1: that spot in the a f C championship game that
34:53
Speaker 1: has belonged to the Chiefs for the last four years.
34:56
Speaker 1: But if they don't win, I think it will be
34:59
Speaker 1: apparent that Trevor Lawrence is ready to put his name
35:02
Speaker 1: up there. Yeah. I uh, that's why I thought your
35:05
Speaker 1: idea of going with both ways was brilliant. Everything about
35:09
Speaker 1: this it's hard to predicting the NFL, but everything about
35:13
Speaker 1: this feels like the beginning. Um, he's the heir apparent,
35:18
Speaker 1: And I wrote somewhere this week, I don't know if
35:22
Speaker 1: he's going to be. A reader asked me, is Trevor
35:26
Speaker 1: going to own the league? Well, I don't know about that,
35:29
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of good quarterbacks. My homes is
35:31
Speaker 1: really good. I don't know. I don't know that Trevor
35:33
Speaker 1: is going to get to a point where he's clearly
35:35
Speaker 1: the guy, but he's gonna be one of the guys,
35:39
Speaker 1: and that gives you a chance to be really good
35:42
Speaker 1: for a long time. Yeah, I think it's worth noting. So.
35:44
Speaker 1: I grew up in Kansas City, and I can remember
35:47
Speaker 1: there was a time between when Joe Montana retired and
35:51
Speaker 1: Alex Smith showed up that they didn't win a playoff
35:54
Speaker 1: game for more than twenty three years, right, and they
35:57
Speaker 1: had some good teams and some good coaches, really good teams.
35:59
Speaker 1: Tony can Donand's is a Hall of Fame tight end.
36:02
Speaker 1: He was with the Chiefs for a number of years,
36:04
Speaker 1: never won a playoff game with Kansas City, And now
36:07
Speaker 1: since Pat Mahomes showed up, they expect to be playing
36:11
Speaker 1: in the a f C Championship Game every year. I
36:13
Speaker 1: know that because I'm inundated by high school classmates and
36:16
Speaker 1: friends and family. Who are you, Well, it's nice you
36:19
Speaker 1: guys are coming to Kansas City, but you know, enjoy
36:21
Speaker 1: your trip to our stadium. You'll be going home after this.
36:24
Speaker 1: They expect to win, and I say that because I
36:27
Speaker 1: think we're going to see that here. The expectation is
36:30
Speaker 1: we've got a quarterback, we expect to win. Yeah, And
36:33
Speaker 1: but I think Doug is probably telling this team very
36:36
Speaker 1: unarrogantly because it's not his way. This is not the
36:39
Speaker 1: unbeatable foe out there. You know, respect this team, but
36:46
Speaker 1: they didn't play in Super Bowl last year. They lost
36:48
Speaker 1: at home, they lost at home four years ago, or
36:53
Speaker 1: whenever they run story they lost. Um, there are paths
36:58
Speaker 1: to victory, and I think the jag will is have
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