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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast We Can Review podcast presented
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Speaker 1: by t I A. A. Bank J P. Shadrick with
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Speaker 1: you on today is Friday, October sixteen. But where in
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Speaker 1: the midst of Week six? Boy? Could the Jags use
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Speaker 1: a win this week against the Lions after dropping four
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Speaker 1: in a row? Coming up the best of the week,
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Speaker 1: including the aftermath of the loss in Houston, yet another
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Speaker 1: change in place kickers, and to look ahead to the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Let's start with the aftermath of last week's
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Speaker 1: lost to the Texans. The Jaguars fell thirty to fourteen
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Speaker 1: at in r G Stadium in Houston. The Jags defense
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Speaker 1: had a couple of takeaways in the game, but the
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Speaker 1: Jags offense failed to score any points off those turnovers,
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Speaker 1: and in general, the offense just didn't produce last week.
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Speaker 1: Part of that was a little bit of imbalance. According
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Speaker 1: to offensive coordinator Jay Gruden, our design has to go
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Speaker 1: in there and run the football, pound the football. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: I've done a poor job of sticking with it. So
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Speaker 1: it's something that something we have to obviously get better
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Speaker 1: at and be aware of the game, the situation and
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Speaker 1: all that. Obviously, sometimes late in the third quarter, fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: If you take out that part of the game in
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Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks, it's hard to run
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Speaker 1: the ball. But we do have to do a better
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Speaker 1: job early in games to try to maintain the run
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Speaker 1: and and keep our lanemen uh pounding the rock a
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Speaker 1: little bit and keeping the pressure off Gardner. We've won
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Speaker 1: one game and he threw the ball twenty times. We're
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Speaker 1: really probably about twenty seven or twenty eight times because
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Speaker 1: he had a couple of scrambles in there and in
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Speaker 1: a couple of sacks, So that's the ideal number for us. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: score related, we weren't good enough on offense in the
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Speaker 1: first two or three quarters to keep the game close
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Speaker 1: where we didn't have to throw the ball. You take
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Speaker 1: a whole quarter out of your out of the game
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Speaker 1: as far as being able to run the football because
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Speaker 1: you're playing behind, you're playing against the clock as well
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Speaker 1: as that the other team. That kind of skews the numbers.
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Speaker 1: But in a perfect world, this offense is built on
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Speaker 1: balance and UH to thirty times is the target number
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. Then there were red zone issues. Really
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Speaker 1: for the first time this year, the Jakes missed on
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Speaker 1: two of four red zone opportunities, and another way they
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Speaker 1: got to the Texas twenty one yard line. Most notably, though,
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Jacks went forward on fourth
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Speaker 1: and one. Cruden always has a couple of gadget plays
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Speaker 1: up his sleeve each week, but he said this week
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Speaker 1: he wishes he had that one back. Yeah, that's that's
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Speaker 1: a play that all lose sleepover for many many nights,
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Speaker 1: and uh I regret calling, obviously, and it was a
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Speaker 1: gadget play we worked on at really practiced with James,
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Speaker 1: trying to sell it and get James o shaughnessy to
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Speaker 1: the corner. We're hoping with the wildcat formation that they
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Speaker 1: would trigger the corner. They brought the safety out of
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Speaker 1: the boxes, which we knew we did would do. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: we didn't sell the run good enough. Now sport coaching
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Speaker 1: on my part, So one't James fault. Wasn't James either,
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Speaker 1: James fault. That was my design fault. But it was
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Speaker 1: something that we saw. You know, Baltimore did a couple
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Speaker 1: of wildcats snaps direct snapped to the running back motion
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Speaker 1: lamar out. We felt like we had a pretty good look. Ideally,
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Speaker 1: that's a third and one call. Where you can go
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Speaker 1: forward on fourth down or maybe four minutes where you're
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Speaker 1: trying to steal the game. Uh, not a fourth and
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Speaker 1: one call. I should have left that in the hands
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Speaker 1: of our offensive lineman and James Robinson in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: and I regret that dearly. Just so you guys know
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Speaker 1: now that Jaguars Happy Our Wednesday, presented by the field's
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Speaker 1: auto group, Mucky Brooks, John Osian and I discussed the
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Speaker 1: sweet spot for this Jags offense moving forward. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: did not run the ball a lot in the game.
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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew through at forty nine times, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: in all four Jaguars losses, Menshew's thrown at forty or
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Speaker 1: more times each time out there. Robinson only got thirteen
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Speaker 1: carries in the game and ran for forty eight yards.
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Speaker 1: A lot of those were on the first couple of drives.
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Speaker 1: You only had five yards rushing in the second half.
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Speaker 1: So Jan Gruden today said that, as you know, always,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to balance it out a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: In an ideal situation for Gardner would be twenty five
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Speaker 1: to thirty attempts in a game. That means more carries
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Speaker 1: for James Robinson and that was the formula for victory
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Speaker 1: Bucky back in Week one. That is the way that
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have to play. It has to be about
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Speaker 1: the running game. It has to be about reducing the
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Speaker 1: load on Gardner Minshew. I think it's interesting that you
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Speaker 1: brought up that stat that in the last four games,
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Speaker 1: you gotta menshe you has forty or more M in
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Speaker 1: each of those games, which is coincided with a bunch
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Speaker 1: of losses. Some of that is not his own fault,
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Speaker 1: but I do believe Jake Grut needs to make sure
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Speaker 1: that he is able to control the game more by
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Speaker 1: leaning on the run. I'd like to see James Robinson
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Speaker 1: have twenty or more carrious because that, to me, would
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Speaker 1: would tell me that the game plan is about conserving it,
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Speaker 1: making sure that it's the run game first, and then
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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew is the complementary Dish and John. It's against
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Speaker 1: defenses that do not rank well in terms of rushing
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Speaker 1: in the National Football he Last week, the Texans went
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Speaker 1: into the game the worst rushing defense and football This week,
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Speaker 1: the Lions are thirty second in the league. It has
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Speaker 1: been and from a purely statistical pregame breakdown, me and
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Speaker 1: j p talking the game point of view, logic would
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Speaker 1: have told you you run until you can't run anymore
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Speaker 1: against the Texans. So that's boring because I've already talked
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Speaker 1: about that, But I'd love to know Bucky from the
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Speaker 1: scouts point of view, was there something the Texans were
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Speaker 1: doing doing that made them say this is a defense
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Speaker 1: we can throw against. Because the coordinators don't go into
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Speaker 1: games trying to do the weird thing. Was there something
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Speaker 1: that Texans were showing that made it look like they
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Speaker 1: should be able to beat that defense with the past well,
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Speaker 1: I mean the Texas had been very good on defense either,
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Speaker 1: they had had some problems and issues in coverage. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they weren't as tight as they had been. New defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator trying to figure out how to mix the fronts
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Speaker 1: with the coverages, and so you saw some opportunities for
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Speaker 1: big plays. I think the one thing about attacking a team,
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Speaker 1: we're building your game plan to be an attack mode.
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Speaker 1: You have to always be mindful of what you do
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Speaker 1: really really well. Early in the season, we saw James
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Speaker 1: Robinson get off to a strong start by running the
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Speaker 1: football when they were in those traditional eye formations, ran
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Speaker 1: play action off of that it seemed to work well.
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Speaker 1: Of late, we've seen a little more shotgun, a little
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Speaker 1: more government you centric offense, and it hasn't worked as well.
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Speaker 1: I think they have to get back to the basis
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Speaker 1: and get back to being a ground the penalty football team.
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Speaker 1: Part of those issues, of course, came in the kicking game.
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Speaker 1: Stephen House became the fourth field goal kicker in five weeks,
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Speaker 1: but he missed a twenty four yard or left, and
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Speaker 1: he came up short on a forty nine yarder before halftime.
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Speaker 1: On Monday, he was cut and John Brown was promoted
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Speaker 1: from the practice squad. He's a former college soccer player
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Speaker 1: at Kentucky and Louisville that later walked on to the
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Speaker 1: football team for the Louisville Cardinals, and he had a
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Speaker 1: few kickoffs there, but never a field goal attempt in
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Speaker 1: college or in the pros. Doug Brone has never seen
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Speaker 1: anything like this, and how does that affect you? And
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Speaker 1: and you know, is it anything you ever can even
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Speaker 1: remember remotely seeing? No, I can't remember anything anything like this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone anyone who has been through anything
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Speaker 1: like this. As far as the people here, whether it's
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Speaker 1: Joe d. Camillis Mike Mallory or any other coaches. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's unfortunate, um, and you want to be
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Speaker 1: able to be able to do a better job coming
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Speaker 1: in there when you have an opportunity. But I think
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Speaker 1: there's a you know, there's a lot that goes into it. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, of the of the other
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Speaker 1: you know, the players that we've had have been injured.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've gotten injured, which is is crazy, uh
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Speaker 1: in that regard. You know, John Brown's coming in here,
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Speaker 1: and you know, we worked him out. He looked good,
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Speaker 1: and I guess we'll just have to see when he
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Speaker 1: goes out there on Sunday. But you know, the one
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Speaker 1: thing about that position that I've that I've kind of learned,
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Speaker 1: you know through my experience. You know, you can go
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Speaker 1: out there and you can look good in practice, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's a whole different ballgame, you know, when
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Speaker 1: you go out there on a Sunday and then you
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Speaker 1: know the pressure, the pressure comes involved. It kind of
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Speaker 1: gets overlooked probably a little bit too, maybe what Lambeau
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Speaker 1: has done here, you know, and maybe so many other
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Speaker 1: kickers around the league, you know, And I think it's
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Speaker 1: one of those things you're going there and and we
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Speaker 1: we can we can see it a lot with other positions,
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Speaker 1: but you know that that part of it is um
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Speaker 1: is a big part of it. That you know, being
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Speaker 1: able to go in there and be able to relax
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Speaker 1: yourself and be able to go in there and and
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Speaker 1: kick and and you know, put it through the uprights
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Speaker 1: is um. It's it's more difficult than going in your
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Speaker 1: backyard and just trying to kick a field goal, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I think they're a great appreciation for that. And um,
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Speaker 1: I think you know, we'll see, we'll see how John
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Speaker 1: does because you know he hasn't done that before. Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: no one has ever seen anything like this. If Brown
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Speaker 1: has an attempt this week against the Lions, either a
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Speaker 1: field goal or an extra point, the Jags will be
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Speaker 1: the first team in league history to have five kickers
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Speaker 1: with field goal or extra point stats in a five
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Speaker 1: week stretch. The defense went into last week's game without
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Speaker 1: four starters who were held out due to injury, and
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Speaker 1: another starter had to leave the game midway after interjection,
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Speaker 1: but some players who stepped into a starting role stood out,
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Speaker 1: including cornerback Sydney Jones. The Jags claimed him off waivers
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Speaker 1: from the Eagles back in September, and he made the
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Speaker 1: most of his opportunity. Last week, head coach Dug Maron
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Speaker 1: said there could be more ahead for Jones. I think
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Speaker 1: he's had that, you know, ability to to earn all
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Speaker 1: those things that you just mentioned. I think that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate from you know, coming out of college.
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Speaker 1: You know, we all really liked them. Obviously a lot
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Speaker 1: of teams liked them. He went, um, you know, high
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Speaker 1: in the draft, and you know, then he had an injury.
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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes when you have those injuries, it just
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Speaker 1: takes a while, you know what I'm saying, to get back.
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Speaker 1: And you know, even when he first came here, I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't know if he was completely I don't
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Speaker 1: want to say that he was still injured. I just
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Speaker 1: think the confidence that you need when you come back
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Speaker 1: from an injury, especially when you're a young football player
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Speaker 1: like Sydney is. And then you know, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: you know, you see him moving better, you see him breaking,
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Speaker 1: and you see him doing things and you're like, wow,
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Speaker 1: you know this is this is great. You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited for him, and then to see him going on
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Speaker 1: the field. I remember talking Tom, telling him how excited
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Speaker 1: that was for him to go out there and be
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Speaker 1: able to show what he can do, because I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's probably disappointed, you know, with the injury
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Speaker 1: situation that happened earlier, that it wasn't able to you know,
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Speaker 1: go out there and perform at his highest level. And UM,
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Speaker 1: I think he saw, you know, what he has the
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Speaker 1: ability to do. So you know, when you see someone
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Speaker 1: go out there and perform like that, and and and
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, do a lot of really good things,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously you're gonna look to him and see, hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: is you gonna play more? What are we gonna do?
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Speaker 1: So we'll work on that. Turn in a week in
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Speaker 1: the for the draft process, Jones touring Achilles, and he
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Speaker 1: slid down the draft into the second round where the
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Speaker 1: Eagles selected him. He got the opportunity to start last
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Speaker 1: week because of an injury to C. J. Henderson. Ashland
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Speaker 1: some of it asked him about both on an Instagram
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Speaker 1: live conversation this week. What was that process like and
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Speaker 1: maybe what did you learn about your sold I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a pretty serious injury to come back from. Um
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Speaker 1: have been three years ago. It was before before the draft,
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Speaker 1: got hurt, surgery, got drafted second round, came back. Um,
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Speaker 1: kind of really never never caught that stride, like like
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Speaker 1: I was in college and you know, had some ups
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Speaker 1: and downs over the past three years. And it's been
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Speaker 1: a journey. It's been it's been a little struggle, but
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Speaker 1: you just gotta stick to that process. You usually gotta
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Speaker 1: trust yourself and it's always it's always, it's always a process,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's where it starts and anything in life.
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Speaker 1: So Um, that journey was tough. Um, but I'm here now,
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Speaker 1: sticking with it and happy to be here. We have
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Speaker 1: a lot of igoar stands in the comments asking how
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Speaker 1: is c J. Henderson doing? And what is your guy's relationship?
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Speaker 1: Light together, we for all kinds of of great things
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Speaker 1: about c J. So what have you seen from him? Oh,
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Speaker 1: he's he's excellent. He's an excellent rookie. Um. He comes
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Speaker 1: to work, always ready, always prepare, always ask him questions,
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Speaker 1: doing everything right. First game he surprised me, um, and
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Speaker 1: I was like ball. So that was exciting to watch.
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Speaker 1: Excited to have him back uh this week and moving forward. Um,
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Speaker 1: we've been cool. You know, just chopping up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Gettt know which a little bit better? Um, so it's
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Speaker 1: been good to have him. When we return, a look
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Speaker 1: Titans game. So let's get to our power rankings going
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Speaker 1: into week six. Actually with another game in week five
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Speaker 1: remaining tomorrow night, Tony get us started. Please AFC South
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Speaker 1: Power rankings highly anticipated. Painful listening to be a painful
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Speaker 1: segment for me. Um, I'm going to Tennessee Titans. Number one.
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Speaker 1: Even though I think the Bills are gonna beat them,
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Speaker 1: I still think they're the best team in the ANFC South.
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Speaker 1: Um the culture number two. Um, even though I think,
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Speaker 1: I hate to say, because I really like Philip Rivers
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Speaker 1: as well as a player, but he might be on
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Speaker 1: the doorstep of being done. Um, because I think they
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Speaker 1: have a really good defense. They can run the ball. Uh.
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Speaker 1: This hurts right now where I'm about to say, but
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Speaker 1: I can't deny it. The Texans won. The Texans are three,
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Speaker 1: and the Jags are in the door. There the doormat
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Speaker 1: there last. I'll agree with across the board. I would
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Speaker 1: if if the Colts had won, clearly they would have
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Speaker 1: been the best team in the division. But the way
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Speaker 1: that Rivers has played those two losses, come on, they
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Speaker 1: lost to the jag Wars. You should have won that game.
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Speaker 1: He threw two was it two picks in that game,
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Speaker 1: and he threw two yesterday. He just he didn't look good.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't look good, and so there's bench him. Pete
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Speaker 1: Dalley scored twenty points against the Jaguars. They're gonna bench him, Pete. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's people are asking that question. They asked Frank Reich
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Speaker 1: about it today and he said, no, yeah, would you
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Speaker 1: bench him? Not yet? At least you gotta let him
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Speaker 1: play it out for so that's right. So ranked quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: in the South, Danny Hill might be one Watson too,
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Speaker 1: uh minshewn and Rivers the way he's playing, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I think I might agree with you.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, Tony, we're killing Rivers up until
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Speaker 1: the last week, and we went and played to the
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Speaker 1: Bears and they won. He was completing over seventies. Something
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Speaker 1: present of his bars is but he's still is a
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Speaker 1: hard time drying. He like he's another one has a
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Speaker 1: hard time driving it down the field. Yeah, because he's
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Speaker 1: always been a guy that uses his lower body and
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Speaker 1: torque to drive the ball. And I don't think he
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Speaker 1: has any power anymore. Yeah, he's just getting old. He's done, probably, Pete.
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Speaker 1: What are your power rankings? Are the same as Tone Niece? Yes,
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Speaker 1: exactly the same, exact. No controversy this week. Okay, to
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Speaker 1: get blown out? What if the Titans. Let's let's spin
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Speaker 1: it forward, what if the Titans kept blown out? Still,
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Speaker 1: I'm still picking the Titans over every team out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and they're not that good. They're not that good. It's
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Speaker 1: a bad division, alright. So the a f C South
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Speaker 1: power rankings are in and they are negative. We're back
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Speaker 1: in a moment and we'll go around the National Football League,
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Speaker 1: We continue this week with John Oshan's visit was second
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Speaker 1: year right tackle Jowan Taylor on the ozone podcast. It's
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Speaker 1: a great conversation with a guy who could be a
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Speaker 1: cornerstone player for the Jaguars offensive line. Tell me about
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Speaker 1: your rookie year and how tough it is for an
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman in the NFL to adjust. What was the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing that you took away and what was the
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Speaker 1: toughest thing about that year. First off, just coming in
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Speaker 1: having to learn the actual NFL style offense and actually
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Speaker 1: you know, locking into that. Uh, that was pretty tough
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Speaker 1: at first, um, but then after I learned that, it
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Speaker 1: was just transitioning from the game speeds a little different
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Speaker 1: from college to the pros. And then you know, um,
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Speaker 1: going against great players every single day, Like I came in,
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Speaker 1: going against like Yannick and got Quai and Kelis Campbell
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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen, different guys like that every day. So
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Speaker 1: that definitely made me better and had me prepared for,
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Speaker 1: you know, my first game in the in the NFL. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, just doing that, just the transition to that
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Speaker 1: was hard itself. But other than that, um, everything else
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Speaker 1: was good. You know, we're playing the game we love,
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Speaker 1: and you know, we come in every day in the
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Speaker 1: build and you just come in with a great attitude
16:43
Speaker 1: and in the great mindset and just you know, you
16:45
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be willing to learn every single day
16:47
Speaker 1: being a rookie. Um, you know, just be quiet in
16:50
Speaker 1: the back of the meeting room and ask the question
16:51
Speaker 1: we need to ask questions, and you know, listen to
16:53
Speaker 1: your your veterans, because last year I had all veterans
16:56
Speaker 1: next to me, and I was the youngest on the
16:57
Speaker 1: old line and in the old line room. So just
17:00
Speaker 1: soaking up everything. Brandon and Cam and and all those
17:02
Speaker 1: guys are telling me a j and and you know
17:04
Speaker 1: that that helped me out a lot. So um that
17:07
Speaker 1: that helped me get through through our rookie year for sure. Now,
17:09
Speaker 1: the reason I asked you that is I think something
17:12
Speaker 1: maybe fans would never realize, but I noticed early this
17:15
Speaker 1: offseason from it seemed like the first week and a
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Speaker 1: half after this season ended. I saw you in the building.
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Speaker 1: You're already back, You're already lifting, You're already working forward
17:24
Speaker 1: this season. This is pretty covid. But not every first
17:29
Speaker 1: year guy going into the second year is back like that.
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Speaker 1: Does that say anything about who you are? Your approach?
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Speaker 1: It struck me that you really were ready to get
17:39
Speaker 1: started as soon as this thing ended last year. Oh yeah,
17:42
Speaker 1: most definitely always had that work ethic and the hunger
17:45
Speaker 1: in our drive to want to be better, be the
17:47
Speaker 1: best that I can be. And most definitely just always
17:49
Speaker 1: being available for my team, being healthy, and I knew
17:52
Speaker 1: different things I need to improve on from our rookie
17:54
Speaker 1: you're going into this year, So um, I wanted to
17:57
Speaker 1: take a little what we week long break and get
17:59
Speaker 1: right back to it. Um because you know, I'm young
18:01
Speaker 1: and different things like I could just come right back
18:03
Speaker 1: into it and get right back in the group of things.
18:05
Speaker 1: So um, it wasn't no problem for me. Um. I
18:08
Speaker 1: talked to the strength coaches and different things like that,
18:10
Speaker 1: and and they put it get a good plan for
18:12
Speaker 1: me before the virus hit and um, you know the
18:15
Speaker 1: virus that of course we had to all go home
18:16
Speaker 1: and quarantine a different things like that. But um, they definitely,
18:20
Speaker 1: they definitely were working me hard when I first got back.
18:22
Speaker 1: So UM, I just locked into it and try to
18:24
Speaker 1: get better. The full conversation available on the Ozone podcast,
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Speaker 1: available on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. Now to this
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Speaker 1: week's opponent, the Detroit Lions. There one in three and
18:35
Speaker 1: they're coming off of bye week and they're also last
18:37
Speaker 1: in the league and rush defense. Entering Week six, Lions
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Speaker 1: digital reporter Tory Petrie joined Ashlan Sullivan, John Oshan, and
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton Thursday morning on Drivetime and discussed how the
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Speaker 1: Lions planned to slow down James Robinson and the Jaguars
18:50
Speaker 1: running game. Let's go to the defensive silent ball. This
18:53
Speaker 1: defense against the run as of right now allowing on
18:56
Speaker 1: average a hundred seventy yards per game. What has this
18:59
Speaker 1: defense talked about stopping Jaguars running back James Robinson. He's
19:03
Speaker 1: definitely been a positive here for us down here in Jacksonville. Yeah,
19:06
Speaker 1: James Robinson has been a huge topic of conversation in
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Speaker 1: Detroit this week. They have talked about how they have
19:12
Speaker 1: got to stop that guy. It's been so impressive what
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Speaker 1: he has been doing as an undrafted rookie free agent,
19:18
Speaker 1: and the lines coaches have all talked about how they
19:21
Speaker 1: need to be able to stop the run better than
19:23
Speaker 1: they have. It's the one thing that they really did
19:26
Speaker 1: well in that game against Arizona, there one win so
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Speaker 1: far this season. They were able to stop Kyler Murray
19:30
Speaker 1: on the ground and force him to throw and they
19:33
Speaker 1: got three picks in that game. So I would expect
19:35
Speaker 1: that they're kind of trying to do something similar this week.
19:37
Speaker 1: They really want to stop the ground game so that
19:40
Speaker 1: they are able to make the Jaguars one dimensional. That
19:43
Speaker 1: would be their goal this week. But they have struggled
19:46
Speaker 1: against the run so far this season, and like I said,
19:49
Speaker 1: the one game that they won that was something that
19:51
Speaker 1: they did well, but in all the other games that
19:53
Speaker 1: they've lost, they have really struggled to stop the run.
19:56
Speaker 1: Now they haven't quite said what adjustments they feel like
19:59
Speaker 1: they need to to be able to do that, but
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Speaker 1: they certainly need to have made some and they're hoping
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Speaker 1: that this bye week has given them time to reassess
20:06
Speaker 1: their defense and look at what they have been doing
20:09
Speaker 1: wrong against the run. Thanks to Tori for her time
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Speaker 1: this week. Jack's Rivetime airs Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
20:17
Speaker 1: on Jack's social channels. On the offensive side, they still
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Speaker 1: have Matthew Stafford of the controls of the offense at quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Of course, he's played in two games against the Jaguars
20:27
Speaker 1: and he's two at all, but he hasn't thrown a touchdown.
20:29
Speaker 1: He hasn't thrown an interception either. He has some talented
20:32
Speaker 1: receivers around him this year, of course, but the Lions
20:35
Speaker 1: this year have also added one of the all time
20:37
Speaker 1: great running backs, Adrian Peterson. Who better to discuss running
20:41
Speaker 1: backs than Jaguars great Fred Taylor. In a preview of
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Speaker 1: Sunday's Countdown to Kickoff interview on the Jaguars Radio Network,
20:48
Speaker 1: Taylor discusses using James Robinson more his memory, facing an
20:52
Speaker 1: all time great and what a p might have left
20:55
Speaker 1: in the tank just looking at the game last week
20:58
Speaker 1: for example, and really been the theme of the season. Uh,
21:02
Speaker 1: the slow starts. You know, Jamie Robinson, he comes out,
21:06
Speaker 1: you know, he had eleven yard run, an eight yard runner,
21:09
Speaker 1: a seven yard run, four yard, four yard and a
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Speaker 1: few no games. But that doesn't mean go away from
21:15
Speaker 1: the run game. That means dig in there and try
21:17
Speaker 1: to have some patience with it and hopefully some good
21:21
Speaker 1: things will happen. But he has shown early in the game,
21:24
Speaker 1: feed me I want the rock. They gotta find a
21:27
Speaker 1: way to stick with it, which means the defense, you know,
21:31
Speaker 1: they gotta play better on their side. They can't allow
21:34
Speaker 1: the other team to convience the field and win the
21:36
Speaker 1: field position battle, uh and and outscore our offense. So
21:41
Speaker 1: if the defense isn't playing great, it's hard to find
21:44
Speaker 1: that balance on the offensive side. So it's a combination
21:48
Speaker 1: of things. Defense, special teams, offense. They all gotta be
21:52
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders and on the same page. So
21:55
Speaker 1: hopefully again this is the week. Detroit, they don't do
21:59
Speaker 1: a very good job at stopping the run as the
22:02
Speaker 1: other teams the past two weeks, UH they were the same.
22:05
Speaker 1: So that means that Jaguar's offense got to go out
22:08
Speaker 1: there and force the issue sort of and hopefully have
22:11
Speaker 1: a few big plays, you know, within that within those calls. UH.
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Speaker 1: And and that's what I expect. I think James Robinson,
22:18
Speaker 1: he's fired up, he's geared up, ready to have a
22:20
Speaker 1: big week show. I'm gonna say he's gonna get a
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Speaker 1: hundred on the ground this week. This is the week.
22:25
Speaker 1: This is the week. And I want to add to
22:29
Speaker 1: UH and my my rookie year in Jacksonville could have
22:33
Speaker 1: been your two. I remember another great Detroit Lion running
22:37
Speaker 1: back that came to town, Barry Sanders, and there was
22:40
Speaker 1: a rookie on the other side I believe was my
22:43
Speaker 1: rookie year JP. I have due Barry Sanders and I'm
22:47
Speaker 1: pretty sure James Robinson he's looking. He's gonna be looking
22:49
Speaker 1: over on the other sideline looking at Adrian Peterson, thinking
22:53
Speaker 1: that the same thing, same thoughts that I had back
22:56
Speaker 1: in the day when I wanted to out rush uh
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Speaker 1: Barry that day and I did. I think I had
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Speaker 1: a hundred eight three yards, But who's counting? Who's counting? Uh?
23:08
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping that we have the same output today.
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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with a speaking of a p how much
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Speaker 1: juice does Adrian Peterson still have the steep into his career? Oh? Man,
23:20
Speaker 1: he looks good. I can see those knees aren't bending
23:23
Speaker 1: the same way they used to. But still he's running
23:26
Speaker 1: the ball effectively, very efficiently. So I mean, as long
23:31
Speaker 1: as he's putting up, you know, four yards a walk,
23:35
Speaker 1: we can accept that. You know, he's top five rusher
23:38
Speaker 1: all time, so you gotta respect that. You still gotta
23:41
Speaker 1: respect his ability what we saw him doing just a
23:43
Speaker 1: year ago in Washington, still ripping off some long runs
23:47
Speaker 1: and he still has that ability. Otherwise he wouldn't be
23:50
Speaker 1: in the NFL because it's definitely a young man's game,
23:54
Speaker 1: and the teams can find any young guy to get
23:56
Speaker 1: out there and put up some numbers. So a p
23:59
Speaker 1: still has a lot of juice in his tank man
24:02
Speaker 1: and uh, I think his motivation is passing Barry Sanders,
24:06
Speaker 1: which he is about eight hundred yards shy that to
24:09
Speaker 1: be number four all the time, Joe, you can't fall
24:12
Speaker 1: asleep on him out their defense. The full interview airs
24:15
Speaker 1: Sunday in Countdown to Kickoff starting at noon on the
24:18
Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio Network. Big Ball Games Sunday for the Jaguars,
24:22
Speaker 1: of course, they'll try to snap a four game skid
24:24
Speaker 1: with a win against the Detroit Lions. Tickets available at
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Speaker 1: air at ten o'clock with the public shell Gate Show
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Speaker 1: on ten to XL, followed at noon on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Radio Network with Countdown to Kickoff, and of course after
24:38
Speaker 1: the game, Jaguars Post Game with Yours truly, Mike Dempsey
24:41
Speaker 1: and Fred Taylor, and then you're called to the Scoreboard Show.
24:44
Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks joins us from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully after a winning results in Week six, have a
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Speaker 1: great weekend, enjoyed the game Sunday, and thanks for listening.
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