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Countdown to Kickoff: Jim Miller, Jaguars at Cowboys · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: This is I think by eleventh one, this team stands out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is the only team that we've gone
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  Speaker 1: to Peck Herwin and myself that they return all eleven
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  Speaker 1: starters on defense. No other team can say that in
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  Speaker 1: the league. And they're impressive a group. And how this
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  Speaker 1: team has been built, you know ADM Ridley, you know
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  Speaker 1: last year, adding Christian Kirk and just the playmakers that
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  Speaker 1: are here and extending the guys that were necessary here.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram comes off a record setting year and he's
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  Speaker 1: in the mix and career highs for everybody. Just how
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  Speaker 1: this team is grown and they're young, and they had
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  Speaker 1: thirteen draft picks, which is going to be hard for
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  Speaker 1: those draft picks to crack this lineup. I only think
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  Speaker 1: there's probably going to be two or three contributors. We
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  Speaker 1: would think Anton Harrison the tackle because of the suspension
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  Speaker 1: of Cam, He's going to get a lot of playing time.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bigsby the running back, will get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of playing time. And I like the safety Antonio Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: You know, minimum he's going to be a special teams
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  Speaker 1: contributor for this team. But they stayed healthy last year
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  Speaker 1: I think is a key for this team. They look
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  Speaker 1: very good and poised to take another big jump. They
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  Speaker 1: got to beat the teams that they need to beat.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course there's those bugaboos in the AFC
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  Speaker 1: that you're gonna play to see where you stack up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's gonna start early with Kansas City, who you
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  Speaker 1: faced in the playoffs. I think later in the year,
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  Speaker 1: you got a good, gug quality game against Pittsburgh, Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati later in the year, and those are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: good tests for this team, and everybody's gonna say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't beat Kansas City. I just think this team's
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  Speaker 1: up for the challenge. I really do. They could get
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  Speaker 1: off to a good start here.
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  Speaker 2: Year three for Trevor Lawrence, throw the rookie year out
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  Speaker 2: the window. It's really year two for him in this
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  Speaker 2: offense under Doug Peterson, press Taylor, everybody around him, the
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  Speaker 2: weapons to go with it, and you just kind of
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  Speaker 2: see him see it slowing down for him. Right. There's
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  Speaker 2: that base of what they did last year in the offense,
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  Speaker 2: and now they can build upon that with different routes
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  Speaker 2: and you're adding Ridley to the mix. For Trevor, Pete
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  Speaker 2: Prisco CBS Sports picked him as his MVP this year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're gonna go that far, but
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  Speaker 2: it could be a big year for Truv.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, the jump he made last
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  Speaker 1: year one is a credit to Doug Peterson, who played
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  Speaker 1: the position. I think he's a great influence on him. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Coach McCoy, I mean Coach McCoy the quarterbacks coach here.
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  Speaker 1: He's coached some really good quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so he's got some good knowledge to share
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  Speaker 1: with him. And you could see it happening last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you go to double digit touchdowns compared
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  Speaker 1: to the turnovers what it was the year before, I
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  Speaker 1: think that says a lot. And he's clicking and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get sacked. There was I think this team only
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  Speaker 1: gave up like twenty eight total sacks last year I
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  Speaker 1: covered the Bears, they gave up fifty five. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields was running for his life out there. And
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  Speaker 1: Trevor it does it seems like just from what I
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  Speaker 1: saw on the practice, he looks better, he looks polished.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be another you know, and it's all
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC. All these young quarterbacks are just talented
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  Speaker 1: and he's definitely in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: The talk around this camp is that the difference that
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  Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley could make on all these other playmakers. He's
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  Speaker 2: been out of the game since two seasons ago, where
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  Speaker 2: he played only five games, of course suspended last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's a contract year for him. He's got a new place,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a new quarterback, he's got everything to play
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  Speaker 2: for and you know, the motivation is not going to
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  Speaker 2: be an issue for Calvin. But what can you truly
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  Speaker 2: expect from Calvin Ridley?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think again he'll re emerge. And he just
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  Speaker 1: seems to be in a good spot mentally when I
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  Speaker 1: talked to coach Peterson earlier today, just his energy level,
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  Speaker 1: what he's brought to the team, all the bumps and bruises,
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  Speaker 1: like he had a foot issue that he got corrected
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  Speaker 1: as well, and he just seems to be in a
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  Speaker 1: really good spot. And I think everybody knows the talent
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  Speaker 1: is there, you know, and he has the talent, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's got the mind in the right place where
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be, where he could lead this team
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  Speaker 1: in receptions. You know, you would like to think it
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  Speaker 1: would be Kirk again because he's get a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of slot, but really will be a big time playmaker here.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Miller with a serious XM Radio AFC South Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: won the division last year unbelievably. They were down four
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  Speaker 2: in the standings Tennessee collapse. Jaguars couldn't lose towards the
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  Speaker 2: end and it came down to the final week to
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  Speaker 2: get it done. On all these wild comeback wins, it's
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  Speaker 2: really not feasible every year. You don't want to rely
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  Speaker 2: on all these comebacks. But a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: saying the Jaguars are the favorites now. They're a fumble
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  Speaker 2: away from not winning the division last year in any
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  Speaker 2: of the last five or six games. Where does it
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  Speaker 2: stand for you? In the AFC South. Are the Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: the clear cut number one team? Is Tennessee still have
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  Speaker 2: some punch to them.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think Jacksonville is the clear cut number one.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be better offensively for all
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  Speaker 1: the reasons that we just mentioned. Granted, the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: has the shuffling of players. We'll see where that goes.
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  Speaker 1: But the playmakers are there, the quarterbacks where he need
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  Speaker 1: to be. I think where the bigger jump is going
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  Speaker 1: to be is on defense. They finished twenty fourth overall
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  Speaker 1: on defense, and I played with Mike Caldwell and so
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  Speaker 1: he's obviously a Todd Bowles disciple. I just think they're
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  Speaker 1: further along with their communication. I think Josh Allen is
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  Speaker 1: poised to have a big year. He threw out the
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  Speaker 1: number of fifteen sacks is what he's going for this year.
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  Speaker 1: And it just seems like they're, you know, being together
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  Speaker 1: all the whole entire unit, and that you know, towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of last year they were six and one
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch, but there was that four game span
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  Speaker 1: between Week fourteen and Week eighteen, Everybody's like, hey, where
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  Speaker 1: are the sacks? Where are the sacks? But they led
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  Speaker 1: in pressures, they led in quarterback hits. And I think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to start off like how they finished a
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  Speaker 1: season ago with just how much more experience they'll have
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  Speaker 1: in this Might Caldwell defense.
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  Speaker 2: It is amazing the perception and the total defensive rankings.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were twenty fourth, as you said, but
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  Speaker 2: they're only thirty yards away from being in the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you make one little adjustment on defense, a
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  Speaker 2: few guys get better here or there. That's what they're
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  Speaker 2: counting on as development. All of a sudden, you're a
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  Speaker 2: top ten defense, perception changes a lot of the area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, those quarterback hits that I mentioned, those probably will
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  Speaker 1: turn into sacks now, you know. And again it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to my conversation with Josh Allen said, I would
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  Speaker 1: go home, I'd watch myself on tape and I was
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  Speaker 1: just a hair away, you know. And he says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking it to the next level. The communication with his
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  Speaker 1: fellow members on defense, even if it's the safety Jenkins,
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  Speaker 1: and and how everybody's going to play it to control
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  Speaker 1: their gaps where they can just play a lot faster
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  Speaker 1: and maybe make those plays in the end.