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Coach Pederson on working to change the culture | The Doug Pederson Show: Thursday, December 29 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. J T.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discussed the latest Jaguars
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Speaker 1: news with the head coach. That Doug Peterson Show starts
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Speaker 1: right now and welcome in this week seventeen The Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Logoman and Jaguars
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Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson as the Jaguars head to NRG
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Speaker 1: Stadium in Houston to face the Texans. First place now
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Speaker 1: the a f C South, though a little different feelings,
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Speaker 1: still controlling your fate in the division. But the task
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Speaker 1: at hand this week the Texans. Then it's on to
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Speaker 1: the Titans. What's the challenge of keeping the team focused
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Speaker 1: on the task this week? First, that's just it keeping
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Speaker 1: the team focused. Um, you know, obviously, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: we understand what this team did to us the first
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Speaker 1: time around Week five. You know, it was it was
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Speaker 1: a thirteen six ballgame, and and um, you know, I
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Speaker 1: also got to remind our team that we're we're different,
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Speaker 1: We're a better football team now, you know, here in
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Speaker 1: the month of December than we were in Week five
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Speaker 1: and and uh so you know you're hoping that things
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Speaker 1: go a little bit better this time around. But you
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Speaker 1: know the biggest challenge is to keep guys focused on
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Speaker 1: this week, not looking into next week. And and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know it's a good football team and a team
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Speaker 1: that it's kind of dangerous, you know, because they're not
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Speaker 1: playing for anything. And and uh, you know I had
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Speaker 1: to remind the team of just a year ago, how
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Speaker 1: how you know they spoiled the hopes of a Indianapolis
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Speaker 1: Colts team that came in here and you know, lost
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Speaker 1: a football game to miss out on the postseason. So
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Speaker 1: these are these are must wins for us. Team understands
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Speaker 1: that there's a sense of urgency and and uh, guys
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Speaker 1: are focusing ready to go. You know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people may wonder what the approach was gonna be this week,
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Speaker 1: just because you know, the the game has meeting. From
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Speaker 1: the standpoint, if you end up in a tie in
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Speaker 1: the last game of the regular season, okay, then this
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Speaker 1: is a tiebreaker and it means something. But would you
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Speaker 1: rest players this week or would you not? And having
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Speaker 1: said that, when you met the team for the very
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Speaker 1: first time, after all of this is known. What was
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Speaker 1: the first thing that you said to your football team.
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Speaker 1: The first thing I said is this is a this
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Speaker 1: is a must win and and you know, we're we're
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Speaker 1: going in with every healthy body that we can and
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Speaker 1: and you know, um, you know, and and for me too,
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Speaker 1: it's this is this is a different situation a little
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Speaker 1: bit from the standpoint of we can get to five hundred, right,
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Speaker 1: eight and eight with a chance to put us at
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Speaker 1: nine and eight, you know at the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: So that's a winning record. Uh, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: the history of the Jaguars and shot and in his
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Speaker 1: history and track record here recently, and and he hasn't
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Speaker 1: had too many of these, uh, you know, winning seasons.
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Speaker 1: And so for me, it's it's a little more a
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Speaker 1: little more motivation that way, And and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I want the guys to understand just how meaningful and
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Speaker 1: how powerful and impactful that is to set this program
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Speaker 1: on a path that year in and year out we
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Speaker 1: expect to win and and have winning seasons, you know,
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Speaker 1: moving forward. And this is a division opponent that's had
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Speaker 1: there's a consec in a game streak going on. I mean,
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Speaker 1: those are things you want to change when you're talking
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Speaker 1: about changing the culture exactly exactly, And those are things
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Speaker 1: that I've I've reminded the team of and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's you're changing the culture around here, and
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Speaker 1: and the guys understand that. And we're putting ourselves on
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Speaker 1: a on a path that you know, hopefully we win
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Speaker 1: you know, a lot more uh you know games, regular
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Speaker 1: season games as the years go on. But two, we
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Speaker 1: expect to win. That's the that's the challenging thing now
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Speaker 1: with this football team is is getting them to believe
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Speaker 1: in getting them to believe and and and really the
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Speaker 1: expectation that we're going into every football game, no matter
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Speaker 1: who we play, it's kind of that faithless opponent, so
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Speaker 1: to speak, that we expect to win. And and um,
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Speaker 1: the guys believe that, and um, you know, we have
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Speaker 1: to understand just the impact of that in in in
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Speaker 1: games like this, whether whether they mean something or not
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Speaker 1: to the outside world, you know, to us, they gotta
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Speaker 1: mean something. Head coach Chuck Peterson, whether let's talk about
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Speaker 1: a couple of key injuries now and the changes since
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Speaker 1: those and Cam Robinson is out obviously, so Walker a
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Speaker 1: little stepped in there. At left tackle last week though
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Speaker 1: to one Smoot goes down with an achilles injury. What
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Speaker 1: are the plans for that spot and how is Walker
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Speaker 1: little played at left tackle so far? Yeah, Walker stepped
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Speaker 1: in last week, did a nice job in that game.
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Speaker 1: You know, started off a touch rough, but but really
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Speaker 1: settled in and did some did some nice things and
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he's the type of player we
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Speaker 1: saw back in training camp where the more reps he gets, right,
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Speaker 1: the more practice time, he becomes a better football player.
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Speaker 1: And so we're excited about his opportunity and his growth
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Speaker 1: right now. And really it kind of gives us sort of,
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Speaker 1: uh an insight to who he is, you know, as
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Speaker 1: a football player, and we're we're excited about that. And
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Speaker 1: then on the defensive side, it's unfortunate with Smoot and
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Speaker 1: you know, losing a great pass rusher, you lose some
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Speaker 1: of that that presence of the pass rush, you know
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Speaker 1: with him and what he's uh been able to do.
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Speaker 1: This season. But you know, I think a guy is
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Speaker 1: like like Josh Allen, you know, it's gonna have to
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Speaker 1: really step up now. Get Trayvon Walker back, you know,
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Speaker 1: and get him in the fold. And you know, Calebon
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Speaker 1: Chaise Song is gonna take more meaningful reps now on
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Speaker 1: defense as opposed to special teams. And you know it's
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Speaker 1: just it's arden Key is going to be a big
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Speaker 1: factor in there. And then you know, we've got a
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Speaker 1: young Deshaun Dixon who, whether or not he's up or not,
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Speaker 1: is gonna have to you know, be ready to go um,
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Speaker 1: you know in these these coming weeks because you know,
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Speaker 1: with a guy like Smoot, we've we've lost some pass
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Speaker 1: rush and and and now it's gonna have to get
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Speaker 1: spread out amongst amongst the troops. Now you talk about
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Speaker 1: losing some pass rush productivity, I think what you lose
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Speaker 1: a lot to is some leadership with Dwan Smoot and
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson because you know, watching the film on those
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Speaker 1: guys weekend and week out, the one thing that you
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Speaker 1: can count on with those guys every week is consistent,
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Speaker 1: outstanding effort, exactly right. And yeah, that's what I've seen,
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Speaker 1: you know with Cam Kim, you know, still a young player,
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Speaker 1: but he's kind of come into his own as a
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Speaker 1: leader this year. And I think that's also a part
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Speaker 1: of what Brandon Sheriff has brought to our football team,
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Speaker 1: and that off fensive line room and and and Cam
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Speaker 1: has done that. You know, we know who smooth is
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Speaker 1: and he's always been been that type of leader with
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Speaker 1: with the defense and really with the team, and um,
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Speaker 1: he's had an impact that way, and and those it's
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Speaker 1: hard to replace, you know, it's hard to replace leadership
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Speaker 1: like that. But you know, my job too is to
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Speaker 1: challenge the next guy to step up and and see
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Speaker 1: who's gonna take on that role. Let's get to the
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Speaker 1: quarterback now. Trevor Lawrence, of course still continuing to roll
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Speaker 1: and and playing better and better as the weeks go along.
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Speaker 1: Executed that plan in New York very well. But I'm
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Speaker 1: curious about what you've seen out of him in these
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Speaker 1: meaningful games when it comes down you have to go win.
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Speaker 1: You're trailing in a game, they figure out a way
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Speaker 1: to go take the lead and fight and win. And
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Speaker 1: when did you start to see that side of the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: the killer instinct, the competitive nature of that, And has
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Speaker 1: that grown as the season has gone along? It has grown,
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Speaker 1: you know. And and obviously we keep going back to
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Speaker 1: the Denver game in London, and I think I think, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, that was a sort of a a lightbulb
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Speaker 1: moment for him and probably the offense you know in general.
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Speaker 1: And and really from that point forward, we've just seen
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Speaker 1: that that steady progression with with the quarterback, with Trevor,
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Speaker 1: and you know, um, you come out of the by
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Speaker 1: right and and now you're now you're playing, you're you're
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Speaker 1: you're still playing meaningful games and and all of them
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Speaker 1: are really must win situations and must wins, you know,
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Speaker 1: for us as a football team to put put ourselves
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Speaker 1: in this position. And you've just seen the toughness now
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Speaker 1: with the injury right with the toe. You're seeing how
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Speaker 1: he um I can take a Wednesday off in practice,
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Speaker 1: still get meaningful mental reps and still come back on
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Speaker 1: Thursday Friday and still perform at a high level on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And how he's leading the football team and you're seeing
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Speaker 1: the guys around him even you know, get more comfortable
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Speaker 1: with what we're doing as an offense and and just
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Speaker 1: understanding the entire scheme. And and so I think the
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Speaker 1: team is also improving. The offense is improving around Trevor,
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Speaker 1: and and he's just you know, he's that type of
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Speaker 1: guy now that that really you know, wants the ball
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Speaker 1: in his hand and and and I probably couldn't say
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Speaker 1: that first part of the season, you know, but but
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Speaker 1: now he's he's wanting that, and and he's playing well,
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Speaker 1: and we've just got to continue, uh, you know, keeping
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Speaker 1: him on that track. Can you get the ball out
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Speaker 1: of his hands so he doesn't take that hit like
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Speaker 1: he did in New York that one, that one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we had a little conversation after that one last week
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Speaker 1: on the sideline and and those are the things he
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Speaker 1: those are, see, those are the things those young quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: and young moments like that where you know, they're teachable
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Speaker 1: moments for us. You don't want him to take, you know,
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Speaker 1: that type of hit and get thrown down that that
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Speaker 1: hard throw the ball away. Just just get the ball
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Speaker 1: out of your hand, throw it away. You know, you
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Speaker 1: don't get hit. We live to play another down, um,
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Speaker 1: you know. And so those are still the things that
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Speaker 1: still kind of creep up that you know, we're still
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Speaker 1: coaching and trying to coach out of him. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that I think has been apparent this year
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Speaker 1: that he's got comfort and comfort in the scheme, comfort
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Speaker 1: in your offense. And I think part of the way
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Speaker 1: that you can understand and see that is that he's
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Speaker 1: got more confidence using his legs at certain moments. And uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, for a long time, Trevor really didn't want
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Speaker 1: to run. I think he was a little hesitant to
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Speaker 1: run and for whatever reason. But when he does run now,
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Speaker 1: it's like he's more confident and quicker with that decision
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Speaker 1: to do so he is. And and you know, we
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Speaker 1: encourage him to run. Um, get yourself, get the offense
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Speaker 1: out of trouble on a third and five, third and six, third, nine,
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Speaker 1: you know, get that first down even if you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: even a first down to another first down by by
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Speaker 1: running the football, you know, whether it be on a
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Speaker 1: naked bootleg or something like that. And he can just
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Speaker 1: carry it like he did against the Jets a couple
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Speaker 1: of times. And you know, those are all things that
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Speaker 1: we encourage him to do. Be smart about it, protect himselves,
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Speaker 1: and and those are those are meaningful, big plays that
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Speaker 1: keep your offense on the field number one, and and
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Speaker 1: really put you in a position to score points once
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Speaker 1: you get down into the red zone. All right, coach,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the Microsoft service and get a social
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Speaker 1: media question for you about the upcoming opponent. Who is
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Speaker 1: the most important player to stop to win on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: This is from att Nick Pope Joy And yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: obviously more than one. I'm sure. With the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned it. They're playing hard football right now, playing
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Speaker 1: tough for Levy Smith. But who stands out on that team?
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna tell you this, This team has
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Speaker 1: changed just a little bit now. You know, offensively, Davis
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Speaker 1: Mills and in In drist All, these two quarterbacks. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a two headed monster right now.
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Speaker 1: They've they've lost some of their you know, the their
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Speaker 1: top running back obviously, and and they're using these quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: now and and kind of a dual threat. You know,
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Speaker 1: Davis is the guy that can can move around and throw.
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Speaker 1: We know Driscoll can run and and run the R
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Speaker 1: P O game. He did that in college a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I look at those two guys, and then you
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Speaker 1: go back to the Jets and what the Jets did.
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Speaker 1: There was a change of pace when uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: when their their second string quarterback came in against our defense.
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Speaker 1: So that to me is going to be a matchup
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Speaker 1: that that is going to be critical in this football
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Speaker 1: game that we handle, you know, defensively and then I
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's one guy. I mean I would say, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, uh nine six the d lineman you know
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Speaker 1: right now is is A is A he's a train wreck.
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Speaker 1: He's a he's a he's a past protection uh nightmare.
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Speaker 1: Up front, we've he's a three technique. He can he
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Speaker 1: can get after the passer. I I think the guys
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Speaker 1: like that Kirksey on defense, the middle linebacker is a
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Speaker 1: guy that's smart. These guys are downhill and again, it's
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Speaker 1: not about one guy. And that's what That's what you
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Speaker 1: see with this football team on defense is they fly around,
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Speaker 1: they play fast. They they they they you know, can
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Speaker 1: can wreck havoc. They're they're a movement, movement type front,
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Speaker 1: meaning they're gonna they're gonna stunt their line. Their linebackers
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Speaker 1: are downhill and we've got to be prepared for that.
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Speaker 1: That takes. That takes all five six guys, including tight ends,
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Speaker 1: to be able to handle all that movement. You talk
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Speaker 1: about the two quarterbacks system that they run. You know
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Speaker 1: they have Damian Pierce Nico Collins at wide receiver before that,
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Speaker 1: and that's changed. The one consistent thing watching the film,
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Speaker 1: their offensive line is playing pretty well, and I think
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Speaker 1: the consistent hard about them as a team. Their effort
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Speaker 1: has been very consistent as well, which a lot of
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Speaker 1: times you don't see that with a team that has
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Speaker 1: been struggling, struggling record wise. But I mean a lot
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Speaker 1: of that credit's gotta go to Levy Smith because they're
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Speaker 1: playing hard. And the last game they won, But then
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Speaker 1: the two games before that against Kansas City and Dallas,
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Speaker 1: they're right in those ball games. You know, Kansas City
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Speaker 1: they take him to overtime and and obviously I lose
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Speaker 1: that in a close game. Dallas is a you know, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously Dallas did a great job at the
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Speaker 1: end to to go the length of the field. Really
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Speaker 1: they stopped him on fourth and goal and then and
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Speaker 1: took the ball the length of the field. Houston had
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Speaker 1: a chance to go up ten points in that game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right. That's that's what we see
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Speaker 1: as coaches. That's what we see, and that's what we're
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Speaker 1: trying to point out to our football team is this
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Speaker 1: is this is a good football team. You know, um,
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Speaker 1: just like last week. I it's very similar to last
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Speaker 1: week from the standpoint of these guys hustle, They give
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Speaker 1: great effort um and and they fly around and they're
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Speaker 1: playing with a lot of passion. And those are those
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Speaker 1: are teams that are dangerous that really you know, there's
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Speaker 1: they're playing for pride, they're playing to maybe spoil the
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Speaker 1: our chances or whatever it might be. And and they're
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Speaker 1: dangerous football teams. And and so that's why we have
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Speaker 1: to be ready to go in this one. And final
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Speaker 1: thought with it here, you gotta score to settle with
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Speaker 1: this team too. I mean, they got you back in
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Speaker 1: Week five. It's been nine in a row at least
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Speaker 1: historically the last gosh ten twelve years the Texans have dominated.
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Speaker 1: Has had to add series time to avenge that and
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Speaker 1: keep marking these streaks off the list this year, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean there's always it seems like every week there's
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Speaker 1: a there's another first, you know, and and this is
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Speaker 1: obviously another one of those first. If we can, if
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Speaker 1: we can pull this one off, and um, we got
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Speaker 1: to go on the road. You know, we've had a
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Speaker 1: challenge of of playing on the road another dome environment.
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Speaker 1: You know, we struggled last time we were in a
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Speaker 1: dome and those are all those things that creep back in.
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Speaker 1: But again it's my job to make sure that, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the guys are ready and focused and and
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Speaker 1: you know looking ahead to to play on Sunday. Doug,
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Speaker 1: thanks for the time. Is always keep it rolling. Good
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Speaker 1: luck all right, Thank you. Head coach Doug Peterson with us.
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Speaker 1: This is the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Dog Peterson Show continues right now. Welcome back,
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Speaker 1: It's the Dog Peterson Joe J. P. Shatrick with Jeff Logan.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to head coach Doug Peterson for joining us in
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Speaker 1: the opening segment each and every week. It is Week seventeen.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars faced the Houston Texans. Oh, the Jaguars are
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Speaker 1: playing everybody, let's go right. I mean, it's NFL football.
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Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a meaningless game, the coach
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Speaker 1: said earlier this week, So full steam ahead. But I
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Speaker 1: like that approach. I mean, it's um, it's what you
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Speaker 1: want to hear. And I think momentum is everything in
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Speaker 1: this game. And to be able to carry momentum going
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Speaker 1: into and the ability to play well. I think it's
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Speaker 1: it's hard to take a week off and then the
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Speaker 1: returned the next week and say Okay, we're just gonna
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Speaker 1: We're gonna flip the switch and be ready to go
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Speaker 1: against Tennessee. I just I just don't think you and
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Speaker 1: do that. I think maybe some teams might, it might
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Speaker 1: be in their best interest of doing that, but I
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Speaker 1: think it's in the Jaguar's best interest to continue to
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Speaker 1: try to win this game in Houston, even though it
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Speaker 1: would help from a tie standpoint, the last game of
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Speaker 1: the year. And I love Doug's approach and was glad
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Speaker 1: to hear him say that, And uh, that's what I
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Speaker 1: was hoping he would say as we were heading in
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Speaker 1: this week. I mean, if you're the Patriots and you
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Speaker 1: have Tom Brady and you've won seven straight division titles,
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Speaker 1: you might have a different approach because you can turn
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Speaker 1: it off and on. Most likely this team hasn't learned
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Speaker 1: how to do that. Yeah, they as John Osan said
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Speaker 1: the other day, they've been good for about three weeks,
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Speaker 1: you know, like they're just I wouldn't agree with that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, his point was that it's a blip compared
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Speaker 1: to some other teams. It's it's fresh, it's cool. They
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Speaker 1: haven't proven it a time and again, and how many
15:50
Speaker 1: times have we heard coaches, players, and many coaches and
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Speaker 1: players say this that it's a week to weekly. Okay,
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Speaker 1: well it is a week to weekly, but there is
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Speaker 1: carry over from a week to week basis, and I
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Speaker 1: think that it's important that you you play well this week.
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Speaker 1: It allows you to can continue that that momentum into
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Speaker 1: a game that's going to be for the playoff marbles.
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Speaker 1: And I hope that the Jaguars can get this game
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Speaker 1: this week, come out of it very healthy, and in
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Speaker 1: a perfect world, you'd find this team to in Houston
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Speaker 1: getting a comfortable lead. And this is hopeful, okay, and
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Speaker 1: this is wishful thinking. Maybe are you locking this? No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not locked, But wouldn't it wouldn't it be great
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Speaker 1: if you got a real nice lead and then you
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Speaker 1: can say, okay, we're gonna cherry pick some guys to
16:45
Speaker 1: take out to make sure that they get refreshed and
16:49
Speaker 1: ready for this big game coming up against Tennessee. I
16:53
Speaker 1: would like that, but then again, the last three games
16:59
Speaker 1: that Houston has played, it's been down to the wire.
17:03
Speaker 1: But we'll see, we'll see what happens with that. Of course,
17:06
Speaker 1: we'll come back at a moment. Jaguars offensive rhythm we'll
17:09
Speaker 1: see if they can get that going keep it going
17:13
Speaker 1: after a couple extra days off around the Christmas holiday.
17:16
Speaker 1: Defensive talk coming up as well. The Jaguars and the
17:19
Speaker 1: Texans coming up. The Texans have won the last nine
17:22
Speaker 1: meetings head to head against the Jaguars, including back in
17:26
Speaker 1: Week five and thirteen to six win here in Jacksonville.
17:28
Speaker 1: This is the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. We
17:32
Speaker 1: are back. It is the Doug Peterson Show and it's
17:35
Speaker 1: JP Shadrick with Jeff Logerman or thanks to the head coach,
17:37
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's winning us to the top of the show
17:39
Speaker 1: five o'clock every Thursday, at least when the Jaguars don't
17:42
Speaker 1: have a Thursday night football game, which they had last week.
17:45
Speaker 1: So it's been a couple of weeks since we've had
17:47
Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show, and the Jaguars since then have
17:51
Speaker 1: moved into first place in the a f C South.
17:53
Speaker 1: The Jags went on Thursday, of course, combined with the
17:56
Speaker 1: Titans loss on Christmas Eve, moved the Jaguars to the
17:59
Speaker 1: top of the A Vision. It all comes down to
18:02
Speaker 1: a week eighteen here at t i A Bank Field
18:04
Speaker 1: for the a f C South Division title. The game
18:08
Speaker 1: day and time still to be announced. After the results
18:11
Speaker 1: of this coming weekend's games, they'll figure all that out
18:14
Speaker 1: and then maybe an announcement late Monday night after that game,
18:18
Speaker 1: or towards the end of that game if it's decided,
18:20
Speaker 1: or Tuesday morning. We'll see what happens with the league
18:23
Speaker 1: has in mind. Yeah, yeah, looking forward to that. And
18:25
Speaker 1: and again I've said this before, I hope that it's
18:27
Speaker 1: a Sunday game. Uh, come alot four o'clock prime time
18:33
Speaker 1: either one, but I hope it's a Sunday game just
18:36
Speaker 1: so that allows the Jaguars to have a full week
18:38
Speaker 1: of preparation on a week that Tennessee is gonna get
18:41
Speaker 1: a lot of rest. What's the next step for Trevor
18:44
Speaker 1: Lawrence right now? Consistency, keep doing's You gotta keep doing
18:49
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And uh, you hope that it's at
18:52
Speaker 1: the same level that he's doing. And he's doing a
18:54
Speaker 1: tremendous job of protecting football. In the last what seven games,
18:58
Speaker 1: he's only had one interception. Mean, that's incredible. He's turned
19:02
Speaker 1: the ball over on fumbles a couple of times, but
19:05
Speaker 1: those can happen. But he's been making really good decisions
19:09
Speaker 1: and the consistency of making good decisions is if you're
19:12
Speaker 1: gonna be a franchise guy, then you have to be
19:15
Speaker 1: able to be consistent at that level. And that's difficult
19:19
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, that's uh. I mean, that's why
19:22
Speaker 1: when you got a guy like Tom Brady who's still
19:23
Speaker 1: doing at the age of forty five or forty six
19:25
Speaker 1: or how old he is, it's like, are you kidding me?
19:27
Speaker 1: You've been doing it for how long? It's it's just incredible. Um.
19:33
Speaker 1: The same thing with Josh Allen, Um, Matt Patrick, Mahomes.
19:38
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are doing it weekend and week
19:40
Speaker 1: out and it's just like no problem. It's just like
19:42
Speaker 1: who they are. Well, now we're like excited because Trevor's
19:46
Speaker 1: turned the corner. Well, it would you want to get
19:50
Speaker 1: to that point to where the conversation is that that
19:52
Speaker 1: that's just who he is instead of man, hasn't he
19:56
Speaker 1: been great in the last seven games? Well, it would
19:59
Speaker 1: be great if you're like, that's our quarterback. Man, he's
20:02
Speaker 1: just he's that good. That's what you're That's where you
20:05
Speaker 1: want to be. It is interesting. He's got the largest
20:09
Speaker 1: increase in passer rating from the first season to the
20:11
Speaker 1: second season in NFL history right now, twenty four point
20:15
Speaker 1: one point increase. Second place was Carson Wentz in sixteen
20:19
Speaker 1: to seventeen two point six, both coached by Doug Peterson,
20:22
Speaker 1: by the way, and third was Peyton Manny. And he's
20:26
Speaker 1: pretty good at the nineteen point five point jump from
20:30
Speaker 1: year one to year two, which is, uh, which is
20:33
Speaker 1: pretty impressive, and uh you always expect some kind of
20:37
Speaker 1: improvement year one to year two, but to see it
20:39
Speaker 1: at number is like, that tells you how big of
20:42
Speaker 1: a difference this is. You go back and you look
20:44
Speaker 1: at Trevor's numbers from last year. He was sub sixty
20:48
Speaker 1: completion rate fifty nine point six. He had twelve touchdown
20:52
Speaker 1: seventeen interceptions, and that's been a complete one. I mean,
20:57
Speaker 1: it's just it's tremendous. His rating was again at seventy
21:01
Speaker 1: one point nine. So we know about the about the
21:03
Speaker 1: big jump there that you were just talking about. But
21:06
Speaker 1: those numbers that I'm referring to, the touchdowns and interceptions.
21:10
Speaker 1: Last year, again he had twelve touchdowns, so this year
21:13
Speaker 1: he's got twenty four, so he's doubled. It was still
21:16
Speaker 1: two games to go last year he had seventeen interceptions
21:20
Speaker 1: and this year he only has seven. That's a big jump,
21:24
Speaker 1: I mean big jump. When we're all hopeful that there
21:27
Speaker 1: would be big improvement from year one to year two.
21:29
Speaker 1: I mean we were all hopeful, But did we ever
21:33
Speaker 1: imagined that it would be to this level. I think
21:36
Speaker 1: if anybody actually thought that it would be at this level,
21:39
Speaker 1: then they like to hear themselves and prop themselves up
21:43
Speaker 1: as being highly important. But I don't think anybody imagined
21:46
Speaker 1: that kind of improvement. Your name names who's doing that.
21:51
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that if anybody thought that it could
21:54
Speaker 1: be that, that's a tremendous job. And and credit to
21:58
Speaker 1: Trevor because it's you know. And and here's the other thing.
22:03
Speaker 1: He didn't do it alone, right, That's that's and that's
22:07
Speaker 1: important to remember, and that he didn't do it by himself.
22:11
Speaker 1: He did it with some great coaching. And he's doing
22:15
Speaker 1: it with some great coaching that he's getting right now.
22:19
Speaker 1: And that's from his positional coach Mike McCoy, to the
22:22
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Press Taylor, to the head coach play caller
22:27
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, to the outstanding coaching that they're getting across
22:31
Speaker 1: the board on the offense and everybody's getting better. But
22:34
Speaker 1: then also the unselfishness that his weapons play the game with.
22:40
Speaker 1: I think you can't you can't underestimate that because you
22:44
Speaker 1: have Christian Kirk, Za Jones, Evan Ingram, Marvin Jones Jr.
22:50
Speaker 1: Jamal add New Travis et n an offensive line. I mean,
22:53
Speaker 1: everybody has contributed to that. And it's great to have
22:57
Speaker 1: a young quarterback that has a cast of guys around
23:01
Speaker 1: him that love ball, that loved a practice that I
23:06
Speaker 1: mean really loved the practice. Because if you've got guys
23:09
Speaker 1: that are a diva, it becomes harder for a quarterback.
23:13
Speaker 1: And so I mean credit to the staff for bringing
23:17
Speaker 1: in guys of that caliber and of that makeup to
23:22
Speaker 1: surround a young quarterback with. That can't be understated. All
23:26
Speaker 1: three are approaching, if not surpassing, career highs in different
23:30
Speaker 1: metrics already with two games to go. We're talking about
23:33
Speaker 1: Za Jones, Christian Kirk, Evan Ingram especially and only Evan
23:38
Speaker 1: Ingram because Ja is a a career high and Evan
23:43
Speaker 1: Ingram has now achieved career high numbers with two catches,
23:48
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk will achieve career highs and catches, He's already
23:53
Speaker 1: had a career high in yards. He needs Christian does
23:56
Speaker 1: twelve yards to reach a thousand. I mean, it's just
23:59
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I mean, even going down to Jamachael HASTI
24:02
Speaker 1: Jamachael Hasty's having a career year. Okay, if you look
24:06
Speaker 1: at touches in yardage output, rushing, receiving, he is at
24:10
Speaker 1: a career high himself. And to your point about you know,
24:13
Speaker 1: if if one guy is having a big game, the
24:15
Speaker 1: other guy's prop them up, there's no divas. That the
24:18
Speaker 1: play to Evan Ingram last week, where's a Jones and
24:20
Speaker 1: Christian Kirker out lead block? That's the play I did
24:22
Speaker 1: in social media and I showed that play on social
24:25
Speaker 1: media and U and it was two plays that I
24:29
Speaker 1: showed by Evan Ingland. That was one of the that
24:30
Speaker 1: was the first play, and I think it's out there
24:32
Speaker 1: already and it was a tight end screen and you
24:36
Speaker 1: got Christian and Za out front leading the way on
24:39
Speaker 1: a block and and they do a great job. In fact,
24:42
Speaker 1: I think Christian blocks two guys and then the guy
24:45
Speaker 1: that has to make the tackle is the linebacker from
24:47
Speaker 1: Alabama what's his name again? The middle linebacker for the Jets.
24:53
Speaker 1: I'm we're onto the the texts. Anyway, he makes the
24:56
Speaker 1: tackle way down the field. C J B me mostly
25:00
Speaker 1: thank you. That's that's what you want to have. And
25:04
Speaker 1: I think that's the amazing thing. And so when you
25:08
Speaker 1: I think, when you move forward and you're looking to
25:11
Speaker 1: add pieces, if you can continue to find guys like that.
25:15
Speaker 1: And I know it's hard because every now and again
25:17
Speaker 1: you're gonna find a Key Shaw and he's a great
25:19
Speaker 1: player and he's gonna want the damn ball. But you've
25:22
Speaker 1: got to be able to make sure that you can
25:24
Speaker 1: try to get those unselfish players like that. They're about team.
25:27
Speaker 1: And there was a quote this week by Za Jones
25:30
Speaker 1: and you'll probably remember it, and I think he was
25:32
Speaker 1: talking to you, j P. And he said that, look,
25:35
Speaker 1: we're all pieces to a puzzle, and when players really
25:38
Speaker 1: understand that, I think he got a great chance for success.
25:41
Speaker 1: And that was it was great to hear that from
25:44
Speaker 1: Z Jones. Let's come back Jaguars defensive talk. When we return,
25:48
Speaker 1: how do they match up this week against the Houston Texans?
25:51
Speaker 1: Can they continue to take the football away? A lot
25:53
Speaker 1: of questions down the stretch with the Texans this week
25:57
Speaker 1: and then the Tennessee Titans looming in Week eight. Team
26:00
Speaker 1: for all the marbles in the a f C South.
26:03
Speaker 1: This is the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
26:12
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now. Welcome
26:17
Speaker 1: back j P. Shatrick with Jeff Logaman, Brent Reaver and
26:22
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunato are with us as well. It's Week seventeen.
26:28
Speaker 1: The Jaguars stays the Houston Texans our thanks to head
26:31
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson joining us to the opening segment each
26:33
Speaker 1: and every week. All Right, the Jaguars defense on Thursday
26:36
Speaker 1: Night Football, they were up against sudden change fumble. They
26:41
Speaker 1: get the blitz on third down, sack him and then
26:43
Speaker 1: hold him to a field goal and then shut them
26:46
Speaker 1: out the rest of the night. Solid effort. Had to
26:49
Speaker 1: get it done, got it done. I thought you were
26:51
Speaker 1: onto the Texans and we're moving on. My point is,
26:54
Speaker 1: how do they carry that momentum forward to the Houston
26:58
Speaker 1: Texans this week? A team that you know they're they're
27:01
Speaker 1: losing pieces, but I mean they're in the last three games,
27:04
Speaker 1: they won last week and you I mean, Nashville is
27:07
Speaker 1: nasty weather, all that, but they still won the football game,
27:09
Speaker 1: figured it out, got it done. So what's the matchup
27:13
Speaker 1: this week to to look out for for this Jaguars defense?
27:16
Speaker 1: How can they exploit it against Houston? Uh? Well, I
27:19
Speaker 1: think the challenge this week is the two quarterback system
27:23
Speaker 1: and that that's kind of interesting and as a defense,
27:26
Speaker 1: you've got to kind of change your mindset when you
27:28
Speaker 1: have Davis Mills and their versus Driscoll, and that can
27:32
Speaker 1: be different and I think I think even defensive coordinator
27:35
Speaker 1: might call it, well, may call the game differently based
27:38
Speaker 1: upon which quarterback is in there and Mills being more
27:43
Speaker 1: of the classic dropback drift calls more of the read
27:46
Speaker 1: option type guy, and drift call has got some great speed.
27:50
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have seen him around here,
27:52
Speaker 1: you know, from his time in college, so he's he's
27:55
Speaker 1: a good football player. But that's the challenge. But the
27:57
Speaker 1: defense has got to remain opportunistic and that's I think
28:00
Speaker 1: been the real key thing for them defensively over the
28:03
Speaker 1: last couple of games against Dallas Cowboys obviously had a
28:07
Speaker 1: couple of key stops. They're kind of struggling to stop
28:09
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The backs were kind of controlling the temple
28:12
Speaker 1: of the game, get a couple of key stops there
28:14
Speaker 1: at the end, and of course the walk off pick six,
28:17
Speaker 1: which was a big ball game. And then against Tennessee,
28:20
Speaker 1: you didn't start great against Derrick Henry, but you started
28:23
Speaker 1: to clean it up there towards the end, and then
28:25
Speaker 1: the offense score some points makes it more difficult for
28:28
Speaker 1: the game flipped there and then took advantage of you.
28:30
Speaker 1: Just you just have to remain opportunistic and and just
28:34
Speaker 1: get better incrementally. And I think they did a little
28:36
Speaker 1: bit of that against the Jets. And part of the
28:38
Speaker 1: reason that helped is that the Jets aren't a great offense. Yes,
28:44
Speaker 1: and Zack Wilson was a quarterback and he's not very good.
28:48
Speaker 1: And isn't it good to be a Jaguars fan as
28:51
Speaker 1: opposed to being a Jets fan right now? With the
28:53
Speaker 1: quarterbacks you can say that again? Oh yeah, I mean
28:56
Speaker 1: I've never have you ever seen a second year quarterback
29:01
Speaker 1: get booed like that? I mean, how do you as
29:05
Speaker 1: an organis that's tough for them? You know? I mean
29:08
Speaker 1: I just don't see I don't see that getting better.
29:11
Speaker 1: What's the resolution there? I don't know who knows that's serious,
29:13
Speaker 1: you though. I mean, Zach Wilson's got a guarantee contract.
29:16
Speaker 1: He can't give up on him at at this point.
29:21
Speaker 1: But the reality is is that you need to bring
29:23
Speaker 1: in competition because some of the statements that he made
29:28
Speaker 1: earlier in the year shows a clear lack of maturity
29:33
Speaker 1: and a lack of understanding the way reality is in
29:36
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and he's learned the hard way
29:40
Speaker 1: and the fans have given him a hard lesson, and
29:42
Speaker 1: so now it's up to him to get better in
29:45
Speaker 1: New York. But that's their problem and that's not ours.
29:49
Speaker 1: We'll come back in a moment. Injury report is out.
29:51
Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little later. Social media question
29:54
Speaker 1: for your lives. Oh you're the big social media. Maybe
29:58
Speaker 1: check my social media the account. We already got one.
30:02
Speaker 1: We've share you got for you, we got you take
30:04
Speaker 1: you look. I mean it's Twitter. It's a free website
30:06
Speaker 1: for now. You can check it out. Hey, it's the
30:08
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back. The Dog
30:15
Speaker 1: Peterson Show continues right now, and welcome back. It is
30:19
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30:25
Speaker 1: Layer Gator Bowl returns to the Bank tomorrow. The number
30:28
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30:36
Speaker 1: Layer Gator Bowl dot com. There are a few tickets remaining,
30:40
Speaker 1: not many big crowd expected tomorrow afternoon here at t
30:44
Speaker 1: i A Bank Field. Are you you gonna be here
30:47
Speaker 1: for the game? I'll be here for a little bit.
30:49
Speaker 1: We got regular Jaguar work during the day, so I'll
30:51
Speaker 1: do all the Jaguars stuff. I might stay for a
30:53
Speaker 1: little bit and then uh carry on. Well, I hope
30:56
Speaker 1: South Carolina's equipment truck made it. They were driving around
31:00
Speaker 1: the stadium this morning trying to figure out where to go.
31:03
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well they were at least they made it
31:05
Speaker 1: to the stadium. That's step one, just finding the right portal.
31:08
Speaker 1: They were circling Lot J and I'm going, um, they're
31:12
Speaker 1: trying to find a locker room. Maybe Nick Fatawa and
31:15
Speaker 1: the field crew have done a great job obviously all
31:17
Speaker 1: year with all the changes of the Jaguars schedule, changing
31:20
Speaker 1: the field and everything. But of course it's Uh, it's
31:22
Speaker 1: guss eat up and looking really great for the Gator
31:24
Speaker 1: Bowl coming up tomorrow, and then it'll be turned around
31:28
Speaker 1: and looking really good for the jaguars last game against
31:31
Speaker 1: Tennessee Tits. Kudos to the guys that take care of
31:33
Speaker 1: the grounds here at the Bank. They had to change
31:35
Speaker 1: that field numerous times, like take the grass out all
31:38
Speaker 1: the john I mean it's I mean, it's incredible, it
31:41
Speaker 1: really is nice. So I hope you'll make it out
31:43
Speaker 1: of the Gator Baltimore. Always a great time, but a
31:45
Speaker 1: really good game this year, battle of eight and four
31:48
Speaker 1: teams Notre Dame in South Carolina. So the injury report
31:52
Speaker 1: is outlogs and the Thursday report. All these Jaguars players
31:56
Speaker 1: were limited today. We'll start with the players that do
31:59
Speaker 1: not practice Wednesday. Trevor Lawrence was limited today with his
32:03
Speaker 1: toe injury. But the last couple of weeks has been
32:05
Speaker 1: the same um idea there don't practice Wednesday, get out
32:09
Speaker 1: there Thursday or Friday. Ross Madisick, long snapper, did not
32:13
Speaker 1: practice yesterday, limited today with a back issue, back spasms,
32:17
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson called it. So they've signed a veteran long
32:20
Speaker 1: snapper to the practice squad. Just in case on game
32:24
Speaker 1: day maybe he wakes up and things aren't going well.
32:26
Speaker 1: Safety Andrew Wingered with a shoulder limited both days. Trayvon
32:30
Speaker 1: Walker limited both days. That's a step in the right
32:33
Speaker 1: direction with his ankle issue. Randon Sheriff veteran offensive lineman,
32:37
Speaker 1: the guard with an abdomen issue and an ankle issue
32:40
Speaker 1: battling through it's limited both days, but he's out there
32:44
Speaker 1: and fully fought. A Kassi with an ankle issue limited
32:47
Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday. What stands out from those, um, Well,
32:51
Speaker 1: I mean, Trayvon Walker would be nice to get him back,
32:54
Speaker 1: you know, especially with the injury to smoot and hopefully
32:57
Speaker 1: he can work his way back, but you want to
33:00
Speaker 1: make sure that he's good to go before he goes
33:02
Speaker 1: back out there. But losing, losing smooth like that, that hurts.
33:07
Speaker 1: And hopefully Trayvon is good to go, hopefully can be
33:11
Speaker 1: healthy and productive. And Botakasi be nice to get him back,
33:15
Speaker 1: but back playing well, you know, prior to missing his
33:20
Speaker 1: past game, it's just kind of been okay. I need
33:23
Speaker 1: to get him back playing well, you know, because he
33:25
Speaker 1: was playing pretty well earlier in the year and then
33:28
Speaker 1: the injuries have slowed him wanted him to get back
33:31
Speaker 1: into that groove where he's been the rest of the injuries.
33:37
Speaker 1: I mean, the concern about your long snapper, because you know,
33:39
Speaker 1: the snaps in New York were high, a little concerning,
33:44
Speaker 1: and will Madison be ready to go if not. The
33:47
Speaker 1: veteran guy that they signed, uh, what's his name again
33:51
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, he's got he's like a hundred
33:53
Speaker 1: and sixties some games played, so he's a veteran guy,
33:57
Speaker 1: which is nice to be able to have a veteran
33:59
Speaker 1: guy if you need to elevate him from the practice
34:03
Speaker 1: squad for a game day. His name is Garrison Sandborn. Sanborn,
34:08
Speaker 1: That's what it was. He was with the Bills from
34:11
Speaker 1: odin in to sixteen and then Tampa Bay seventeen and eighteen,
34:15
Speaker 1: niners and nineteen. So it's been a little bit. He's
34:17
Speaker 1: been around a lot. Yeah, he's been around a lot.
34:19
Speaker 1: So that's a you know, pull something to keep an
34:21
Speaker 1: eye on. Pull a cord an emergency. Here's the reality.
34:26
Speaker 1: You've had a first time kicker with the Jaguars. Okay,
34:31
Speaker 1: first time with the Jaguars who has been pretty good,
34:34
Speaker 1: and congratulations to him. An FC Special Teams Player of
34:37
Speaker 1: the week, by the way, correct, And so you would
34:39
Speaker 1: like to be able to make sure that that operation
34:43
Speaker 1: goes without interruption, because sometimes when you have a change
34:48
Speaker 1: of a snapper, change of the holder, it can it
34:50
Speaker 1: can change the chemistry a little bit in the timing.
34:53
Speaker 1: So you would like to make sure that you try
34:55
Speaker 1: to keep that as as solid as you can. So
34:57
Speaker 1: that's something I think to definitely keep an eye on
35:00
Speaker 1: going forward, and hopefully everybody else is trending in the
35:04
Speaker 1: right direction. Logs, we're gonna come back and get an
35:06
Speaker 1: answer out of you. What do you got with answer
35:09
Speaker 1: to what a social media question? We're gonna go to
35:12
Speaker 1: the Microsoft surface. We're gonna get answered looking at some
35:15
Speaker 1: of these questions. There some good ones, good question, there's
35:18
Speaker 1: some good ones. There's some that are you know, but
35:22
Speaker 1: there's some good ones and we'll pick a good one
35:24
Speaker 1: when we come back. It's the Dog Peterson Show on
35:26
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show
35:40
Speaker 1: continues right now, we're back. Maybe it's the Doug Peterson Show,
35:44
Speaker 1: presented by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
35:47
Speaker 1: It's week seventeen. The Jaguars in the Houston Texans at
35:50
Speaker 1: n RG Stadium one o'clock Eastern kickoff time. We're on
35:54
Speaker 1: the air on the network at noon with countdown to
35:56
Speaker 1: kick off this Sunday. As the Jaguars trying to continue
35:59
Speaker 1: away in streak and keep the momitting building towards the
36:03
Speaker 1: week eighteen matchup against the Tennessee Titans. You at t
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Speaker 1: i A Bank Field for all the marbles. The a
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Speaker 1: f C South Division title will be on the line.
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Speaker 1: There are limited tickets available for that game, but they
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Speaker 1: are going fast. Playoff tickets are for sale. That's a
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Speaker 1: league rule. Any team that's in first place December fifteen
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Speaker 1: or later must put playoff tickets, potential home playoff game
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Speaker 1: tickets on sale. The Jags have done that as well,
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Speaker 1: and if you buy tickets, they will be refunded if
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Speaker 1: there's not a playoff game. Correct. So all that's going on,
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Speaker 1: But the Jaguars have to handle business or want to
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Speaker 1: handle business, and they need to in Houston this week.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to social media. Will go to the Microsoft
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Speaker 1: Surface and check out what we have on Twitter. This
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Speaker 1: is from an evan off Joel, how would you evaluate
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Speaker 1: Walker Little's performance? Well, of course, the second year tackle
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Speaker 1: loogs Um. You know, a couple of weeks ago, played
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Speaker 1: fifteen snaps at right tackle, then flipped over and played
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Speaker 1: fifteen snaps at left tackle. Last week started at left tackle.
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Speaker 1: Well do you think so far? I thought he's doing
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Speaker 1: a pretty good job. I mean that was his only
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Speaker 1: his fourth career start, and for a fourth career start,
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Speaker 1: I thought he showed some some nice athleticism. He gave
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Speaker 1: up a few pressures, but I thought was solid. And uh,
37:22
Speaker 1: you know, as long as he keeps getting better because
37:25
Speaker 1: he's still I mean, look, he's a second year player,
37:28
Speaker 1: and the reality is a lot of people expect him
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Speaker 1: to be an immediate impact guy because okay, he was
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Speaker 1: a second round pick and we were told that he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, starting caliber tackle. He's still young,
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Speaker 1: and he's still getting better. The first game that he
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Speaker 1: played this year, a couple of games ago against Dallas,
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Speaker 1: you know, had some plays that weren't so good. Uh
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Speaker 1: had like twenty snaps I think in that game, ORTI
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Speaker 1: on each side, he had like four pressures and one
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Speaker 1: of those plays ended up having Cam Robinson get his
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Speaker 1: knee hurt on which was against Michael Parsons. Okay, great player,
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Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. And then his
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Speaker 1: past game he settled down a little bit. I had
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Speaker 1: a pressure that was early, but he did give up
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Speaker 1: a couple of pressures. But I look, every team I
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Speaker 1: think in the league would love to have a backup
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Speaker 1: like Walker a Little. I can tell you that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's not a lot of teams in the league to
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Speaker 1: have a backup like Walker a Little with that athleticism,
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Speaker 1: that length and uh. And I'm sure he's looking forward
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Speaker 1: to this game too. By the way, he was Piscopal
38:28
Speaker 1: High School in Houston, he said, which is, you know,
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Speaker 1: not the Episcopal High School here, but the Episcopal High
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Speaker 1: School in Houston, where he was rated one of the
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Speaker 1: top players coming out of high school in the nation.
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Speaker 1: So pretty cool. But anyway, he's doing a good job. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The question to have is how much of what we're
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Speaker 1: seeing from him and his development as it goes is
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, he didn't play the last two years
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Speaker 1: of college before he came in the DRAMT that's a
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Speaker 1: lot of it. You have to think about that. So
38:57
Speaker 1: you gotta go play to get better, right, didn't play
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Speaker 1: in college because of COVID. Okay, we have the knee injury,
39:04
Speaker 1: then Covid exactly, so Nie Covid and then still drafted
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Speaker 1: in the second round. So he hasn't played a lot
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Speaker 1: of football, and then this is only his fourth start
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Speaker 1: in two years. That's a long time without playing football,
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Speaker 1: and so it takes time to get better. And that's
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Speaker 1: a position. Look, there's a lot of positions that in
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Speaker 1: the league that guys can kind of hit the ground running,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, but offensive line is not one of them.
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Speaker 1: That's that's a position that takes reps. It's technique, it's angles,
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Speaker 1: and all of those things need repetitions to be able
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Speaker 1: to function. The one thing I will say about the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive line group is I think they got an
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Speaker 1: excellent coach in Phil ralsher And and I'm not saying
39:47
Speaker 1: that the blow smoke up anybody's rear end or anything.
39:51
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that the Jaguars offensive line coaches outstanding.
39:56
Speaker 1: And it's been a joy to watch this offensive line
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Speaker 1: group this year. I think they've gotten better across the board.
40:02
Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor's past protection has been outstanding. Cam Robinson's angles
40:08
Speaker 1: and his footwork has improved dramatically. And uh, and look
40:13
Speaker 1: that's a lot of coaching because the other coach that
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Speaker 1: they had, which is now coaching the Houston Texans, which
40:21
Speaker 1: is actually he's doing a good job with Houston's offensive line.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't see the improvement that I wanted to
40:28
Speaker 1: see in the last couple of years here in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: So so yeah, but I would have liked You have
40:34
Speaker 1: to pick the question from Alex Read for Coach Peters,
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Speaker 1: the one that coach he asked of Coach Peterson, He's
40:42
Speaker 1: gonna ask vanilla or chocolate ice cream on victory mondays,
40:45
Speaker 1: he was gonna ask that a douge. You didn't pick
40:47
Speaker 1: that one, and this one said both. But this one
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Speaker 1: from st Aggie Renee, I think I said that correctly.
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Speaker 1: She wants answers or he wants answers. I'm not sure
40:59
Speaker 1: if it's a bloy girl. Okay, are we flexing the
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Speaker 1: Titans games Saturday? Question mark? I don't know yet what
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Speaker 1: colors are we wearing? Question mark. I don't think I've
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Speaker 1: seen that these are important questions. I need answers too,
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Speaker 1: so I can plan. Exclamation point, We'll be there no
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Speaker 1: matter what, sharing the Jags on the victory exclamation point.
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Speaker 1: Awesome stuff. I think it's got a match with the
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Speaker 1: team's wearing, right, if you were, they're wearing tel what's
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Speaker 1: your favorite uniform color? I think the teal over the uh,
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Speaker 1: the white, I think, yeah, how are you? I kind
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Speaker 1: of like the allteal. I kind of like that. All
41:38
Speaker 1: black is kind of good too. I'm not I'm not
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Speaker 1: a fan of the all black. We're I mean, we're teal.
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Speaker 1: So it's either got to be all teal or till
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Speaker 1: jerseys and white pants. They could wear polka dots with stripes.
41:50
Speaker 1: I wouldn't care as long as I win. That's fine.
41:53
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. JP. No offense to polka
41:56
Speaker 1: dots or stripes. We're back in a moment and our
41:58
Speaker 1: final thoughts for this Jaguars Tech Sin's game. It's the
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back. The Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show continues right now. Welcome back. Final moments of
42:15
Speaker 1: The Doug Peterson Show. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Logavan.
42:19
Speaker 1: The things that are being said and done in the
42:21
Speaker 1: commercial breaks I think are downright embarrassing in here. Well,
42:24
Speaker 1: good thing they don't make air at least right now,
42:27
Speaker 1: My goodness. I mean there's just this is the National
42:31
Speaker 1: Football League. Yeah, that's right. So the Jaguars have the
42:36
Speaker 1: text not being done by me, and you know we're good. Um,
42:39
Speaker 1: Jaguars Texans this week, Doug's playing them, They're playing guys
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Speaker 1: are out there. Ain't setting them. Nope, nope, nope. We're
42:46
Speaker 1: gonna go play and rock and roll. Business as usual,
42:50
Speaker 1: rock and roll. You know, let's go. Um. The teams
42:54
Speaker 1: that carry the momentum of the postseason are the ones
42:56
Speaker 1: that usually have the most success. So why not keep
42:59
Speaker 1: keep the ball the ball rolling on this football team?
43:02
Speaker 1: And and here's the reality. You know, this Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: needs to get better if you're gonna make some noise
43:10
Speaker 1: the last week and then into the playoffs. That's right, Okay,
43:14
Speaker 1: they've got to get better because look at the teams
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Speaker 1: that are pull up the number of the teams that
43:20
Speaker 1: are already locked in the playoff wich. Let's take a
43:24
Speaker 1: look at the a f C playoff picture if we
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Speaker 1: can on Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars Social media. But yes,
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Speaker 1: there are a handful of teams that have clinched already. Bills, Chiefs, Bengals,
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Speaker 1: high Powered, all three of them. Ravens have clinched up spot,
43:38
Speaker 1: and the Chargers have clinched the spot. Okay, the Ravens
43:41
Speaker 1: don't scare me as far as their offense because the
43:43
Speaker 1: Jaguars handled them before. Lamar Jackson has been heard. The
43:47
Speaker 1: Chargers worry me. I mean, that's a that's a hot,
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Speaker 1: high powered offense. The Dolphins, if they get to a
43:53
Speaker 1: back with those two wide receivers, that would be a
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Speaker 1: tough matchup, I think for anybody, and in particular this
43:59
Speaker 1: Jaguars foot ball team, that'd be a really tough matchup
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Speaker 1: with the Wattle and Tyreeki Tyree, the Cheetah and the penguin. Man.
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Speaker 1: I know that. Uh, I'm gonna pull us up on
44:10
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, but I woulds and if I can
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Speaker 1: have a few minutes to do it about it. You
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Speaker 1: don't have time, you know, but there there are going
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Speaker 1: to be two of the top ten wide receivers in
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Speaker 1: the league. They are They both are over a thousand yards.
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Speaker 1: Uh TV tonight, quickly, who you got? We have Juwan
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Speaker 1: Taylor and Brett Martineau. Very cool, it's string in spring feed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that'll be fantastic. That's Jeff Lagerman. Thanks to our entire
44:31
Speaker 1: crew head coach Doug Peterson. I'm J. P. Shadrick. We
44:34
Speaker 1: will catch you next time. It's the Doug Peterson Show
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Radio Network.