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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 163 | Reviewing Week 1 Win vs. Panthers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is what been visioned in January.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sir, it's happening here in September.
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Speaker 3: Gonna go on further.
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Speaker 4: Welcome to dag Dam this morning.
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Speaker 5: It's victory Monday here in Duvall and we love the
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Speaker 5: sounds of that. Celebrating their first win of the season
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Speaker 5: after Week one, a win over the Panthers. Let's get
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Speaker 5: into things, Big things brought to you by g e
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Speaker 5: H A Government Employees Health Association and Top Cat Fight. Yesterday,
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Speaker 5: Jagglars were able to come out on top, battling through adversity.
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Speaker 4: We and Powen looked back on his first game as
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Speaker 4: a head coach.
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Speaker 1: Really cool to be sitting, you know, to be standing
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Speaker 1: up here obviously after a win, but I was just
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Speaker 1: really proud to be their coach today with the way
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Speaker 1: that they competed, the way we hit, the way we
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Speaker 1: were more physical, all the things that we kind of
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Speaker 1: wanted to preach about. Now is it perfect and absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're frustrated with some of the penalties that
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Speaker 1: have continued to bite us in the butt that we've
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Speaker 1: we did overcome at times, but it's that's not something
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Speaker 1: we want to get used to doing by any means,
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Speaker 1: and so when you play teams as we go throughout
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Speaker 1: this thing, we cannot do those things and expect to win.
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Speaker 4: Brian, It wasn't perfect.
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Speaker 5: We didn't expect it to be, but it was so
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Speaker 5: nice to see some resiliency out of them, seeing them
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Speaker 5: battle back they had that long rain delay about an
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Speaker 5: hour in the middle of the second quarter, come back out,
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Speaker 5: play well right off the bat then, and to get
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Speaker 5: this victory.
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Speaker 4: But in different ways.
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Speaker 5: Right, we saw them play great defense, which maybe we
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Speaker 5: didn't expect out of the gate. We saw the run
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Speaker 5: game show up. It was multi fasted and it was
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Speaker 5: nice to see.
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Speaker 6: You know, I think the question to ask is were
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Speaker 6: they fast?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 6: If you remember when Liam Cohen was hired, he said
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Speaker 6: he wanted a team that played fundamentally sound, that was attacking,
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Speaker 6: that was situational masters, and that were tough. And we
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Speaker 6: can go through all of those. We don't have an
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Speaker 6: hour and show you examples of all of them. Right,
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Speaker 6: situational masters, how about forty seven seconds remain when Foyer
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Speaker 6: Lucan forces the fumble at the end of the second quarter,
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Speaker 6: and they use forty six of it to set up
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Speaker 6: a field goal to go up twenty to three. The
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Speaker 6: toughness was evident in so many ways. I like what
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Speaker 6: you said, though, resilient because we've talked about that ad
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Speaker 6: nauseum since the end of twenty twenty three, and on
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Speaker 6: the first drive they had to overcome first and twenty
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Speaker 6: second in twenty they couldn't overcome the intentional grounding, but
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Speaker 6: they managed a field goal.
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Speaker 3: There were so many examples.
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Speaker 6: Of when the team stood strong and came back and
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Speaker 6: made a play after they had given up a play man.
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Speaker 6: I was really encouraged because what Liam said he was
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Speaker 6: going to deliver on his first Sunday as the head coach.
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Speaker 3: He did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they won moments, which is what Brian's talking about
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Speaker 2: with situational mass. You know, they got the red zone
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Speaker 2: twice and instead of it being like this hold your
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Speaker 2: breath moment score and it's not always gonna happen, but
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Speaker 2: they got some touchdowns that put them up. And then conversely,
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Speaker 2: the Panthers didn't. The Panthers had the ball inside Jaguars
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Speaker 2: territory twice in the third and couldn't get it in.
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Speaker 2: They didn't master them, and the Jaguars dead. I thought
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Speaker 2: it was exactly what they wanted. Kay, you said it
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Speaker 2: wasn't perfect. It is that such thing in the NFL
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Speaker 2: is perfect. What's perfect is winning the first game as
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Speaker 2: your head coach, which only Doug Marone has done in
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Speaker 2: this franchise.
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Speaker 5: Finding a way to win, it's very crucial, especially in
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Speaker 5: the NFL. Our Second big thing today is going to
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Speaker 5: be runaway. We talked about the run game being a
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Speaker 5: focus for this team going forward. That was evident on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: Not only Travis DPN, but four running backs were dressed
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Speaker 5: and played and all of them contributed.
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Speaker 1: To have all four of those backs contribute today, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, whether it shows up in the status sheet
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Speaker 1: is having all these yards. And obviously EUTNA will get
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Speaker 1: a lot of that praise, deservingly so. But I think
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Speaker 1: that room in general, with Chad Mortan as their coach,
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Speaker 1: have done a phenomenal job getting better and improving all
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Speaker 1: throughout this you know, entire time since we've been here.
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Speaker 4: Really, John a.
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Speaker 5: Lot, I'm talking the off season, how are they gonna
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Speaker 5: find a way to use these guys? They found a way.
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Speaker 5: Travis etn of course having a day. It was nice
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Speaker 5: to see what they talked about in the off season
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Speaker 5: come to life in that first game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what really came to life two hundred yards rushing,
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Speaker 2: which is I guess the most since twenty two when
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Speaker 2: they lost to the Colts in Indy. How perfect was
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Speaker 2: that when you have a coach who comes in talks
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Speaker 2: all off season about running, talks the week before the
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Speaker 2: game about well, we think, but we don't know until
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Speaker 2: we see it. And then when you saw it, you
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Speaker 2: not only had the seventy one yard run, but you
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Speaker 2: had some runs late where they you know, with four
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Speaker 2: minutes to go the game, you felt it was decided,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't absolutely decided, and then they get a
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Speaker 2: couple of long runs in that situation. I liked the
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Speaker 2: way they got all four backs involved. I think Travis
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Speaker 2: will be the guy until he's not meaning until Baseelle
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Speaker 2: Tuton comes along with his speed and makes it happen
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Speaker 2: in that position. But look, they're deep, and I think
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Speaker 2: Cohen's going to play all three of them all, I
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Speaker 2: mean all four of them all season.
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Speaker 6: If you want to be a physical team, you have
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Speaker 6: to be able to run the ball and stop the run.
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Speaker 6: And if you're going to be a team that can
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Speaker 6: run the ball and stop the run, Ky you have
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Speaker 6: to practice it. I go back to the very first
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Speaker 6: day in pads in training camp. The first live team
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Speaker 6: drilled was running the football. Keep in mind we're talking
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Speaker 6: about Trevor Lawrence and Brian Thomas Junior and Travis Hunter.
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Speaker 6: You must run the ball, and the Jaguars did it
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Speaker 6: over and over and over through the preseason. Liam Cohen
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Speaker 6: showed the commitment that offensive line was tremendous yesterday. Not
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Speaker 6: only did they create holes and space for Travis and
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Speaker 6: the running backs to make positive yardage. The quarterback was
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Speaker 6: only touched on the intentional grounding and that may have
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Speaker 6: been his fault because he should have got rid of
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Speaker 6: the ball a step or two earlier. They did a
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Speaker 6: tremendous job. The physical mindset of this team just was
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Speaker 6: everywhere you looked yesterday and it was great to see.
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Speaker 5: Our final big thing today is going to be Double's debut.
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Speaker 5: We talked a ton about Travis Hunter playing on both
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Speaker 5: sides of the football.
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Speaker 4: He did that.
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Speaker 5: It's an evolving situation of head coach Liam Cohen says,
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Speaker 5: it'll probably change.
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Speaker 3: Week to week.
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Speaker 1: That was game one, you know, I think that was
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Speaker 1: week one where you missed ten days or so and
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Speaker 1: there was some, you know, a lot of different kind
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Speaker 1: of coverage changes in the back end for us with
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Speaker 1: some of their formations adjustments. It was a lot those
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Speaker 1: guys had to handle defensively, and so it was maybe,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, a little bit less for him this game.
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Speaker 1: I think it'll only continue to evolve and go more.
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Speaker 1: I thought he played hard on offense. I thought he
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Speaker 1: played fast, he had some good catches, ran the right route.
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Speaker 1: So I can only see it going and expanding from here.
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Speaker 5: Fran we talked a ton about Travis hun Are playing
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Speaker 5: on both sides.
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Speaker 4: Of the football.
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Speaker 5: It was mostly offense in this game, but I think
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Speaker 5: going forward we may see more shifts to him playing
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Speaker 5: a little bit more on defense.
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Speaker 4: But what was your evaluation of what was the offense?
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Speaker 6: Well, we saw what thirty nine snaps on offense, which
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Speaker 6: I think we figured because the Panthers are going to
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Speaker 6: run the ball so much, we only saw six snaps
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Speaker 6: from him, And I think you're right. I think it
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Speaker 6: might change this week when you go up against a
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Speaker 6: team with Joe Burrow to Higgins, Jamar Chase. Who's the
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Speaker 6: best receiver in football right now? I mean, I have
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Speaker 6: nothing to base that on none of us do because
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Speaker 6: it's only the second game for this young man in
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Speaker 6: the NFL. But I would think that situationally, week to week,
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Speaker 6: you might be able to look and just say here
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Speaker 6: we go. But it's there is a strategic element to it.
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Speaker 6: They're figuring that out as they go along. If you
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Speaker 6: ask Liam, I'm sure he would tell you we are
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Speaker 6: going week to week with this thing. I would think
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Speaker 6: that this would be a week you might see more defense.
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Speaker 2: John, Yeah, I think it'll grow in large part when
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Speaker 2: you're playing a big, physical team that wants to run.
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Speaker 2: I don't particularly when Travis Hunter out there taking a
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Speaker 2: lot of pounding trying to stop at two hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty pound running back. So I also think from what
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Speaker 2: Liam said, a part of it was the fact that
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Speaker 2: he missed ten days in training camp. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of information to absorb. He's absorbing it, but he missed
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Speaker 2: that a little bit. But look, he showed some flashes offensively.
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Speaker 2: He's a very exciting player, and even though he's a
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Speaker 2: number two pick in the draft, he's still a rookie.
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Speaker 2: This will grow. He'll come along and we'll find out
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Speaker 2: in the next four or five weeks what this is
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Speaker 2: going to look like.
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Speaker 3: You know, for what it's worth, Kite. He loved it.
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Speaker 6: You know, he came to the podium after the game,
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Speaker 6: and you know, he has not been that effusive, He's
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Speaker 6: not been that normally outwardly, you know, joyful guy that
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Speaker 6: we saw early on. He's been pretty closed during training camp.
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Speaker 6: But he had that great, big smile on his face
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Speaker 6: and he enjoyed it, and he talked with the media
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Speaker 6: about how he knows what kind of player he is
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Speaker 6: and he knows he has to get better and he
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Speaker 6: knows he can get better. I was really impressed just
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Speaker 6: with him and the joy that we saw from him
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Speaker 6: afterwards in his first NFL game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think clearly he was happy to go out there,
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Speaker 5: let it his play speak for him as well, and
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Speaker 5: kind of start that new part of his career.
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Speaker 4: So stay with us here on jag Zam.
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Speaker 5: We got the highlights coming for you after the break
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Speaker 5: here on victory Monday.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it feels great. Where's the direction we're heading? Like
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Speaker 7: I said, you can't take it for what of this
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Speaker 7: We won in a week once. We want to know
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Speaker 7: to start the season, and we're all pumped about that.
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Speaker 7: A lot of work went into it, and we're not
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Speaker 7: no one takes for granted. You know how hard it
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Speaker 7: is to win in this league, so we're all really
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Speaker 7: proud of that. But it's one game, so you know.
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Speaker 3: We got to keep doing it.
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Speaker 5: Certainly is not easy to win in the NFL, so
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Speaker 5: we'll take a dub when we get a dub, but
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Speaker 5: we're going to enjoy it today and we're going to
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Speaker 5: look back at some of the highlights because it was
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Speaker 5: fun and a lot of different things happened. Obviously, there
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Speaker 5: was that huge stoppage in the second quarter, so I
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Speaker 5: felt like we went through different phases of the game
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Speaker 5: as well at different times. But I didn't know if
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Speaker 5: we were gonna be talking a ton about the defense
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Speaker 5: considering where we were last year. But that was the
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Speaker 5: story of the day for me. So Aluiken, probably you
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Speaker 5: know your player of the game in some regards.
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Speaker 6: Player one A for sure. I thought Dewey Winger played
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Speaker 6: amazing football. I mean when he hit people, they went backwards,
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Speaker 6: so he would be one B.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's gonna have a chat with his safety
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Speaker 2: mate and who I'm not sure he made such a
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Speaker 2: bad play on the penalty, but you know there's gonna
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Speaker 2: be a conversation about taking away his touchdown. But I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's obviously all that's fun. I also thought, you can't
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Speaker 2: you can't discount what Jordan Lewis did. I mean, we
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Speaker 2: talked all off season about intercepting and getting hands on
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Speaker 2: the ball, and they had their hands on the ball
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Speaker 2: a lot there for a secondary that was the story
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Speaker 2: in the wrong direction last year. Do you make him
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Speaker 2: play in the ball like that? I don't know how
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Speaker 2: good guyce Young is, but boyd, did they make plays
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Speaker 2: in a way that they wanted to make plays.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 6: Something else worth mentioning is that you know, Eric Murray
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Speaker 6: comes in and he sets that play up there, and
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Speaker 6: you mentioned Jordan Lewis had the interception that ended the game.
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Speaker 6: So two free agents come in and help change the
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Speaker 6: direction of the secondary and of the defense.
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Speaker 3: Great effort all around.
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Speaker 6: On the part of James Gladstone, Tony Boselli and Liam
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Speaker 6: Cohen to identify guys who could help them make quick
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Speaker 6: changes here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were so many times yesterday where we've
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Speaker 2: all been around football a lot. We've been a lot
11:38
Speaker 2: on a lot of training camps where they have their
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Speaker 2: talking points, right, they talk about stuff and you're sitting
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Speaker 2: rolling your eyes. A lot of years the things they
11:46
Speaker 2: talked about came to fruition. How many times did you
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Speaker 2: hear Camp and Eely talk about we're going to be
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Speaker 2: running to the ball, our eyes on the ball. Well,
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Speaker 2: the first interception of the game was Murray with his
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Speaker 2: eyes on the ball making a tip and then Foy
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Speaker 2: and I can able to play being around the ball.
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Speaker 2: So it's my hot take later because I have hot takes. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but this was exactly what they wanted.
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Speaker 3: To be exactly.
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Speaker 5: Let's take a look at this first touchdown drive for them.
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Speaker 5: They got a I will also say on their first
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Speaker 5: drive for them to go on for it on fourth down.
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Speaker 5: We're not going to show that, but being yeah, being confident,
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Speaker 5: being I.
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Speaker 3: Mean attacking right, attack part of fast.
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Speaker 2: He got attack.
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Speaker 3: He said he was going to do it, and I thought, well,
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Speaker 3: here we go right out of.
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Speaker 4: The gate and it worked.
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Speaker 5: So he looks really smart. Yeah, so we liked that.
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Speaker 5: But let's take a look at this touchdown drive. Trevor
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Speaker 5: had a I think a decent day to start. Maybe
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Speaker 5: a little got a little lost in the second half there,
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Speaker 5: but early it looked good. Scrambled and then sets up
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Speaker 5: I did not have on my bingo card that Hunter
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Speaker 5: Long was going to have the first touchdown of the year.
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Speaker 4: But it works for me and I'm here for it.
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Speaker 4: Just just smart.
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Speaker 5: Plays out of the out of the gate and kind
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Speaker 5: of seeing him as we discussed John, making stuff happen.
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Speaker 5: Whether that was the play that was drowned up originally,
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Speaker 5: not this one in particular, but just making his way
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Speaker 5: through the offense and making decisions.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I thought he played. You know, I got some emails people,
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Speaker 2: Oh he's not improving. It's that first game in the scheme.
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Speaker 2: I thought he missed some in the second half, but
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Speaker 2: I also thought there were some throws in key moments
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Speaker 2: and some decisions made. They were the right decisions. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he's ever going to be a top
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Speaker 2: three quarterback in the NFL. He plays like this and
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Speaker 2: builds on this. He's a quarterback you can win with.
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Speaker 2: And maybe people don't want to hear that, but that's
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Speaker 2: where he is now, and I think if he builds
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Speaker 2: on where he is, I think you can get a
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Speaker 2: lot done with him as he grows in this offense.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was better than the numbers would suggest. The
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Speaker 6: numbers seem rather pedestrian. But I thought he was in
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Speaker 6: control and command for most of the game. You know,
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Speaker 6: two plays you'd like back. The first was the intentional grounding.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this is something he still has to learn
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Speaker 6: to do, is understand the circumstances.
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Speaker 3: It's first intent at the nineteen.
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Speaker 6: Yard like, just get rid of the ball, right, live
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Speaker 6: to fight another play, And we've seen from time to
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Speaker 6: time from him over his career, and the other ones
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Speaker 6: put the ball another foot over. Although jac Horn made
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Speaker 6: an amazing play on that interception, just astounding.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's tough to say he'd want to
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Speaker 2: have that one. I mean, he may have missed that
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Speaker 2: throw by six inches. Yeah, it's a touch. I mean
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Speaker 2: he missed one to BTJ. That was a pretty easy
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Speaker 2: throw that you're OK. But you know what I mean,
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Speaker 2: Aber a lot of quarterbacks. Quarterback just throws every now
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Speaker 2: and then. I mean c J. Stroud everything is the
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Speaker 2: best quarterback in the division through four hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: eight yesterday.
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Speaker 3: So let's see what he does. So let's not.
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Speaker 2: Automatically assume that the couple of misses what we're going
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Speaker 2: to see. I liked the way the offense ran and
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Speaker 2: it seemed like they liked the way he controlled it,
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Speaker 2: and I said, all along, they want to get They
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Speaker 2: kept him in a lot of non gray yesterday. Do
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Speaker 2: that for a few weeks and then see how he
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Speaker 2: starts making plays as he gains footing in this offense.
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Speaker 4: For me, clearly the focus was the run game. Yesterday.
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Speaker 5: We talked about all of them contributing, but traves E
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Speaker 5: t his longest career rush there. Ran out of gas
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Speaker 5: a little bit at the end, which he'll tell you himself,
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Speaker 5: but great to see. Kind of Also the block Brent
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Speaker 5: Stranger throws in the beginning to set it up.
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Speaker 4: The whole thing was just that's football. You just love
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Speaker 4: to see it.
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Speaker 6: Well you actually Travis Etn on the pregame show, we
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Speaker 6: talked about him the last couple of weeks. He had
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Speaker 6: a tremendous camp. He seemed primed and ready to go.
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Speaker 6: I thought he ran tough. I've never thought of him
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Speaker 6: as a tough runner. But there were a couple of
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Speaker 6: runs up the middle, and I mean jumping into the
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Speaker 6: middle and then cutting it back.
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Speaker 3: That's the elite cutback there. That was tremendous.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I mean, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: I'm right on this, but it looked when he was
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Speaker 2: a rookie. I think he takes this thing outside. I'm
15:41
Speaker 2: not to work it. The second year. I think he
15:42
Speaker 2: takes that run outside and gets seven yards going the line.
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Speaker 2: He has worked. I've talked to him a little bit
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Speaker 2: about it, and so you guys have too. He's worked
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Speaker 2: at going after that whole inside as we did on
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Speaker 2: that run, and he did a lot yesterday. It's hard
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Speaker 2: for him to be a tough, physical running back because
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Speaker 2: he's not that way felt like Tang Bigsby. But he
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Speaker 2: ran hard and I thought going in that he was
16:06
Speaker 2: going to have a big year. And he's on my
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Speaker 2: fantasy team, by the way, and that and that interesting
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Speaker 2: daybody who's not now.
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Speaker 4: It's really important that he plays, though, but.
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Speaker 2: He really fits. And I said it a million times.
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Speaker 2: I don't think this regime was sure about him when
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Speaker 2: they took over, and he absolutely embraced the opportunity his
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Speaker 2: role and they love him. I mean, he's a big
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Speaker 2: part of this playing.
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Speaker 6: On a fifth year option, and they draft to running
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Speaker 6: backs that they love. If your Travis, you are playing
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Speaker 6: for your future and probably most likely not here. But
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Speaker 6: if he plays like that over and over, he's going
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Speaker 6: to force them to make some decisions. I just think
16:46
Speaker 6: that it's a tremendous opportunity for him. His brother was here, obviously,
16:50
Speaker 6: he had family here for him to come out and play.
16:52
Speaker 3: Well like that.
16:54
Speaker 6: Trevor and Travis were both first round picks from Clemson
16:57
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty one. It's a big year. That was
16:59
Speaker 6: a big moment for Trevor. Yesterday turned out for Travis too.
17:03
Speaker 6: Good for both of them to come through in a
17:04
Speaker 6: big way.
17:04
Speaker 2: Well, he's a pro now, and I think when he
17:07
Speaker 2: was a kid he was maybe a good player. Now
17:12
Speaker 2: he's the kind of guy who.
17:12
Speaker 3: Helps you win.
17:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice to see for him personally successful for him,
17:16
Speaker 5: but also just we talked a ton about that crowded
17:19
Speaker 5: running back room, but we saw success from Travis taking
17:21
Speaker 5: over that main role and then contributions elsewhere.
17:24
Speaker 4: Baseil Tooton looks good.
17:25
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas had a rushing touchdown on that play there,
17:28
Speaker 5: so we just saw so that was great. Let's talk
17:30
Speaker 5: a little bit about situational football. We discussed that force
17:32
Speaker 5: fumble to get the turnover close to the second half
17:34
Speaker 5: after that delay setting up the field goal. So Foy Luke,
17:38
Speaker 5: and we already talked about his interception, but being smart
17:41
Speaker 5: about forcing the football. He talked about when he saw
17:43
Speaker 5: the quarterback leave the pocket. You know, you don't want
17:45
Speaker 5: to go after anybody's head. You don't want to get
17:47
Speaker 5: a penalty. So he said, I'm gonna take my shot
17:48
Speaker 5: at the ball, and that's exactly what worked out for him.
17:50
Speaker 3: Such a smart, heady player.
17:52
Speaker 6: You know, he's a guy who racks up tackle after
17:54
Speaker 6: tackle after tackle, and as in his career, had some
17:58
Speaker 6: of these kinds of plays, but it's not what he's
17:59
Speaker 6: known four So for him to come out yesterday and
18:02
Speaker 6: create two of them that led to ten points in
18:04
Speaker 6: the first half, that's a nice sign for a guy
18:06
Speaker 6: who's playing in a new scheme for the first time.
18:09
Speaker 2: Well look, Liam said it, and the NFL is different
18:12
Speaker 2: than when I started covering. It's now a game of
18:15
Speaker 2: momentum where no lead is safe. At the time, that
18:19
Speaker 2: was seventeen to three games and they're thirty two. You know,
18:23
Speaker 2: in a lot of years that's seventeen ten at halftime
18:26
Speaker 2: you're holding your breath. This year, they get a turnover,
18:28
Speaker 2: go down and score. It's twenty three games over and
18:32
Speaker 2: that turn was in what a forty five seconds, so
18:35
Speaker 2: again a situation. They won a lot of momentum swinging
18:40
Speaker 2: situations and turned it back in their favor and made
18:42
Speaker 2: that game look very comfortable, which it was. Don't you know.
18:45
Speaker 2: I had some emails last night guys of you know,
18:47
Speaker 2: complaining about it and how many comfortable victories have you
18:50
Speaker 2: had around you no matter the opponent as situation. You
18:55
Speaker 2: never felt after that field goal that they were pressured.
18:58
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen a lot in the NFL. It's a
19:00
Speaker 2: good sign they could do that no matter the opponent.
19:01
Speaker 6: And that play to the thirty two yard line before
19:03
Speaker 6: Foyer forced it is another example of what you talked
19:06
Speaker 6: about resiliency. You know, here they are getting backed up
19:09
Speaker 6: and he comes through with the big play. It just
19:11
Speaker 6: felt that way all day that when the Jaguars gave
19:14
Speaker 6: something up, they had what it took to get it back.
19:17
Speaker 5: Let's take a look at that play where we're talking
19:18
Speaker 5: about Trevor's throw. The interception a remarkable play by jac Horn,
19:22
Speaker 5: pro Bowl player at.
19:23
Speaker 4: Corner for the Panthers.
19:24
Speaker 5: But to go up and get it I think, I
19:27
Speaker 5: I think for Trevor normally he he hits that a
19:30
Speaker 5: little bit farther more in stride for tr Again, amazing player.
19:33
Speaker 5: I'm not knocking and saying it was a terrible throw
19:35
Speaker 5: by Trevor by any means. Amazing play by jac Horn
19:37
Speaker 5: to go up and get that ball. But it might
19:40
Speaker 5: have been Travis Hunder's first touchdown if it was a
19:42
Speaker 5: touch higher.
19:42
Speaker 3: Oh, he had a smile on his face.
19:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, he talked in the in his post game that
19:46
Speaker 6: he was going if he grabs that ball, and John
19:48
Speaker 6: you said he missed it maybe by six inches a
19:50
Speaker 6: foot at the most.
19:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just a great play.
19:53
Speaker 2: I kind of wonder if he even missed it. I
19:55
Speaker 2: mean it, I'll give the benefit of doubt that he did.
19:58
Speaker 2: But look, he's a prob player, and this, to me
20:02
Speaker 2: came out of the category of those guys get paid to.
20:04
Speaker 3: That's one hundred million dollar corner.
20:06
Speaker 4: You.
20:08
Speaker 2: If this game was easy, you'd win them all thirty five.
20:11
Speaker 2: Nothing like college.
20:12
Speaker 4: It's hard defense. Though.
20:15
Speaker 5: On the other side, when the Panthers decided to go
20:17
Speaker 5: for it and fourth down a couple of times yesterday,
20:18
Speaker 5: actually to get those stops, that was the first thing
20:22
Speaker 5: we haven't seen around here.
20:23
Speaker 6: Either, the first one, and I don't know if you're
20:24
Speaker 6: going to show that, but the first one on third
20:26
Speaker 6: down to watch Trayvon Walker with one hand take the
20:29
Speaker 6: end of the tackle and close the hole and Dewey
20:31
Speaker 6: wingerd come up and just hit it with forrest. Set
20:33
Speaker 6: up fourth down, they got pressure and then Tyson Campbell's
20:37
Speaker 6: play right here was I don't know the last.
20:40
Speaker 3: Time I saw a play like that on the goal line.
20:41
Speaker 6: I mean maybe Jalen Ramsey against Philadelphia in London in
20:44
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen. But it's been a long time since we've
20:47
Speaker 6: seen a corner make a big time to play. And
20:49
Speaker 6: that receiver, by the way, was bedeviling everybody yesterday with
20:52
Speaker 6: his length and his hype.
20:53
Speaker 2: YEA, they a secondary that was fairly last year. They revamped,
21:02
Speaker 2: they rebuilt, They had plays from guys who've been around.
21:04
Speaker 2: They played from the veteran all season during training camp,
21:08
Speaker 2: I kept hearing from people the key is communication. I
21:11
Speaker 2: don't know that they have Pro Bowl players in the secondary,
21:14
Speaker 2: maybe one, but Eric Murray, winding guard Jordan Lewis. The
21:18
Speaker 2: communication is high and there were no breaks yesterday.
21:21
Speaker 6: Well in confidence, right, I mean, I think at times
21:23
Speaker 6: last year we saw Tyson Campbell tried to do too
21:25
Speaker 6: much because he knew that they had mount Terrek Brown
21:28
Speaker 6: on the other side. That's not Jordan Lewis. You didn't
21:31
Speaker 6: have on Rcisco in safety, not Eric Murray. And so
21:34
Speaker 6: those guys get frustrated and they try to make plays
21:36
Speaker 6: because as the season went along, let's be fa last
21:39
Speaker 6: year that plays it made. So I think there's a
21:42
Speaker 6: confidence level amongst these guys and that they can do
21:46
Speaker 6: their job and not worry about anyone else's and that
21:49
Speaker 6: we saw that yesterday.
21:50
Speaker 2: And you had you had a couple of safeties who
21:52
Speaker 2: can hit. To remember the game in the balance, Eric
21:54
Speaker 2: Murray had a huge play. How to remember it because
21:58
Speaker 2: there were other highlight plays, but maybe some tone setting
22:01
Speaker 2: going on too.
22:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, and talk about tone setting. Jordan Lewis had
22:04
Speaker 5: that interception kind of to seal it at the end.
22:06
Speaker 5: Obviously Dewey's interception I got called back because of penalty.
22:09
Speaker 5: But Jordan Lewis the captain, first year captain. Here is
22:12
Speaker 5: a free agent. Three takeaways in last year they had nine.
22:17
Speaker 4: They're already had a third of their total last year.
22:19
Speaker 2: Well, and this one went back. Sorry guy, it goes
22:23
Speaker 2: back to eyes on the ball. I mean they believe
22:26
Speaker 2: that with playing more zone, having eyes on the ball,
22:31
Speaker 2: that they will get more picks. And they got two yesterday.
22:35
Speaker 2: I'm saying they wouldn't have got them they were in man,
22:38
Speaker 2: but it certainly looked like these were eyes on the ball.
22:40
Speaker 6: Picks the other thing, and there's not a sack that
22:45
Speaker 6: we can really show.
22:46
Speaker 3: I mean one, but forty one.
22:49
Speaker 6: To forty four were in the backfield, and so we're
22:51
Speaker 6: ninety and ninety eight oak Bough and Smooth. I mean,
22:55
Speaker 6: they got a lot of pressure. They didn't get to
22:57
Speaker 6: him very often. They obviously had the game plan to
23:00
Speaker 6: get rid of the ball quickly, but the Jaguars front
23:02
Speaker 6: on defense put a lot of pressure on those guys.
23:04
Speaker 2: We think about what they did too. We talked a
23:05
Speaker 2: little bit during training camp about this decision making, Trio's
23:10
Speaker 2: willingness to go and dress stuff. They went out and
23:13
Speaker 2: got Smooth and on the series we had the sack.
23:16
Speaker 2: He also had a huge stop. I think it was
23:17
Speaker 2: on second down. You bring in some guys who matter,
23:23
Speaker 2: and you feel deeper, you feel better at that spot.
23:25
Speaker 2: So again, there's so many things you couldn't have had
23:28
Speaker 2: in some ways if they had done their little script,
23:32
Speaker 2: they kind of went through and checked it and they're
23:34
Speaker 2: probably walking around feeling very good and they should.
23:35
Speaker 3: Today.
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23:39
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Speaker 2: I think every game makes it feel it's.
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Speaker 4: But Brian, what's your hot take.
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Speaker 6: Forse Listen, every coach talks about physical it's a physical game,
24:42
Speaker 6: but we have not seen a real physical team around
24:43
Speaker 6: here for a while. Liam Cohen said it the first
24:46
Speaker 6: day he was here, and last week it was the worst. Coordinators, coaches,
24:50
Speaker 6: players and the head coach all talked about being the
24:53
Speaker 6: more physical team, and they were. And I'm looking at
24:56
Speaker 6: next week against Cincinnati and I expect this team to
24:58
Speaker 6: go be the most physical team on the field next
25:01
Speaker 6: week against the Bengals.
25:03
Speaker 3: In fact, the next week.
25:04
Speaker 6: The Texans come in and the Jaguars got pushed around
25:07
Speaker 6: by the Texans. So we've got a test in the
25:09
Speaker 6: next two weeks. Can they continue to be physical? And
25:12
Speaker 6: I think they will be next week against Cincinnati, and
25:14
Speaker 6: then can they be the more physical team in two
25:17
Speaker 6: weeks when the Texans are here. I love the physicality
25:20
Speaker 6: that I saw along both lines. I think John that
25:23
Speaker 6: this was the best tackling performance that I've seen from
25:25
Speaker 6: a Jaguars defense since twenty seventeen. I think the mindset
25:29
Speaker 6: is there. They've got the bodies up front, They've made
25:32
Speaker 6: the improvements on both lines, to be a physical football team,
25:36
Speaker 6: and on Sunday in Cincinnati, I expect them to be
25:38
Speaker 6: the more physical of the two teams.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how they wanted to play. And it's sort
25:44
Speaker 2: of segues into my hot takes hearing that John, But
25:49
Speaker 2: it's exactly what they wanted to look like. And that's
25:53
Speaker 2: rare that in the opener because it's so weird. We
26:00
Speaker 2: talk about every year how weird the openers are. This
26:02
Speaker 2: one wasn't weird to the Jaguars. They did exactly what
26:05
Speaker 2: they wanted to do. They ran. If you had asked
26:08
Speaker 2: Liam on Sunday morning, do you think you can run
26:11
Speaker 2: for two hundred you probably said yes, you know, do
26:13
Speaker 2: you think you really will? Two hundreds hard to get
26:15
Speaker 2: to and it was the way they ran to the
26:19
Speaker 2: seventy one yard or early, and then they picked up
26:22
Speaker 2: some third downs, they picked up some first downs running
26:25
Speaker 2: the ball. And then to flip it and to talk
26:28
Speaker 2: all off season about turnovers, to say, it's what you
26:31
Speaker 2: wanted to do, to be physical and to get those takeaways.
26:38
Speaker 2: A coach is like being able to I'm sure there's
26:41
Speaker 2: stuff they can scrutinize, but they also like every now
26:44
Speaker 2: and then to say, see, if you do this, you
26:47
Speaker 2: can have these results. I think they got that kind
26:49
Speaker 2: of a game. When you're taking over a new regime,
26:54
Speaker 2: it is important. I think Foya mentioned it for the
26:57
Speaker 2: players to get some success with it, because then they're
27:00
Speaker 2: not in their group text going hey does this really work?
27:04
Speaker 2: You know, there's no doubt this morning from these guys
27:08
Speaker 2: that what they're selling, if they buy, they can win.
27:12
Speaker 5: It's nice to see the words backed up by the
27:14
Speaker 5: act YEA, yeah.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, which really does havep You're talking about young people
27:19
Speaker 2: who are players who if they don't see it, then
27:23
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you doubt it. And they should
27:24
Speaker 2: have a lot of confidence in what in the approach
27:28
Speaker 2: right now after yesterday.
27:29
Speaker 6: Yesterday met the standard met It didn't exceeded right because
27:33
Speaker 6: there were penalties and things like that. But Liam talked
27:35
Speaker 6: about a standard. They met it yesterday and if you
27:37
Speaker 6: continue to approach it and meet it, eventually that standard.
27:40
Speaker 3: Becomes your culture.
27:42
Speaker 5: Mine is a little more player specific, and I'm stealing
27:45
Speaker 5: from Jeff Logerman a little bit because I know this
27:47
Speaker 5: is his favorite player. But for me on this team,
27:50
Speaker 5: Brenton Strange is better than Evan Ingram. Yes, Evan Ingram,
27:53
Speaker 5: also one of my favorite players, had a ton of
27:55
Speaker 5: success here offensively but as a full tight end. If
27:59
Speaker 5: you love football and you go back and watch this tape,
28:01
Speaker 5: you look at travessey Can's long run, look at the
28:04
Speaker 5: block that's set on the left side by Brenton Strange,
28:06
Speaker 5: and then late in the fourth quarter, Tanks Bigsby has
28:07
Speaker 5: a run and he lays out a man with his
28:11
Speaker 5: shoulder And I watched it like ten times already.
28:15
Speaker 4: It's spectacular if you love football.
28:17
Speaker 5: The way he sets blocks, and I truly believe when
28:19
Speaker 5: he says he loves to set a block as much
28:21
Speaker 5: as he loves to catch touches well.
28:22
Speaker 6: And he had four catches and all of them felt
28:24
Speaker 6: like they were important at the time. They were keeping
28:26
Speaker 6: the drive going. So what a complete football player. He
28:29
Speaker 6: was a second round pick who didn't come out of
28:32
Speaker 6: the show as a rookie, and people said, well, he
28:34
Speaker 6: was a second round pick, shouldn't he be better than this?
28:37
Speaker 4: He hasn't always given opportunity.
28:38
Speaker 6: To without a doubt, but he's developed into a pro.
28:42
Speaker 6: Like Traves, he was a good player, and he is a.
28:44
Speaker 3: Really good football I mean really good.
28:47
Speaker 6: He may never make a Pro Bowl because tight ends
28:50
Speaker 6: are judged by the number of catches in the league
28:52
Speaker 6: that values the passing game.
28:54
Speaker 3: But that was a Pro Bowl caliber performance that he
28:56
Speaker 3: put on yesterday.
28:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in another vein of checking every box on
29:01
Speaker 2: the run, Brenton had a great block. The fact that
29:04
Speaker 2: Diame was the thirty five yards downfield blocking. How many
29:07
Speaker 2: times did you hear Liam talking the off season about
29:09
Speaker 2: wide receivers needing the block. Every team tells its wide
29:13
Speaker 2: receivers they need a block, right, doesn't always happen. But
29:18
Speaker 2: these guys have bought into that, and that block gave
29:20
Speaker 2: twenty five more yards on that play. So if you
29:24
Speaker 2: don't get that, you're not at the twenty, you're at
29:25
Speaker 2: the fifty a drive constall, So they really got a lesson.
29:28
Speaker 2: They'll put that on the board this week and say,
29:30
Speaker 2: see this is what we're talking about. It helps you win.
29:33
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Stay with here on Jagszam.
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Speaker 8: For fans, been a competitor, been a football player. We
29:57
Speaker 8: don't work hard to come on here and not put
29:59
Speaker 8: our best foot forward. Well, my little brother on the
30:01
Speaker 8: other sideline, had motivation, kind of wanted to show him
30:04
Speaker 8: how to run the ball, show him how has done so.
30:07
Speaker 8: This is a great feeling just being able to shed
30:09
Speaker 8: a field with him and being able to come out
30:12
Speaker 8: with doings.
30:13
Speaker 4: Big day for the Ecn family.
30:15
Speaker 5: Travis little brother, Trevor, drafted by the Panthers, got some
30:17
Speaker 5: action on special teams. But I wrote about this for you, John,
30:21
Speaker 5: for what a difference in year makes this time. Last year,
30:24
Speaker 5: Traves Ytn fumbles at the goal line and it felt
30:26
Speaker 5: like everything kind of went down the spiral after that.
30:29
Speaker 5: But as I will always give credit to Travis Ytn
30:32
Speaker 5: for he stood up after that game, spoke about it,
30:35
Speaker 5: took you know, ownership of that, and then for him
30:38
Speaker 5: to come out and have such a.
30:39
Speaker 4: Great game in the first game of this season. It
30:41
Speaker 4: was nice to see the one eighty.
30:43
Speaker 2: Look he He's turned into a pro and he was
30:45
Speaker 2: always I've always liked being around Travis. I've always liked
30:50
Speaker 2: it because he's very introspective, and understands running back situation
30:55
Speaker 2: in the NFL. But I said early, if you had
31:00
Speaker 2: have fifty three guys with his mindset, his approach, you
31:04
Speaker 2: can win a lot of games. He's he could have
31:08
Speaker 2: easily gone the other direction. When there was all the
31:12
Speaker 2: trade talk in the off season, all of the you know,
31:15
Speaker 2: you draft two guys. Everybody assumed Tank was going to
31:18
Speaker 2: be the guy, and Tank out rushed him. You know,
31:22
Speaker 2: Travis was the starter, but Tank was really the number
31:25
Speaker 2: one running back last year. He played through it, maturely,
31:28
Speaker 2: went about his business, and he is a pro who,
31:31
Speaker 2: as I said earlier, out of fifty three guys, not
31:35
Speaker 2: all of them, you know, are tangibly helping you win
31:38
Speaker 2: all the time, you know, but this is a guy
31:40
Speaker 2: who does things to help you win. I'm a big
31:44
Speaker 2: Travis fan.
31:44
Speaker 6: We've talked a lot about the running game. Just one point.
31:46
Speaker 6: I don't think we have touched on much. The run
31:48
Speaker 6: defense was really good. I mean, Hubbard had won fifty
31:50
Speaker 6: seven yards on sixteen carriage. They had forty yards from
31:54
Speaker 6: the quarterback scrambling out of the pocket, which is something
31:56
Speaker 6: that Jaguars have to fix. But for them to take
31:59
Speaker 6: a guy who was at the housing yard rusher and
32:00
Speaker 6: a good running football team. They shut the running game down,
32:04
Speaker 6: so kudos to the run defense.
32:05
Speaker 5: Also got out of there relatively healthy as well. I
32:08
Speaker 5: know Anton Harrison left later in the game, so we'll hear.
32:10
Speaker 2: Back really really late. I'm not sure about that.
32:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll have to hear what the severity of
32:14
Speaker 5: that is. But we'll hear from Liam Cohen this afternoon
32:16
Speaker 5: and then we'll be back with you guys here on
32:18
Speaker 5: jag Zam on Wednesdays, we look ahead to the Bengals
32:21
Speaker 5: in Week two. Enjoy victory Monday,