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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, September 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jack Warris, Did you know jackle Jack Warris? Did you
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Speaker 1: know Jenick Warris? Drive Time right and sex steps actually such,
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Speaker 1: Jack Wards. Drive Time starts right now. Drive Time Wednesday Morning,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by the Duval Motor Company, only five
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Speaker 1: days away from game one Week one Indianapolis colet coming
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Speaker 1: to town on Sunday. As we get back on the
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Speaker 1: practic field for some sense of normalcy, getting back into
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Speaker 1: a normal schedule, if you can call this normal. As
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Speaker 1: we bring in Brian Sexton and John Osier and Brian.
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Speaker 1: We listen to Doune Rowns press conference on Monday, and
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Speaker 1: one thing that stood out as he started the press conference, say,
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Speaker 1: you know, four months ago, if you would have told
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Speaker 1: me we'd be here Week one confident we're playing a
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Speaker 1: game on Sunday, I definitely would have had my doubt.
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Speaker 1: And I think we all did well. I would have
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Speaker 1: told you I thought they would have had it back
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Speaker 1: this season. It up because when we first started discussing this,
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Speaker 1: that's what it looked like was going to happen. And
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Speaker 1: you see what some college conferences have done as well.
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Speaker 1: Um I've said it before, Roger Goodell gets a lot
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Speaker 1: of people shooting arrows at him, but he has done
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Speaker 1: a tremendous job, whether it was keeping the league on
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Speaker 1: calendar with the draft and making that happen and of
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Speaker 1: course it came off magnificently, um, and putting the right
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Speaker 1: people in place and asking the right questions about how
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Speaker 1: teams could deal with this and could stay safe. Um.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have gone into It's not just
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Speaker 1: the commissioner, but it was his leadership. And you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully now people continue to do the things they've done
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Speaker 1: so that we don't have any interruption to the season.
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Speaker 1: But um, I thought they might get something going. Now
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Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance they get the entire
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Speaker 1: thing done, and that's the key. What changes now when
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Speaker 1: teams start traveling and visiting other stadiums. But John, the
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Speaker 1: optimists that you are always and ever you always thought
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Speaker 1: we were going to play a full scene and right well,
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Speaker 1: and my glass is completely full, not half full in
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Speaker 1: my life, if you know Schland. But um, I'm not
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Speaker 1: surprised that the season is opening on Sunday, even going
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Speaker 1: back to maybe to lie or June we're talking about this.
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Speaker 1: What I am a little surprised with is that, as
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Speaker 1: Brian mentioned, it looks so optimistic. I've been pleasantly surprised
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Speaker 1: that training camp around the league has not been full
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Speaker 1: of sort of spikes and bubbles and news about guys
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Speaker 1: going on the reserve list. There's been some of that.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody would agree that the protocols to date
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Speaker 1: have done a remarkable job of keeping it out of buildings,
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Speaker 1: and really the players deserve credit. I know it's just
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Speaker 1: training camp. They haven't traveled yet, but it doesn't sound
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Speaker 1: like a whole lot of people have been unsafe away
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Speaker 1: and tried to bring it in. So if that continues,
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Speaker 1: that's the key. So I guess that's about traveling this
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Speaker 1: weekend and whatnot. But it's and said, I don't think
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Speaker 1: anybody would have predicted that it would have gone as
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Speaker 1: smoothly as it's done so far. Credit to everybody involved.
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Speaker 1: M hmm. Agreed. Also starts with the players, everyone holding
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Speaker 1: themselves accountable, holding that locker room accountable for every single
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Speaker 1: team in the league. So let's get into big things,
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Speaker 1: shall we. Big thing one, it's something new. It's the
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Speaker 1: shift we saw around the draft, the doovoll doesn't I
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Speaker 1: remember coach Maron saying at the end of the draft
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Speaker 1: what is so wrong with drafting good guys who are
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Speaker 1: doing the right thing. That's definitely been the shift in
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Speaker 1: the off season. We're seeing it in training camp. We're
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Speaker 1: seeing it with the fifty three guys that made this roster.
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Speaker 1: Doug Marrone says, we're putting team first this season. The
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Speaker 1: talk for the players, the rallying for the players, the
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Speaker 1: team first attitude. Um that you have. I think that
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Speaker 1: you know that that's exciting because you know, you're you
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Speaker 1: feel that some years you go in and you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: if we hit adversity, which way are we going to go?
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Speaker 1: You know, and and you really don't know until you
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Speaker 1: hit it. But this team, I feel very confident in
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Speaker 1: handling any type of adversity. And and we'll get adversity,
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Speaker 1: not not just on the field, but off the field.
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Speaker 1: You know everything. Um, you know that's going on and
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Speaker 1: it will be you know, throughout the year. Um. But
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Speaker 1: I feel confident in in this football team being able
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Speaker 1: to handle anything that's thrown at him. Big thing too,
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Speaker 1: is where did he come from? Philip Rivers has this
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Speaker 1: team's number. There is no other way to put it.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars defense is notorious for having trouble stopping this guy. Now.
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Speaker 1: I think with the Jaguars they have the privilege of
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Speaker 1: playing him twice a season now as the new quarterback
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Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Pole. I think he's always, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: been able to do a heck of a job or stuff.
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for him. He's done
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Speaker 1: that to a lot of football teams. And you know,
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Speaker 1: coming in here and not seeing the film and not
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Speaker 1: seeing you know, what they're doing schematically or anything of
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Speaker 1: that nature. Um, you know, it's tough. You know, you
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Speaker 1: take a quarterback, he's really not going to show him
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Speaker 1: a lot of things that he probably hadn't seen before.
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Speaker 1: So you know, for us, it's just a matter of
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Speaker 1: you know, how do how do we you know, defend them?
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Speaker 1: And finally, big thing three is test time they've practice,
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Speaker 1: they have studied. We know the Jaguars run defense needed
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Speaker 1: to get better, and it's something they've been working on
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Speaker 1: throughout the season, throughout training camp and in the offseas.
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Speaker 1: With acquisitions such as the guy you're seeing right now,
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Speaker 1: Joe Schobert, with Marlon Max coming into town, the Colts
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Speaker 1: running back new draft pick Jonathan Taylor, they have very
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Speaker 1: high expectations for him in Indianapolis. It is going to
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Speaker 1: be a test, to say the least, but a huge
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Speaker 1: test with this running game coming in on Sunday, We're
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Speaker 1: really going to see what has happened with this run defense,
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Speaker 1: with all the moves they've been making. But Brian and John,
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Speaker 1: let's go. Let's start with big thing too. And Brian,
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Speaker 1: I know that you've definitely been paying attention to this.
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Speaker 1: You're a big fan of Philip Rivers, how he carries himself,
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Speaker 1: how he plays the game. But the numbers that you
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Speaker 1: showed me yesterday are definitely alarming. This defense is for
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Speaker 1: a true test against him, and they've had trouble seasons
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Speaker 1: and seasons and seasons ago well, and I wrote that
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Speaker 1: headline where did he come from? Because there's been so
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Speaker 1: many other moves in the a f C South, you know,
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Speaker 1: whether it was Deshaun Watson and his big contract, or
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Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowne he's signing with the Titans, or Derrick Henry
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Speaker 1: or you know, you name him. There's just been so
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Speaker 1: many other issues in the South that people just sort
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Speaker 1: of saw maybe that Philip Rivers signed with the Colts
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Speaker 1: and let it go, And so here we are opening
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Speaker 1: week and it's full frontal. The Jaguars are two and
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Speaker 1: seven against this guy there, two and four at home
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Speaker 1: against him. Um, you go back to that two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four draft and Eli Manning one two super bowls.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with Ben Roethlisberger. So what I'm about to
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Speaker 1: say it sounds ridiculous, but I love this guy. It's
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Speaker 1: the guy I would have wanted to be my quarterback.
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Speaker 1: He's got that John Elway esque competitiveness to him that
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Speaker 1: I just I find so appealing. Um, he's big, he's strong,
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Speaker 1: he get rid of the ball in a hurry. He's
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Speaker 1: got a terrific offensive line. Um, if you want to
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Speaker 1: beat the Colts on Sunday, it's going to be on
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Speaker 1: your secondary. You know in coverage, these guys are gonna
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Speaker 1: have to be on their assignments because it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: tough to get to Philip Rivers. John, We talk about
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. But I know you obviously being an Indie
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Speaker 1: for some time and you've been talking to all kinds
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Speaker 1: of people this week. They're also expecting big time runoff
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Speaker 1: and definitely relying on that this year. So Bryan mentions
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Speaker 1: the secondary, what else does this Jaguars defense have to
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Speaker 1: do well? A couple of things. Um. First of all,
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Speaker 1: I get that Philip Rivers has had great success against
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Speaker 1: the Jags, but typically speaking, when the Jags have been good,
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Speaker 1: they've done okay against Philip Rivers. They haven't been very
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Speaker 1: good during Philip rivers career, and Philip Rivers is beating him.
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Speaker 1: When the Jags were good in seventeen, they beat Philip Rivers,
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Speaker 1: so there may be a little something whereas that just
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is that the Jag wars of struggled for
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Speaker 1: so long, he's been really good to stop him. To me,
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Speaker 1: the key is how good is this run defense? And
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it later. This pass rush, even
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Speaker 1: with the loss of Angoquai, I think can be pretty good.
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Speaker 1: My question is will they be in pass rush situations
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Speaker 1: enough to let Josh Allen be Josh Allen, to let
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Speaker 1: Chase and be the guy that we think he can be.
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Speaker 1: So it's all gonna come back to the run defense,
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna talk about that later, But that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be the key for me throughout the season. If they
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Speaker 1: can get to Philip Rivers, which means stop in the
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Speaker 1: run then I think they can do okay this weekend.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge question for me this weekend. You remember, though,
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Speaker 1: they beat him at seventeen and they had to go
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Speaker 1: to overtime to do it. And he's had at least
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns in every game he's played against them. Philip
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Speaker 1: Rivers is a hell of a quarterback and he has
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Speaker 1: confounded the Jaguars every time they've played, except two thousand
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Speaker 1: and seven when the Jaguars running game was really really strong.
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Speaker 1: It's not a simple is just stopping the run to
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Speaker 1: beat this guy. He's had Peyton Manning esque numbers over
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Speaker 1: his career against this team. H And we just mentioned
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Speaker 1: the run defense is funny. I was talking to Tony
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Speaker 1: Baselli and a TV segment and I was talking about, how,
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Speaker 1: you know, it seems like they made a big improvements
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Speaker 1: on the run defense. Joe Schobert's look great in camp
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Speaker 1: and he's like, Ashlyn, how do you know they barely
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Speaker 1: tackled They haven't played any games. I'm hearing all this
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Speaker 1: hype about how the Jaguars run defense is fixed, but
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Speaker 1: we really don't know. And he does have a great
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Speaker 1: point is we haven't seen any preseason games. We really
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Speaker 1: don't know going into Sunday, Brian, if it truly is fixed. No,
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Speaker 1: there's there's no way to know until they play. And
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Speaker 1: I get the focus on the defensive line, but you
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Speaker 1: showed a photo of Joe Schulbert, and I think he's
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Speaker 1: as important to this as anything. And the numbers that
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Speaker 1: they paid to get him from Cleveland tell you that
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Speaker 1: they think the exact same thing. They need a sure
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Speaker 1: tackler in the middle. Obviously they've got other guys around,
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Speaker 1: but I think Shobert's going to be a key. It's
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Speaker 1: it's one of the big matchups this week. Absolutely gonna
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Speaker 1: look more in those matchups when we come back on
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Speaker 1: on Jack Drive Time, went over things all about that
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Speaker 1: run defense going into Sunday's game against the Colts. And
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Speaker 1: because it is Wednesday, we have the white boards out
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Speaker 1: for Ashland asked all kinds of questions going into this
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Speaker 1: first game of the regular season, John, did you have
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Speaker 1: one Ashland. Ask one which of the sixteen rookies are
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Speaker 1: you looking to on Sunday to make an impact against
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Speaker 1: the Colts. We have all kinds of all kinds of rookies,
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Speaker 1: So which one are you paying attention to? They're right
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Speaker 1: in their work and please hold, I have to wait
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Speaker 1: to write mine because they might take mine technology. Brian Sexon,
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Speaker 1: you look ready. C. J. Henderson. Um, I'll go with
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Speaker 1: the most obvious, right out of the gate first round
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Speaker 1: draft choice at a premium position against Philip Rivers and
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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. Yeah, they better see something from him.
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Speaker 1: I I thought he had a good camp. He didn't
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Speaker 1: stand out as being wow right like Jimen Ramsey did
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Speaker 1: when he came in, but he stood out as belonging
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Speaker 1: and this is not too big for him, and I
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Speaker 1: think he's going to be a terrific player in time.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna find out. Right around the draft. Your guy,
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Speaker 1: Dan Mullen told us that he was the first one
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Speaker 1: on the practice field and the last one to leave,
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Speaker 1: and that his work ethic would make the difference in
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Speaker 1: his career. I'll tell you he worked hard during training camp.
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Speaker 1: So I'm anxious to watch him on Sunday because you know,
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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton is a guy who can make a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys look bad. We're hearing all kinds of
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Speaker 1: great things about Paris Campbell as well, and those cults
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Speaker 1: receivers as a whole looking to take a step in
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Speaker 1: the right direction this year. So talk about a big
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Speaker 1: pest on Sunday for c J. Henderson, John Ozer, Who
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Speaker 1: do you have? Well, there's so many. First of all,
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Speaker 1: when you've got sixteen that's uh, that's more than a
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Speaker 1: quarter of the team, So there's a lot to choose from.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with another obvious one, James Robinson, the
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Speaker 1: rookie free agent running back who's going to start. And
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Speaker 1: I expect and i'd only start, but I expect him
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Speaker 1: to get most of the carries, to be the go
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Speaker 1: to back as much as possible. It'll be more broken
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Speaker 1: up between him and divine A z Egbo than it
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Speaker 1: was with Leonard four Nette in any back, but he's
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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of carries. I think he'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: I think he will be as good as the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offensive line allows him to be um And I think
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Speaker 1: he will. Uh, you know, I don't know about a
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Speaker 1: hundred yards, But I don't think you'll look out there
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Speaker 1: and say, oh my goodness, this is an undrafted rookie.
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Speaker 1: He's very capable of doing this. Undrafted rookies have played
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Speaker 1: well in that position. It's a position where a lowly
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Speaker 1: drafted player can come in his rookie and do well.
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Speaker 1: I expect him to be fine. John, you were on
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Speaker 1: him test, You talked about him before anybody else even
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Speaker 1: mentioned him. What did you see that gave you a
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Speaker 1: sense that he was worth your time to follow? Early? On? Well?
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Speaker 1: In camp, it's always hard to tell in camp, because
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Speaker 1: when we come on here and say boy or running
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Speaker 1: back look good in camp, especially this camp, it means
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Speaker 1: they look good without getting hit, and it means they
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Speaker 1: were moving quickly. But you really didn't see a major
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Speaker 1: difference in quickness or in the ability to hit the whole,
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Speaker 1: in the ability to what you thought were moving away
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Speaker 1: from the defenders in the right way between in four net.
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Speaker 1: Now again, it's all about what happens when you get
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Speaker 1: hit and when you're in the NFL competition. But the
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Speaker 1: big thing that I thought was four thousand, four hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty four yards in college, forty four touchdowns really
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter to the level of competition. He's used to
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Speaker 1: carrying the ball, he is used to being the go
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Speaker 1: to running back, and a lot of people thought he
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Speaker 1: was gonna get drafted. So it was really just a
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Speaker 1: case of looking at the draft and saying, Okay, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people thought this guy would be a fourth, fifth,
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Speaker 1: sixth round pick. He got overlooked. So he has the
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Speaker 1: resume of a guy who can come in and be
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Speaker 1: a quote surprise, We'll see if he can be. And
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Speaker 1: as of right now, that's the starting running back on
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Step chart. Pick that as you wish, whatever
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Speaker 1: that means, and he'll join me on Instagram. Life to
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Speaker 1: Night exchooler much more about him. We haven't even had
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Speaker 1: the chance to talk to the Jaguars starting running back
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Speaker 1: as and now I have the other obvious Colin Johnson
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Speaker 1: Lavisca Chanal. We've heard such great things, You've seen such
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Speaker 1: great things. Let's see what they can do in a
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Speaker 1: game if they get any throws their way. They've made
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Speaker 1: spectacular catches all of training camp. But let's see what
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Speaker 1: happens when the lights go on. All right, AshEL Nas
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Speaker 1: number two? A matchup you are paying attention to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: versus Colt on Sunday, I have misplaced my racer. Please
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Speaker 1: hold all right, John ojor Brian. Second matchup, you're paying
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Speaker 1: attention to who's ready all be ready for And this
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Speaker 1: isn't a true one on one matchup because Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: is not going against Philip Rivers. But Josh Allen, I
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Speaker 1: expect you know this is star player versus star player.
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Speaker 1: And uh, Josh Allen, I've been saying all off season
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Speaker 1: to me, he's the key to the franchise moving forward.
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Speaker 1: He's the hope I have more hope for him then
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Speaker 1: I have a top ten pick for this franchise since
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Speaker 1: I've been back here. Uh. You would like to see
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Speaker 1: him putting Rivers on the ground. You would like to
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Speaker 1: see him standing up after sacking Rivers, Rivers having some
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Speaker 1: smack talk, and Josh Allen just kind of waving him off,
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Speaker 1: which I'm sure he will. You'd like to see a
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Speaker 1: little bit of that, and Josh Allen looking like I'm
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Speaker 1: the guy. I'm ready to be Von Miller for this team.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to be an impact player. I would like
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Speaker 1: him to win that battle on Sunday. Great things from
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen plug for you and oh his own podcast.
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Speaker 1: Definitely learned a lot about him listening to that. All right, Brian,
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Speaker 1: what do you have? I'll go with the Joe Schobert
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Speaker 1: versus Ryan Kelly. The Colts just made Kelly the highest
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Speaker 1: paid center in the game. He's obviously on a terrific
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Speaker 1: offensive line. The jag Wars have made some moves up front,
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Speaker 1: but the guy that they brought in from Cleveland, Joe Shobert,
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Speaker 1: is the key to the run defense. Uh, Jack's play
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Speaker 1: four three. You know he's gonna see Ryan Kelly Ryan
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Speaker 1: Kelly is gonna be looking for number forty seven, So
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Speaker 1: we'll get a look at the show Bert's and his
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Speaker 1: impact on Sunday based on how he does against the
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Speaker 1: best center in the game. All Right, I like if
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Speaker 1: I have James Robinson versus Colts linebacker Darius Leonard, holds
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Speaker 1: defense simple, get effective of their offense is all hyped up,
19:23
Speaker 1: could be one of the best in the league. Haven't
19:25
Speaker 1: heard a lot about their defense. Big test, however, because
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Speaker 1: obviously Darius Leonard a very talented player for the Cold
19:31
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with that running game as we
19:33
Speaker 1: come back. That's Nashela. I'm sorry, we have one more.
19:36
Speaker 1: Hold your horses score predictions. I know it's only Wednesday,
19:41
Speaker 1: but give him to me. What do we think in Sunday?
19:44
Speaker 1: We can be optimistic, we can be realistic, but what
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Speaker 1: are we thinking the score will be on Sunday? Fellas quickly? Well,
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Speaker 1: I'll take this one. Um. I'll go with the Colts
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Speaker 1: in a close one. Um. It's so tough to do
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Speaker 1: this because we haven't seen either team play. Um, but
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Speaker 1: you have sixteen rookies and Philip Rivers is coming in here,
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Speaker 1: and so I'll go with the Colts in what could
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Speaker 1: be a very sloppy game in calling the field goal.
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Speaker 1: Oh alright, close, gating, John, what are you thinking. I'm
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Speaker 1: saying Colts thirty five, Jags thirty one because I see
20:26
Speaker 1: a plan out like this. I think the Jags, a
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Speaker 1: young team, will have some hiccups. I can sort of
20:32
Speaker 1: see him getting behind early and people going Okay, here
20:35
Speaker 1: we go, young team. Whatever. But then I think what
20:37
Speaker 1: Doug said at the top of the show is real.
20:40
Speaker 1: I think this team will handle adversity. I think you've
20:42
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys pulling in the right direction.
20:44
Speaker 1: I think you've got a lot of Twitter geniuses that
20:46
Speaker 1: were on this team who are now gone who won't
20:49
Speaker 1: be fraying the movement towards getting better. So I think
20:52
Speaker 1: they'll come back. I think they'll make it close. I
20:54
Speaker 1: think the jag wars all have a chance to win,
20:56
Speaker 1: and in experience, which could catch up with him a
20:58
Speaker 1: lot this year could cost him, but I think they
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Speaker 1: make a closer to think. I think they overcome some
21:02
Speaker 1: adversity high scoring as well much high scoring in my prediction,
21:07
Speaker 1: which is Colts. We'll see what happens, but I think
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Speaker 1: we all can agree It's going to be a close game.
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Speaker 1: It always is in the division, always a dog fight.
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Speaker 1: c J who has a question for John Osier. After
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Speaker 1: seeing Leonard for Net comments on finally having a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I saw why he cut that is
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Speaker 1: so unprofessional and an uncalled shot at Gardner John, What
23:44
Speaker 1: are we thinking about this? Whatever? I mean? I mean,
23:49
Speaker 1: I thought this about Ronnie Harrison last way. I think
23:51
Speaker 1: about it this week. You know, instead of criticizing the
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Speaker 1: former team, maybe the players who leave and criticized should
23:58
Speaker 1: look in the mayor and wonder why didn't I do more?
24:01
Speaker 1: Why wasn't eye pulling in the right direction? You know,
24:03
Speaker 1: it's it's a player's league, and everybody blames. Just go
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Speaker 1: play and maybe, just maybe the quarterbacks wanted better play
24:14
Speaker 1: from the running back. I don't know, is that possible.
24:18
Speaker 1: I have a bit of a different take on this. Um.
24:21
Speaker 1: Leonard finally got to the top of the mountain, right,
24:23
Speaker 1: I mean, credit to Blake Bortles, he got the team
24:25
Speaker 1: to the ANFC Championship game. Gardner Minshew is a self made,
24:29
Speaker 1: self described Jim Rat kind of guy, and so he
24:33
Speaker 1: has played with two guys who had to work hard
24:36
Speaker 1: to play their best and now all of a sudden
24:38
Speaker 1: he showed up with the the Yogi master, you know,
24:41
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gotten to the top of the mountain.
24:43
Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't have. Maybe if the Jags traded for Ziot
24:46
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, you could say he was with a real
24:48
Speaker 1: He was with a real running back. Well, yeah, I
24:50
Speaker 1: mean you can always say that. I get it. Probably
24:55
Speaker 1: probably could have said it a different way, and we're all,
24:58
Speaker 1: by the way, guilty of saying things the wrong way,
25:01
Speaker 1: especially in this business. But he is with Tom Brady,
25:05
Speaker 1: so I kind of understood why he said it. Yeah,
25:09
Speaker 1: And in a fairness to lend from that, I I
25:11
Speaker 1: encourage everyone to go watch the entire twitter clip. I
25:14
Speaker 1: think he definitely misspoke a bit and was talking, Brian,
25:16
Speaker 1: like you said about getting to the top of the mountain,
25:18
Speaker 1: just the different level of quarterback. But I agrea definitely
25:21
Speaker 1: could have awarded that a little bit better. All right,
25:23
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25:29
Speaker 1: Does it feel like the Jags defensive line will be
25:31
Speaker 1: improved against the run? The big question going into this week. Well,
25:37
Speaker 1: it's hard to know, but you know, I think the
25:39
Speaker 1: defensive line will be better against the run early simply
25:42
Speaker 1: because of all the focus on it. You know, they've
25:45
Speaker 1: harped on and harped on it. I think the front
25:47
Speaker 1: line guys will be better against it. What you worry
25:50
Speaker 1: about a little bit, and Brian, you can speak to
25:51
Speaker 1: this is the unit wearing down, which is what happened
25:55
Speaker 1: last year more than anything. But I think this team
25:58
Speaker 1: will be better against the run because I don't think
26:00
Speaker 1: if you're gonna see the mental breakout plays. As you
26:02
Speaker 1: saw last year, they had a lot of plays where frankly,
26:06
Speaker 1: Ronnie Harrison was out of position, Miles Jack was trying
26:09
Speaker 1: to cover for people around him. If they're just better
26:12
Speaker 1: not letting those breakout plays go the seventy yards, hold
26:16
Speaker 1: the long runs to seven yards and not seventy, which
26:19
Speaker 1: is the back seven, you can minimize any wearing down
26:22
Speaker 1: that goes on up front. But as we know, Ronnie
26:25
Speaker 1: Harrison's down a team where everybody's pulling together, so it'll
26:27
Speaker 1: be fine. Uh. A couple of thoughts for the first
26:32
Speaker 1: is there's so much emphasis on the defensive line, and
26:37
Speaker 1: the biggest addition to the Jaguars run defense was Joe Sholbern,
26:40
Speaker 1: as they alluded to earlier. Uh, they need someone who
26:42
Speaker 1: was a dependable tackler to clean things up. Not that
26:45
Speaker 1: the d line isn't critical to this, but if you're
26:47
Speaker 1: looking for one spot in particular where they can be
26:51
Speaker 1: better immediately, Schobert should provide that. Here's the other John
26:55
Speaker 1: you just mentioned. You know, guys wearing down. And this
26:58
Speaker 1: is not a knock against Davy Jones. Here's a big,
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27:03
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27:09
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27:14
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27:16
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27:20
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27:22
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27:25
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27:29
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27:33
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27:38
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27:40
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27:43
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Speaker 1: drive find Wednesday morning, heading to the Twitter machine to
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Speaker 1: see what's up this morning. This has Brian Sexton for
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Speaker 1: all kinds of platforms is giving the numbers about what
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Speaker 1: the Jags there at number four best cap situation as
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30:09
Speaker 1: million point nine five dollars to spend. Brian's could become
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Speaker 1: a long way since the off season, well Dave said
30:16
Speaker 1: he wanted to fix it. He clearly has. If you
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30:21
Speaker 1: there's really no one to pay the thirty million dollars too,
30:24
Speaker 1: will be number one in the league in terms of
30:27
Speaker 1: cap dollars. Now, critics will say, rightly, so you don't
30:31
Speaker 1: want to have that many cap dollars. You want to
30:32
Speaker 1: have great players to play. But with the mission being
30:36
Speaker 1: to fix the cap, they've done that like an awfullest
30:42
Speaker 1: top sweet number two. A situation we were monitoring relatively
30:45
Speaker 1: closely this weekend was running back to Vonte Freeman visiting
30:48
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars. Adam Schefter reportedly saying that the deal
30:51
Speaker 1: could not be done Freeman previously playing with the Atlanta Falcons.
30:56
Speaker 1: We know all about this running game, So John, what
30:58
Speaker 1: did we think of this? Is it as big of
31:00
Speaker 1: a deal as it is? We just talked about that
31:02
Speaker 1: cap and how much space they have, so possibly that
31:05
Speaker 1: could have been a factor. Well, I think you want
31:07
Speaker 1: to be reasonable on what you pay a veteran running
31:11
Speaker 1: back for this team, considering that you know, I'm not
31:15
Speaker 1: gonna say Tanking said, you're probably not going to be
31:18
Speaker 1: a contender, And how desperate are you considering that you
31:22
Speaker 1: really do like the backs that you have running back
31:25
Speaker 1: is a position where, unless you're really really special as
31:29
Speaker 1: you get older, UH, is not necessarily a given that
31:32
Speaker 1: you're better than young backs with fresh legs. So we'll
31:36
Speaker 1: see how it plays out. I got the idea that
31:37
Speaker 1: Jaguars didn't feel desperate in this situation. Definitely feel good
31:43
Speaker 1: about that running back room talk about fresh legs. Big
31:46
Speaker 1: game coming up for James Robinson on Sunday, We're gonna
31:48
Speaker 1: see all the hype about him hopefully coming here soon.
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