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Jags HQ | Jaguars' Mindset Heading into Playoffs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to jaggs HQ, presented by Fresh from Florida, JP
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  Speaker 1: Shadrick and former Jaguar Jeff Logman sit down each week
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  Speaker 1: That game on jags HQ presented by Fresh from Florida
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  Speaker 1: starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome in.
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  Speaker 4: It is jags HQ presented by Fresh from Florida from
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  Speaker 4: the Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center. We are
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  Speaker 4: on the Jaguars Radio Network, presented by the University of
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  Speaker 4: Florida Number one university and the US News and World
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  Speaker 4: Reports Number one state for education. JP Shadrick, Jeff Logman, GM,
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  Speaker 4: James Gladstone, EVP Tony Boselli live in studio with us
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  Speaker 4: ahead of the AFC Wildcard playoff game the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 4: making their seventh straight playoff appearance. The Jaguars, turning it
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  Speaker 4: around from thirteen losses a year ago, now Division champions
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  Speaker 4: with thirteen wins in the twenty twenty five campaign. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: A lot going on this week playoff game the James.
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  Speaker 4: You're fired up?
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  Speaker 3: How are you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it's a blast. I mean, not all that
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  Speaker 2: different than any other week. Obviously, the intent is to
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  Speaker 2: go one to oh and been a lot of focus here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know since Monday at turning the page the
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo bills and good week of prep to date. And
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  Speaker 2: I know our fan base as it should be is
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  Speaker 2: is showing signs of sort of building up for the
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  Speaker 2: kickoff that will be on Sunday, and I know our
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  Speaker 2: players are doing the same and taking it one day
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  Speaker 2: at a time, making sure that when the whistle blows
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  Speaker 2: will be giving a good product.
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  Speaker 3: Fun times. Tony.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's great, It's uh, this is what you do
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  Speaker 5: all the work for. I mean, jeffle Tollya is a
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  Speaker 5: player you put all the work in through off season camp.
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  Speaker 5: It's long regular season obviously that every game is important,
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  Speaker 5: but then you get this opportunity to get in the
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  Speaker 5: playoffs and you don't know any chances you're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: at this. And one of my biggest memories is in
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  Speaker 5: ninety six when we made the playoffs the first time.
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  Speaker 5: I was a second year player, so I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: making the playoffs, But I remember guys like Jeff and
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  Speaker 5: some of the veterans who had never made the playoffs before,
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  Speaker 5: and it was like, it means something because there's organizations
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  Speaker 5: haven't been to the playoffs in a long time, and
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  Speaker 5: we have players that getting their first opportunity to go
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  Speaker 5: play in a playoff game and it's what you work for.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, what James said is exactly right,
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  Speaker 5: you got to go play the game. It's the same mentality.
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  Speaker 5: The fun thing is if you look at the message
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  Speaker 5: that has been communicating throughout this year is like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: let's go one to know and so it's consistent. It's
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  Speaker 5: no different is hey, here's the next opportunity, let's go
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  Speaker 5: play our style game. It's about us, and our players
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  Speaker 5: have done a great job of kind of living that
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  Speaker 5: message week in and week out and looking forward to
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  Speaker 5: watch them go out and play against a very good
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  Speaker 5: Buffalo team, a team that you talked about has been
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs multiple years in a row, have a
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  Speaker 5: great coaching staff, great players, one of the best quarterbacks
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL. And so this is a group that
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  Speaker 5: is seasoned. They're used to these opportunities, they're used to
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  Speaker 5: this environment, and it'll be a great challenge for us.
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  Speaker 6: I remember when we were players in ninety six and
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  Speaker 6: we got the chance to go to the playoffs. One
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  Speaker 6: of the first things that we started talking about was, man,
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  Speaker 6: we get paid for this too, because I mean, in reality,
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  Speaker 6: we would have played for free. Oh yeah, Now when
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  Speaker 6: we found out what we got paid, it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: that's even makes it even funner. But the reality is
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  Speaker 6: I would have done it for free. I would have
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  Speaker 6: done the playoffs for free every year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The stage is certainly one that's memorable for anybody that.
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  Speaker 3: Steps on it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the cool part from where I sit
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  Speaker 2: is the stage has also been created by those who
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  Speaker 2: are taking it right. These players have done a phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: job since we arrived, and they've put themselves in a
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  Speaker 2: position to deserve an op like the one that they're
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  Speaker 2: with in front of them, and look forward to them
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  Speaker 2: being able to showcase what they got.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the reality is that, you know, as much as
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  Speaker 6: you like to say that it's like any other game,
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  Speaker 6: I think in a lot of ways it's not. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs have a tendency sometimes to magnify moments, and
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  Speaker 6: I think how teams handle those moments, which can be adversity.
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  Speaker 6: Are the teams that end up being successful, and that's
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  Speaker 6: I think a big challenge for any team in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: And your team, I think this year has been resilient,
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  Speaker 6: that they've handled moments without even blinking. Yeah, And so
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  Speaker 6: that's the one thing that I'm excited about seeing is
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  Speaker 6: to see that continue in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the response has been something we talked
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  Speaker 2: about ever since preseason Week one versus Pittsburgh Steelers, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been able to show itself in a
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  Speaker 2: positive way and a lot of different instances over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the regular season. Obviously, we'll get to see
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  Speaker 2: how that shows itself through the course of the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we're talking about the bus Falow Bills,
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  Speaker 2: who have you know, they've been playing from behind and
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  Speaker 2: ending up with a win in seven different games this season,
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  Speaker 2: three of which they were behind by double digit score.
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  Speaker 2: So it's never over with these guys. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's just say being able to have experienced a moment
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  Speaker 2: in which we were on the opposite end of that,
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  Speaker 2: giving up a double digit lead and walking away with
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  Speaker 2: an l. You know, I think the response to sort
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  Speaker 2: of being in that space has been a positive one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: haven't won every game since, but I think it'll be
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  Speaker 2: fun to see what scenarios present itself and what those
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  Speaker 2: moments look like on our how.
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  Speaker 6: I've always kind of wonted this because I've never We've
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  Speaker 6: never kind of been here very often from an operations standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: and roster does the playoffs change for roster management, like.
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  Speaker 2: Sets like you're capped on a number of standard elevations
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  Speaker 2: for guys on practice squad that that's now open ended
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course to the play offs.
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  Speaker 3: Things like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely some mechanics, but nothing that would be overwhelmingly different.
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  Speaker 5: You get a practice and pads once a week.
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  Speaker 3: That's rights.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so some of the rules do change and and uh,
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  Speaker 5: but for the most part, I think it's business as usual.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the nice thing this week for US is
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  Speaker 5: we're playing at one o'clock, which is fantastic. Most of
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  Speaker 5: the games this year we have played at one o'clock
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  Speaker 5: on Sunday, and so it's a normal schedule for us.
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  Speaker 5: Were able to keep the same routine. And so while
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  Speaker 5: there's some mechanics that are different from a roster management
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  Speaker 5: and from a practice as far as pads no pads,
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  Speaker 5: it's been a it's a normal week and we're approaching
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  Speaker 5: it that way. Another opportunity and a big, a big opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about the bills and uh, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a lot of fun. It should be a great experience
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  Speaker 5: for fans and looking forward to having a packed house
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully they'll get there early and be there early
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  Speaker 5: when the guys are warming up and kind of set
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  Speaker 5: the tone for the day and make it difficult.
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  Speaker 3: For warm up. A little bitt tailgate.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely make it difficult for Josh Allen that offense to communicate,
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  Speaker 5: to operate. This is the most important game in the
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  Speaker 5: history of the franchise. There we go and there's an
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  Speaker 5: opportunity for us to go do something that will be
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  Speaker 5: special and looking forward to our guys going out there.
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  Speaker 4: It took us seven minutes and fifteen seconds to get
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  Speaker 4: to that. I'm shocked it took that long.
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  Speaker 6: Well, by the way, you got Liam dialed in on
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  Speaker 6: that because he was mentioned in his press conference the
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  Speaker 6: other day.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you got to go back to Brian's anders. Brian's
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  Speaker 5: Andrews started week one. We're getting ready for the Carolina Panthers,
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  Speaker 5: and James and I and Brian when senior front office
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  Speaker 5: members of our team was sitting there and he said.
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  Speaker 5: He looked at me and he says, tell me, this
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  Speaker 5: is the most important game of the history of the franchise.
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  Speaker 5: And I looked at him and I said, I had
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  Speaker 5: to think about it for a second. I said, you
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  Speaker 5: know what, You're right, and he says, the next one's
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  Speaker 5: next opportunity for us to go. And to be honest
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  Speaker 5: with that's we've approached it all year, each week and
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  Speaker 5: because I even think back as a player and talking
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  Speaker 5: about today with some of our players, you don't know
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  Speaker 5: how many opportunities you're ever going to get to do this.
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  Speaker 5: And the game of football is a game where as
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  Speaker 5: a player, you go out there and you don't know
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  Speaker 5: how many ops you get after that that chance to
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  Speaker 5: go on the field. And so having that approach, that mindset,
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  Speaker 5: our players have done a great job this year and
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  Speaker 5: how they've been locked in during the week of practice,
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  Speaker 5: understanding what's in front of them, attacking it, being excited
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  Speaker 5: for it in the meeting rooms, on the field on
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  Speaker 5: their own, you know, getting their bodies ready. It's a
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  Speaker 5: testament to them they've earned it. James just said it.
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  Speaker 5: He said it perfectly. Those are the guys that have
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  Speaker 5: earned it. Our coaches have prepared them, got them ready.
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  Speaker 5: But the players, what they've done, have earned this opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the fun part.
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  Speaker 3: Let's come back in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: We will dig into the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: The matchups on both sides of the Blacks be good ones.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be electric.
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  Speaker 4: Number one rush defense, number one rush offense.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to find out one way to find I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to find out. It'll be decided on the the
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  Speaker 3: football out there.
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  Speaker 4: It's a playoff game this Sunday and it's jags HQ
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  Speaker 4: on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh from Florida continues
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 4: It is jags h Q, Jap Shadrick, Jeff Logoman, Tony Busselli,
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  Speaker 4: James Gladstone in an AFC wild Card playoff game Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: one o'clock EverBank Stadium, the Bills and the Jaguars, the
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  Speaker 4: six to three matchup. We dig into the matchups and
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  Speaker 4: start off with the quarterback, of course, Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: For the Buffalo Bills. But this is a Bills team.
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  Speaker 4: It's now seven straight playoff appearances and they have not
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  Speaker 4: been able to get to the big game yet because
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  Speaker 4: the Chiefs have usually been in the way.
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs are no longer in it.
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen still has that ability in playoff games to
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  Speaker 4: play well. He's done that in his career. He's he
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  Speaker 4: done it in the regular season. Again, this is your
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  Speaker 4: dual threat ability. What is the most challenging part when
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  Speaker 4: you turn on the tape and there's Josh Allen throwing
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  Speaker 4: it around and you know what, running it around. He's
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  Speaker 4: got a run game to go with him too. What
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  Speaker 4: about the quarterback for the Bills?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Plays are never over, games are never over, and when
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  Speaker 2: you got that factor behind you, it's hard to it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to wrangle, right. I think he's somebody that is
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  Speaker 2: so so big that even when you know defensive linemen,
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  Speaker 2: defensive ends are able to get a pall on him,
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  Speaker 2: it's still quite the challenge to bring him to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: And he does a great job of, you know, avoiding
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  Speaker 2: a ton of a ton of sacks, extending plays and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes falling into him. Still because of his ability to
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  Speaker 2: extend and try to find whatever can come to life,
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  Speaker 2: downfield outside just the typical plan of the play. But
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  Speaker 2: behind that, you got a guy that doesn't flitch even
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  Speaker 2: in the face of adversity. So if he finds himself
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  Speaker 2: playing from behind, he's just as comfortable as if he's
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  Speaker 2: playing with the lead. And I think that that's something
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  Speaker 2: that any team can feel really confident with going in.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just a dynamic that obviously we've experienced having
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  Speaker 2: lived our second Houston matchup letting one get away that
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  Speaker 2: we were playing with a lad and have continued to
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  Speaker 2: grow in that space and find ways to sustain when
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  Speaker 2: we get the opt to do so. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: depending on whatever scenario presents itself on Sunday, I look
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  Speaker 2: forward to, you know, seeing how our guys respond to that.
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  Speaker 6: You got a tackling plan for Cook the running back.
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  Speaker 6: There's probably not many quarterbacks in the league that you
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  Speaker 6: might have a tackling plan for. He reminds me of Lway.
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  Speaker 6: And I remember the first time that I ever hit
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  Speaker 6: Lway and I was like, that's different.
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  Speaker 1: Dense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for real.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I hit him and I was like, oh
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  Speaker 6: my god. And I didn't get him down first time.
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  Speaker 6: And so the next time, you know, I had that
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  Speaker 6: in my subconscious ingrained. But I mean, he's a guy
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  Speaker 6: that's a big dude. He can he's got moves, he's
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  Speaker 6: strong as hell, savvy and uh and the crazy thing
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  Speaker 6: about him is it, you know, he can throw it,
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  Speaker 6: he can run it, he can do anything he wants.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's a guy that's not gonna slide. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: he's a he's a live player the whole the whole down,
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  Speaker 5: And it's really a snap to whistle every play that
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  Speaker 5: you have to play throughout the entire down because he's
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  Speaker 5: never out of it. And so often how many times
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  Speaker 5: have you watched the game with Josh Allen in it
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  Speaker 5: and you think the play is over and the defense
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  Speaker 5: to the lineman has him wrapped up and he's spinning
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  Speaker 5: and wiggling around, and next thing you know, the balls
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  Speaker 5: being tossed down the field thirty forty yards for a
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  Speaker 5: big player. He's still running and so you gotta you
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  Speaker 5: gotta clam tackle, you gotta wrap him up, and you
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  Speaker 5: got to bring him to the ground, no different than
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  Speaker 5: you would in this case James Cook. You have to
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  Speaker 5: treat him as a runner, as a guy who's you know,
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  Speaker 5: if you body tackle him he's gonna bounce off. And
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  Speaker 5: so whether it's uh in the passer being smart in
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  Speaker 5: how we rush him and populate him, but also continue
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  Speaker 5: the play and stay in at the entire time. And
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  Speaker 5: then on the back end, you gotta as a as
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  Speaker 5: a defender in the secondary, you gotta you got to
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  Speaker 5: play sometimes a little bit longer than you're used to.
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  Speaker 5: You can, you can't let that internal clock go off
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  Speaker 5: your head.
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  Speaker 6: I'd love to see the analytics on like Josh Allen
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  Speaker 6: when he's facing four man pressure? What what are his
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  Speaker 6: number is? Five man pressure? I know you guys have
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  Speaker 6: access to all that. I'm not looking for, you know,
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  Speaker 6: intricate details, but I mean, is there something that stands
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  Speaker 6: out from an analytics standpoint, because I mean that stuff
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  Speaker 6: is everywhere now and football seems like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there certainly tells and trends that you can leverage,
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  Speaker 2: and he's playing against But yeah, he does a great job,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 4: The analytics you want, but he's just really he's just
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  Speaker 4: what the analytics tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Mean.
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  Speaker 6: Let's say let's say you got five different things that
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  Speaker 6: you can do, and it's I mean, there's probably like
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  Speaker 6: a minuscule difference of his success rate of all five.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's that good and uh, but I would
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  Speaker 6: love to see it just out of curiosity, you know
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  Speaker 6: how all that works with him.
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  Speaker 4: Just because he's so damn good. The ultimate analytic is
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  Speaker 4: the scoreboard, right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you have about one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time if you score more points than the opponents,
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  Speaker 2: you win.
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  Speaker 6: That's you know, And part of this whole thing is
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  Speaker 6: like leading up to this week and reading up on
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  Speaker 6: all the information stuff, you always try to find something
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  Speaker 6: that's a common theme and when they win or when
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  Speaker 6: they lose. And the only thing that I found that
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  Speaker 6: was in common because you could look at rush numbers
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  Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff and their five losses
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  Speaker 6: that they had, the only thing that stood out was
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  Speaker 6: they had a minus seven point differential in those five losses.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, that's obviously the number one indicator of
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  Speaker 6: success and losing and football, but that's the one thing
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  Speaker 6: that stood out. And they're five losses, they're minus seven
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  Speaker 6: in those games. And it's not like they had minus
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  Speaker 6: five and one game and the rest of them were
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  Speaker 6: zero even even and minus one or whatever. But it
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  Speaker 6: was like minus two, minus two, minus one, minus one,
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  Speaker 6: zero you know, so off.
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  Speaker 5: Hitting the playoffs. I mean, turnovers are those big moments
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  Speaker 5: that can change the court course of a.
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  Speaker 6: Game and even bigger in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I mean. Everything's magnified. I think you said
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  Speaker 5: that earlier, Jeff, and I would agree so, and it's
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  Speaker 5: one thing our defense has done a good job at
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  Speaker 5: of you know, getting their hands on the ball and
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  Speaker 5: down this stretch. Trevor's done a great job, and our
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  Speaker 5: backs have done a great job protecting the ball. And
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  Speaker 5: so we have to continue just to go out and
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  Speaker 5: play that style of football and be aggressive in our defense.
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  Speaker 5: Under Campinelle, he's done a great job all year, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's the front four getting after the quarterback and being
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  Speaker 5: staut against the running the back half. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: saw it last week with Antonio Johnson. When there's opportunities there,
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  Speaker 5: take advantage of them. And I like Josh Allen's not
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  Speaker 5: going to give you very many opportunities, and so you
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  Speaker 5: got to play really sound football. But I think turnovers
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  Speaker 5: are probably the number one statistic is you look across
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  Speaker 5: games that have been played for as long as this
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  Speaker 5: game has been played, that really can determine, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the outcome have a huge impact on the outcome of
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Final thought on the Bills offense here, offensive line and
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: the run game design itself. Is it compared to any
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: other the season the Jags have seen? What does it
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: feel like when you turn it on.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: To good question?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: You know, we both Liam and I have familiarity with
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: coach Cromer, who heads up their offensive line and run
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: game coordination, so very familiar with his technical expertise and
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: what he actually intends to do with creating lean lanes.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It's a great combination between offensive line getting the way,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: staying the way style of connect activity. It's not necessarily
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: jolt off the ball and try to ground grind you
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: out deep down off the line of scrimmage. It's stay
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: connected as long as possible and allow a runner like
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: James Cook to be able to spot lanes and sort
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: of gash you. So it's a really well oiled machine, certainly.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: And they got a couple tight ends who are pretty
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: dynamic themselves that allow them the luxury of being able
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: to present looks that are geared towards runs and activate
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: those guys as pass catchers. So that's not an easy
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: thing to defend either.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think watching the table that jumps out
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: about their offensive line is how long they stay connected.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: And so they do a great job of sustaining blocks
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: in allowing a back like James Cook to pick and
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: choose because he's a guy who can work between the
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: tackles very effectively, but he also has that speed to
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: bounce outside and get an edge, and when he's one
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: on one outside he is really dangerous. So their ability
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: to use the technique that James just described, and coach
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Cromber is one of the better offensive line coaches in
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: this league. And then the effort in the strain by
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: their their front, their offensive line to stay connected to defense.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: So no different than any game, Jeff, you played in
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: a lot of them with Deepen's lineing is you gotta
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: we got to defeat blocks because those guys are very
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: good at sustaining.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: By the way, I mean, there's a fine line between
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: sustaining blocks and holding. They lead the league and holding
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: calls this year.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Well you know what, That line can get blurry sometimes,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: but they're the number one rush off in football. So
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: what they're basically saying is we're gonna sustain, We're gonna
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: be aggressive, we're gonna stay connected and we might get
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: some holding penalties we're gonna get, but you know, we're
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: gonna get a lot of yards and we have a
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: really good back that's explosive and so they get a
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: lot of explosive runs.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: What's the scouting report on Brad Allen the referee?
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: We've had them before, Okay, there's experience a couple of
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: weeks ago. Yeah, he is he the one the like's
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: call pen that. You know what?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: That was all well officiated matchup.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I thought they did a very good job the last
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: time we had them, which was the Colts. And you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: it's always different you get into the because the crew
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: is an all star crew. You get everyone together.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And so it's a different mechanics in.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: The Yeah, we'll see you don't know, I mean, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Brad Allen does a great job of controlling the game,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: running the game, all the mechanics on it, so we
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: know that'll be a clean operation by him. But how
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: that crew works together and how they call it your
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: guess as good as ours.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Back in a moment, we'll take a look at the
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Bills defense. Final thoughts about the Jaguars, quarterback Trevor Lawrence
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: and the AFC Wild Card playoff game this Sunday, the
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Bills and Jaguars coming up.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: And this is Jags HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Jaggs H. Thank You presented by Fresh from Florida.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Continues right now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Welcome back. Give It is Jack's ACEQ presented by.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Fresh from Florida, JP, Shadwick, Jeff Loga, when Tony Vascelli,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: James Ladstone, glad you're with us ahead of the AFC
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Wildcard Playoff the Bills and the Jaguars one o'clock kickoff
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: time this Sunday at ever Bank Stadium. And let's touch
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: on the Bills defense. I guess some names have been around.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I mean guys who played a lot of football, Jordan Poyer,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Matt Milano, Greg Russo, Joey Bosa. I mean they've got names.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: What is their calling card on defense? What stands out
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the most?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I think the players really have a good grip on
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: their system as a whole. The way everything connects from
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: rush to coverage is really well done. The way in
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: which they pass off routes on the back end is
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: really efficient, really effective, and I think that's shown itself.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And the way that that group has performed in particular
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: in the past game over the course of the season.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: That's been a system that they've had there consistently for
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: now a decade, and the players that come into it
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: get a good grip on it, quit it pretty quickly
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and establish themselves as fits are not fits, and guys
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: that have been around for a longer stint obviously have
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: as deep of a knowledge base and have seen every
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: look that can be presented to it over the course
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of their time there, so it's not like it's easy
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to present them with something new, and they're usually going
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to be on their their p's and q's when it
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: comes to identifying what it is that they're they're feeling
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: coming at them.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: And the fun thing is we talked about the number
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: one rush offense, which they have our number one rush
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: defense second half of this year. Obviously, Trevor in the
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: passing game has been dynamic and very good facing the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: number one pass defense in the NFL. So you have
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: a bunch of fun, fun things that it's going to
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: be see both sides test each other and kind of
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: what will hold up because they, as James said, because
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: of the system and how they run it, they've been
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: very stingy against the pass and they've done a great job.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: So what you expect to play off football. It's the
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: best of the best. And you know, they're very good
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: football team, and they've got this defense that makes it
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: hard for passers. And Trevor and our group has done
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: a great job down the back half and has been
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: scoring points and throwing it around. So just no different
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: than our defense has a huge test to try to,
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: you know, defeat blocks of that offensive line who we
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: talked about being really good and James Cook and getting
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: him to the ground. Great opportunity and the great test
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: for Trevor and our passing attack against the best pass
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: defense in the NFL.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: When it comes to like game plan formulation for playoffs,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: and you know, let's say you're looking at a team
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: like the Buffalo Bills during the regular season, you have
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: kind of a way that you go about looking back
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: at past games that they've played and mostly that were recent.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: When a team approaches the playoffs, how do they is
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: every team different? How they approach that from looking at
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: different samples of games to come up with a plan
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: of attack.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It's a good question. I wish I knew I don't
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: have much exposure beyond the loan team that I had
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: been with during my time in the NFL with the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Rams and now a product of the Rams and Liam
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and staff, and so I'm sure there are many ways
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to go about it, but this week's game plan looks
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: very similar to any week's games plan, and the intent
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: behind how we're trying to operate this week is to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: go one to know, and to change up too much
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: would be to maybe over coourse correct or play up
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: to whatever we might presume the stage is and instead
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of just falling back on what we know can be
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: a helpful sort of peace to our cause. And I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: know that that's presented itself so far through. It's called
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it Thursday point in time. On the timeline.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: There was a moment in last week's game that I
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: thought was pretty cool. So it was the Jeffrey Simmons
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: drawn back and forth and I see y'all's quarterback giving
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: it back to him a little bit.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: That was pretty cool. Listen, Trevor is a.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Trevor's a competitor, and anyone who questions that, you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: just watch how he operates and how he moves. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I think we've seen it since day one, since we
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: got here and took the job. The way he's competed,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: you know, coming back from the injury last year with
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the solar surgery, how he has been to onboarding a
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: whole new system, how he attacked the entire offseason. I mean,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: this guy is a grade A competitor and you see
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: it on the field and how he's approached everything. So
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I don't think any of us were surprised by seeing
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Trevor getting in the mix. Unafraid now, I'd prefer our
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: offensive line.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: To take Jeffers a layer to that. I'm sure you caught.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you caught the glimpse in between broadcast delays
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. But in that moment, you
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: got Parker involved in that, you got Tooting involved in that,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: you got Anton involved in that, and Anton was having
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: his dialogue in between series when it was just both
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: huddles standing out on the field. So it's not just
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: one man going on his own. It's a team.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: But the reason it was just significant is that that's
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: kind of a little has been or would be out
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: of character for Trevor a little bit. He's kind of
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: always been that kind of a little bit cool, collected demeanor,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: which is great for a quarter back to have.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: But I mean in that moment, I was like, we
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: just been going on edge.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: You know it again, We've been here not even a
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: year yet. But the one thing is that when Trevor
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Lawrence has shown and our entire team, because James exactly right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: You watch that game, you watch how this team plays.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: They have an edge, and James just alluded to it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: And I think one of the things I enjoy more
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: than anything is you watch how this team operates. Whether
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: it's celebrating or mixing it up. They do it as
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: a team. They do it together. You watch our guys celebrate,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: it's with each other. You watch when somebody is down
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: picking up jags, if someone's going back and forth, it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: everybody right there in the midst of it, including our quarterback.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: And so whether it's Anton or any other offensive lineman,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: or Parker or any of the receivers, or Trevor or
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: anyone else in the Samsung defense, I think anytime you
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: see that happening pretty quickly, there's multiple Jaguars.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: The beauty in the NFL, though, is the helmet and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: face mask, because there's a lot that nobody gets to
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: see coming out of the mouths. Right there's it's hard
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to lit me sometimes. And I remember Jacoby when he
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: when he first came into the building, He's like, man,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it wasn't but forty eight hours ago that I was
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: saying some wild stuff.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I had to go answer for it for sure. All right,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: final thought here, it's a home playoff game. It is
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: EverBank Stadium. It should be overflowing and wild and at
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: a fever pitch on Sunday for the Bills.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Jaguars cannot wait. No, Listen, our.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Fo appreciate all the support our fans have given us
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: throughout the year, and we know they're excited. We're excited.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: It's a great opportunity for the whole organization and that
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: includes our fans, and so looking forward to them being
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: out there. Get there early. Obviously, everyone knows. Listen, Bill's fans,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: they have great fans as well. There'll be some Bills
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: fans there, and no doubt about it's gonna be a
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: great atmosphere. But the end of the day, there's gonna
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: be a ton of Jaguar fans and make it loud.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Don't be afraid to start screaming when they're in the huddle,
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: so maybe they miss here something Josh Allen says in
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: the huddle, Uh, all the way through the snap of
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: the ball.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: But get there.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Early and have to get there early.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Tony and I will be doing our team get some
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: steps in gets There's.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: A good chance James will throw the football to somebody.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: That happened the other week, didn't.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: He Oh yeah, he likes throwing the football round.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It's like JJ Watt all of a sudden, he used
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: to do that too. I'll take the cop. I'm not sure, but.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: You'll take that one, same body type, exactly similar.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he'd be Jackson.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: No, we get out there early and because it does,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I mean obviously the game, the energy they bring our
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: players feet off of it, there's no doubt about it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: But don't don't be mistaken the energy when and we've
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: had more and more fans show up earlier and earlier
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: for pregames. That energy they bring in pregame warm up,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: our players feel that some juiced up and means something.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: It kind of sets the tone of what's coming. And
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: as an opposing player has been in stadiums when warm
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: up start filling up and you're looking around, You're like, Oh,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be one of those days today. It's gonna
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: be loud, it's gonna be this crowd's gonna be into it,
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: and it's.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: So looking forward to it, and I have no doubt
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: our fans will come ready to go.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Tony Boselli and James Gladstone. Always a pleasure, guys. Good
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: luck to you this weekend.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: All Right, we're back in a moment and in about
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: ten minutes up Jim Nance of CBS Sports on the
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: wide open AFC playoff race. This season, it's Jagg's HQ
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: and the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Jags Hates two presented by Fresh from Florida, continues right now.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: And we are on the tag Warts Radio Network, presented
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: by the University of Florida, number one university in the
• 29:14
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• 29:17
  Speaker 4: JP Shadwick with Jeff logoman I. Thanks to James Gladstone,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Tony Bisselli. As always, playoff weeks always.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Special, But you know what that's right, Really, it's just
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: another week. It's one and oh this week, so it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: not another one.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Just what they said, it's the same routine and there's
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: bigger stakes and things, but it's a one o'clock Sunday game.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: The schedule has not changed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: They know it's at stake, and they've been in a
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: similar mindset at least the last month or two.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's it is.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: You want to try to keep it similar in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: mindset and the approach and everything, the same as you
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: would at one o'clock kick for a regular season game.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: But the reality is this is a heightened atmosphere. Uh,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: it's single elimination. I mean, it's it's not normal. It's
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: not like a regular season game. And I also think
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: that what Tony was talking about, and I had mentioned
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: that the magnification of momentum in playoffs is real. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: if you have a let's say you have a giveaway,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: like lets you throw a pick, it's almost like two
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: in the regular season, just because it's that big of
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: a momentum swing.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: So throw eight and just say whoa.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: It's probably felt like right in the first half, it
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: felt like a here and so so I mean, obviously
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: that's what I'm saying, is that you know it's a
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: heightened atmosphere, and and because it's do or die a
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: lot of time to reaction to good and bad can
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: be a little bit over zealous, so U So it's
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: important this team, you know, keeps its head about it
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: to make sure that they're resilient and you know, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: hard working throughout the whole game like they always have
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: been all year. If they do that, they'll have a
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: great chance of success.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of talk this week about playoff experience. Yes,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: the Bills are making their seventh consecutive postseason appearance. They've
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: had deep runs to the AFC Championship Game. They haven't
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: been able to get back to the Super Bowl since
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: the ninety two season, but they're in it. They're there
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: every year. Josh Allen's made thirteen playoffs starts. He's seven
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: and six in those games.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: And what comes with that, JP, what comes with that expectation?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, now the pressure's on a little bit up there.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: For Trevor Lawrence, it's in on. He's one and one
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: in one playoff appearance. And this is a team that
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: lost thirteen games last year.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I think that I think pressure is real for the
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Buffalo Bills. I do because of the whole Mahomes is
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: out thing. Oh everybody's talking about this has got to
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: be their time because Mahomes has always been there out
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: and now's your chance to be the reigning king and
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: Josh Allen, the raiding MVP, is going to lead them
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: to victory, right And that's a lot of pressure, sure
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: it is. And I'm not saying that this Jaguars football
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: team is playing with house money, but they're not playing
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: with the same amount of pressure that the Buffalo Bills have,
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: you know. So I think that's a good position to
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: be in where you can just play ball, you know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: instead of feeling like, oh, we can't make any mistakes
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: and playing tight. So I think the Jaguars have I
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: don't want to say an advantage, but they ought to
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: feel good about that part of it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: We've got plenty ahead well, and a little bit later
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: we'll dig into the trenches both sides of the football.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: The Jags offensive line some question marks on the injury
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: report this week. Big question Jags defensive line has a
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: matchup against the best run offense in football, and that's
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: a fantastic head to head matchup. We'll dig into that
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: or turn though with Jim Nansen's CBS Sports. Reflecting on
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: this wide open AFC playoff race, It's jags HQ on
• 32:51
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• 32:58
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  Speaker 4: It is JAG's eight's huge ap Shatterrick with you. The
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  Speaker 4: AFC Wildcard Playoff coming up this Sunday as the Bills
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  Speaker 4: meet the Jaguars at EverBank Stadium. Well have Jeff Lockman
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  Speaker 4: coming back shortly Jim nanzm CBS Sports. We'll have the
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  Speaker 4: call of that game this week. I caught up with
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  Speaker 4: him earlier today and now. For the last fourteen years,
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  Speaker 4: the AFC Championship Game has featured the Patriots with Belichick
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  Speaker 4: and Brady, or the Chiefs with Reed and Mahomes, and
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  Speaker 4: in one instance they played each other.
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  Speaker 3: This year, though it's wide open in the AFC.
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  Speaker 7: It's a year where you don't say, well, to get
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  Speaker 7: where you want to go, you've got to go through
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  Speaker 7: Kansas City and Arrowhead, where you gotta go through Gillette.
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  Speaker 7: And I've had the great fortune of having a front
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  Speaker 7: row seat for all of that, and I've never seen
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  Speaker 7: a year to mike this. It truly is wide open,
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  Speaker 7: and the teams that are at one and two have
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  Speaker 7: inexperienced quarterbacks. Listen, they both have done a lot of
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  Speaker 7: great things. I don't want to diminish their accomplishments. I've
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  Speaker 7: seen a lot of Denver. I've seen New England one
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  Speaker 7: time this year, and we know that they've had exceptional seasons.
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  Speaker 7: But they've got to go through this. They've got to
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  Speaker 7: go through now having to win these games with all
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  Speaker 7: the chips on the table, that will be a tall task.
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  Speaker 7: So I think it's got a lot of people thinking
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  Speaker 7: that the out of the ordinary, if it's going to happen,
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  Speaker 7: this is the year it could happen.
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  Speaker 3: And we have two teams here JP.
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  Speaker 7: We have two teams here that really have a great
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  Speaker 7: opportunity to strike, really have a great opportunity to strike.
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  Speaker 7: Jacksonville gets no love, no respect all. You know, the
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  Speaker 7: respect card is still alive and well in the sports lexicon.
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  Speaker 7: But I believe they have a solid case for that.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think anybody's believing they're going to go that
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  Speaker 7: deep in it, and I don't know why they would
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  Speaker 7: look that at.
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  Speaker 3: This team that way.
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  Speaker 7: We've got the game that we wanted. This was the
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  Speaker 7: matchup I was hoping would fall into place. I was
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  Speaker 7: hoping Buffalo, when it all was going to shake out
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  Speaker 7: on some week eighteen, that they would be at the six,
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  Speaker 7: Jackson will be in the three, and that would be
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  Speaker 7: the game that the League of Science is CBS, so
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  Speaker 7: I got my wish and I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 7: this game.
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  Speaker 4: Jim Nant, CBS Sports give us the degree of difficulty
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  Speaker 4: of what Liam Cohen accomplished this year with this team,
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  Speaker 4: inheriting a thirteen loss team, turning it around to a
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  Speaker 4: thirteen win team, including an eight game win streak the
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  Speaker 4: last two months.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's got to be high.
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  Speaker 7: It's hard to measure it. And there you go again
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  Speaker 7: when you talk about Liam and the tenth win turnaround. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: he's on that short list of Coach of the Year.
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  Speaker 7: Is he the favorite? Maybe he should be, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think he should get more attention for it. I
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  Speaker 7: think a lot of people are talking up Vrapel what
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  Speaker 7: he's done. But it's a similar thing. I have a
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  Speaker 7: soft spot for the mid size market teams because I
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  Speaker 7: think the big media markets kind of think that everything
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  Speaker 7: is happening in their neck of the woods is bigger
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  Speaker 7: and better, and everybody else cares about what they care about.
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  Speaker 7: So we all care more about what's happening in New
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  Speaker 7: York or Boston or Los Angeles than the people in
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  Speaker 7: Jacksonville care about thirteam and what's being accomplished by their
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  Speaker 7: sports heroes and their sports coaches, and whatever it might
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  Speaker 7: be is more meritorious than what a guy like Liam
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  Speaker 7: Cohen's doing. So nobody out coached him.
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  Speaker 3: I know that.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, if he doesn't win the Coach of the Year,
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of sad. I know there can only be one,
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  Speaker 7: but no one out coached him. And I think that
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  Speaker 7: the team took on his personality, which is a hard
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  Speaker 7: thing to pull off in your first year. I think
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  Speaker 7: this team got mentally a lot tougher, and we saw
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  Speaker 7: the fruits of that as the year one on, And
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  Speaker 7: we saw what happened early in the year when they
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  Speaker 7: went out to San Francisco when he got into a
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  Speaker 7: bit of a confrontation back and forth with Robert Sava.
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  Speaker 7: I think that was a watershed moment in some ways
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  Speaker 7: for the team that maybe kind of filtered through the
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  Speaker 7: squad that we're tough, we're fearless, we're not afraid of anybody.
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  Speaker 7: We can go to Denver, they can to have this
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  Speaker 7: win streak and have a massive home win streak, and
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  Speaker 7: nobody's talking us up, and it's foregone conclusion. The Broncos
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  Speaker 7: are better than us. And you go out there, you
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  Speaker 7: didn't beat them, you dominated him. I'm impressed by what
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  Speaker 7: Liam's done the whole team, but I think it starts
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  Speaker 7: with them.
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  Speaker 4: That's Jim Nance, CBS Sports. We'll have the call of
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  Speaker 4: the wild Card playoff game this Sunday and Tracy Wolfson
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  Speaker 4: on the sideline. The full conversation with Jim Nance coming
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  Speaker 4: soon on the Jaguars Podcast Network, and they're on countdown
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  Speaker 4: to kickoff Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Ahead of the game, we'll hear his.
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  Speaker 4: Thoughts on Josh Allen and when the Bills quarterback and
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  Speaker 4: the pressure that he faces now in what will be
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  Speaker 4: his fourteenth career playoff game, this time on the road
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  Speaker 4: against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jeff Logoman returns when we return,
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  Speaker 4: it's Jaggs HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jaggs HQ presented by Fresh Florida continues right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is Jaggs HQ.
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  Speaker 4: The Jaguars face off against the Bills in an AFC
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  Speaker 4: wild Card playoff game this Sunday at one o'clock. Visit
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Logoman back with us.
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  Speaker 4: Now, JP Shadick with you, and let's get into the
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  Speaker 4: offensive and defensive lines this week. Start off with the
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  Speaker 4: Jaguars O line. There's a couple of guys on the
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  Speaker 4: injury report. Col Han Landon, with a knee issue, is
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  Speaker 4: not practiced Wednesday or Thursday. The left tackle Patrick McCarey
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  Speaker 4: missed the last two games of the regular season with
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  Speaker 4: a back injury, limited both Wednesday and Thursday. That's a
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  Speaker 4: step in the right direction. So some question marks here
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  Speaker 4: up front. They've had question marks a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: year upfront. They've been able to handle it. But now
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  Speaker 4: it's a playoff game and the focus is a little close.
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  Speaker 4: Are on this group and the injury report. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the crazy thing is that I'm not really worried about it. No, No,
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  Speaker 4: with their offensive line. I mean, isn't that crazy? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: will you sit there and you got injuries and you
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  Speaker 4: go it's okay? I mean, here's here's the world. What
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  Speaker 4: I mean by that. Let's say that Cole Van Landon
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  Speaker 4: can't play. Okay, Walker Little's played some good snaps over
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  Speaker 4: there this year, right tackle, I think he can handle that.
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  Speaker 4: Uh McCarry Uh played some good snaps at guard if
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  Speaker 4: he plays great if he doesn't, Chumy Dogu has gotten
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  Speaker 4: some good snaps over there. You know how I feel
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  Speaker 4: about the rookie Wyatt Mylene, that's right. So a lot
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  Speaker 4: of credit to.
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  Speaker 6: James Gladstone and for the leadership of making sure that
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  Speaker 6: that group was able to handle and it has handled
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  Speaker 6: multiple injuries throughout the year to the point where they
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  Speaker 6: never I never felt like they were playing somebody because
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  Speaker 6: they felt like they had to. They were playing people
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  Speaker 6: because they were able to and healthy. And that's a
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  Speaker 6: good place to be in because if you've got a
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  Speaker 6: guy out there at seventy five percent and then he's
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  Speaker 6: gonna stay at seventy five percent because you're not giving
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  Speaker 6: him time to heal, it doesn't help anybody. So I
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  Speaker 6: think in the long run, I think that was a
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  Speaker 6: brilliant job by them to address that position. I mean
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  Speaker 6: literally from the draft to the free agents to the
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  Speaker 6: development of the players that were already here, they've done
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  Speaker 6: a great job with it.
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  Speaker 4: On the other side of things, the Jaguars defensive line,
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  Speaker 4: they've had to battle through a couple of hand injuries
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  Speaker 4: this year. I mean, Trevon and Walker was wearing a
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  Speaker 4: club for a while, and so was Eric Armstead and
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  Speaker 4: then Josh Heines. Allen continues to get pressure and obviously
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  Speaker 4: in the run game, Devon Hamilton kind of sets a
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  Speaker 4: tone on the inside.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's playing well, and Foyer he's playing real well.
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  Speaker 6: Trayvon's getting better every week and this is a game
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  Speaker 6: that he needs to be a big time player, going
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  Speaker 6: against his former Georgia Bulldog, and I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 6: be a great matchup with Trayvon against Spencer Brown, who's
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  Speaker 6: a big tackle. But then also when they go to
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  Speaker 6: sub I expect Trayvon or Eric Armstead to line up
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  Speaker 6: over the right guard. Osirus Torrens, the UF grad I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if he graduated or not played football at Florida,
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  Speaker 6: he was there, I expect I expect them to wear
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  Speaker 6: him out. Wear him out, seriously, wear the guy. That's
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  Speaker 6: the guy. I'm not saying he's a fish, but that's
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  Speaker 6: the guy you need to win again. Look, he's been struggling,
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  Speaker 6: he's been struggling. He's he's the weak link. And here's how.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: Last week against the Jets, they rested their entire offensive line.
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  Speaker 6: Who was the one guy that didn't get any rests?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, that guy right there. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see what the Jags can do about that. Let's come
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  Speaker 4: back in a moment. We'll get our final thoughts ahead
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  Speaker 4: of this Wildcard playoff game, the Bills and the Jaguars
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  Speaker 4: Coming up Sunday one o'clock. It's Jags HQ on Jaguars Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jags HQ, presented by Fresh from Florida, continues
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back. Final moments of Jags HQ. The Bills and
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  Speaker 4: the Jaguars coming up Sunday at one o'clock at EverBank
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  Speaker 4: Stadium in AFC Wildcard playoff game the Buffalo Bills and
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  Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars, a six to three matchup. The Jags
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  Speaker 4: three and oh against the Bills in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Or two and all it's a third matchup all time
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Ninety six and twenty seventeen, the Jaguars knocked off the Bills.
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  Speaker 4: Now they get a chance again in twenty twenty five playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: I remember the ninety six game, well, I bet you do,
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  Speaker 6: I do, And I remembermember the seventeen game right ten
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  Speaker 6: to three was the final Ben Koyak with a touchdown
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  Speaker 6: reception and Josh Heines Allen played a pretty strong game,
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  Speaker 6: if I remember, right, was it Josh that year?
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  Speaker 3: No, he wasn't on the team yet.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm thinking of the Monday game I was against
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  Speaker 6: Josh Allen. Yes, it was against Josh Allen, but it
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  Speaker 6: was it was the Josh Allen game because Josh Allen
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  Speaker 6: game or something crazy had a monster game.
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  Speaker 1: Ye.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he only had one sack so far against Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: I think he had a takeaway then, but he.
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  Speaker 6: Had like a million other plays in that game.
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  Speaker 3: The nuts. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So now the pin that was before Josh Heinz Allen
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  Speaker 6: changed his name to officially Josh heinz Au.
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  Speaker 3: So the Bills have all this experience.
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  Speaker 4: They've been in the AFC playoffs for now seven straight years,
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  Speaker 4: including this year. The Jaguars have not been in since
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two. For all that away, at one o
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  Speaker 4: two kickoff time on Sunday, played the football.
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  Speaker 6: Game what is what's the famous line? That's why you
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  Speaker 6: play the game?
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  Speaker 3: Who said that? Is that? Dennis Green?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, great line, why you play the game.
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  Speaker 3: Bog's always a pleasure. Thanks for the clipping.
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  Speaker 6: Forward to Sunday, JP, It's going to be an exciting,
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  Speaker 6: exciting environment.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly will be in tonight. It's streams as well
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  Speaker 4: with the Foyer Jaguars linebacker. Thanks to our entire crew,
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  Speaker 4: Tony Vasselli, James Gladstone, I'm JP, Shadrick, thank you for
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  Speaker 4: listening and watching. It is Jaggs HQ on the Jaguars
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