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What Fred Taylor's Looking for in Jaguars vs. Dolphins Preseason Week 3 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We're with Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor
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  Speaker 1: ahead of preseason week three. Boy, it's coming to it
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  Speaker 1: ahead quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The regular season is coming fast. Fred, here we are.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I think I tweeted the other day it was sixteen
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  Speaker 4: days until the kickoff first game, you know, And I
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  Speaker 4: asked everybody who they got this year, and don't do
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  Speaker 4: the bayas. Oh I love my home team. I got
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  Speaker 4: a root for my home team because I'm sure the
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys fans somewhere ready to hang themselves. They got to
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  Speaker 4: be sick and tired of that. Even maybe some of
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  Speaker 4: our fans jp like it's part of the game. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we want it now as football fanatics, much like this season,
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  Speaker 4: we want it now. I hope I wish the season
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  Speaker 4: had already started, and so many instances sometimes it feels
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  Speaker 4: that way, but it's here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's preseason is about the rap.
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  Speaker 4: We get one more shot to see the guys and
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  Speaker 4: then we're off the cuts and we'll get final, final rosters.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be able to do our fantasy football thing. You're
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  Speaker 4: hopping in with Mike this year.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on I'm not gonna be in with Mike.
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  Speaker 1: We've got an internal one. Of course we can't do
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  Speaker 1: it for money, that's against the rights, but just for fun.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been in one in years, so right, I'll
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  Speaker 1: need your advice.
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  Speaker 4: I think. How about an invite? Yeah, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: like me. What's going on? I couldn't get an invite
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  Speaker 4: to your your league.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not in charge, man, I just work here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm internal, or maybe I'm just a contractor.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But your name's on the wall, Brad. We could probably
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  Speaker 2: get you in if you wanted to play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but uh yeah, no, preseason is gonna wrap man,
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  Speaker 4: and all those things I just mentioned, uh you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: final cuts, you know, sorting out the roster and and
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  Speaker 4: really saying who we're gonna you know, go to battle
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  Speaker 4: with for the duration of the season. Of course, they'll
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  Speaker 4: make some moves, as you know. They made a trade
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  Speaker 4: there after the last preseason game, so they'll make moves
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  Speaker 4: as we go. But you know, they've been doing well
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  Speaker 4: so far.
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  Speaker 2: Fred Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: This team seemed to bounce back last week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going into the Saints game. They had the lineman assignment
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  Speaker 1: practice where they literally just get to the line, snap
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  Speaker 1: the ball and stop and do it again. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and then they have a scrimmage that outside of the
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  Speaker 1: first drive, the offense didn't play well at all.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of adversity.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like last week and just still but you
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  Speaker 1: know what, they come in the game and the starters executed.
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  Speaker 1: So that means it went from the practice field to
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  Speaker 1: the game. Now they are playing backup to the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Take that out. The response has to be a good
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  Speaker 1: sign for Liam Cohen.
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  Speaker 4: You still got to play regardless who's out there back up.
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  Speaker 4: Even on air, guys dropped ball against air. So if
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  Speaker 4: you have second team, third team, it does not matter.
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  Speaker 4: You want to go out there and be efficient. You know,
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  Speaker 4: going back to the alignment assignment. You know, we talked
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  Speaker 4: about that last week and you're bringing up today. I
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  Speaker 4: think it paid off. You know, for me, it's about
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  Speaker 4: quality reps. Whether they're you know, against air, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: physical against you know, your teammates, or even they're just visual.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be able to get make that repue
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  Speaker 4: as efficient as you can. And one of my coaches
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  Speaker 4: used to coach Kennedy Pohler, who always coach, says, I
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  Speaker 4: told I took notes my entire career. You will see
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  Speaker 4: some guys come in the room and not take take
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  Speaker 4: a single note. They try to remember it up here,
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  Speaker 4: he said, if you write it, you remember it because
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  Speaker 4: your brain is something in your brain that can always
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  Speaker 4: go back to that little piece of paper. It can
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  Speaker 4: even see you performing the act of writing the note.
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  Speaker 4: You can know exactly where at on that paper. If
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  Speaker 4: you had to go back now, you can know exactly
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  Speaker 4: where you put it. Your key points. Just like taking
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  Speaker 4: quizzes or tests or what have you. Football is no different.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be aby capture that note taking then
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  Speaker 4: have a visual you know note, so you have something
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  Speaker 4: to go back on. And I think the guys all
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  Speaker 4: did well because they came out and they executed with
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  Speaker 4: position precision.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor should have been nine to ten.
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  Speaker 4: BT dropped the ball earlier in the game a nice
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  Speaker 4: crossing route. Trevor was able to come back next play
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  Speaker 4: third down and they were able to continue that momentum
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  Speaker 4: and go down and sustain the drive. So they played
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  Speaker 4: well last week offensively, I thought. Defensively, they got after
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  Speaker 4: the Saints up front right. There had some good pressure
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  Speaker 4: winger where the safety blitze off the edge, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he did well, and gathering a quarterback there for a sack.
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  Speaker 4: So I think as a unit they played pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly a big improvement from week one, where we saw
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  Speaker 4: them jump off in a false start the very first
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  Speaker 4: player of the game, we saw a you know, twelve
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  Speaker 4: men in a huddle on a field goal to the tenth.
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  Speaker 4: This week versus the Saints being tied first quarter, we
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  Speaker 4: didn't see a single penals. So even that in itself
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  Speaker 4: something that's not gonna well, it is gonna show on
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  Speaker 4: a stat book, but when you commit the crime, but
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  Speaker 4: when you don't, they don't show on the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 4: But this was a huge improvement and I'm sure the
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  Speaker 4: coaches were happy. Day I had an opportunity to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us so coming up this week, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars have a joint practice. It was Thursday down in
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  Speaker 1: Davy against the Dolphins. Really kind of the last chance
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  Speaker 1: to get a look at the starters against another team
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  Speaker 1: because it just feels like a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to rest on Saturday night, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's really coming down to only the final few roster spots.
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  Speaker 1: So this has got to be a different feel for
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  Speaker 1: guys who've been fighting on camp, trying to find a
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  Speaker 1: way up the depth chart. This might be their last
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to put something on tape. As we always say,
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  Speaker 1: not only for the Jags, but there's thirty one other
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  Speaker 1: two as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I totally agree, and I've always agreed with the
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  Speaker 4: notion that it's thirty one other teams and you want
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  Speaker 4: to just try and put your best foot forward. I
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  Speaker 4: posted some on my Instagram the other day. I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you got to put the work in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: God God will handle the results. That's his business. The
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  Speaker 4: results are God's business, and guys have to have that mindset.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as long as I work hard, I've studied hard.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I gave myself a great opportunity. Then how
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  Speaker 4: do you tips lay or how do they fall? You
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  Speaker 4: have to deal with it, and if it's not in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 4: then it's not in Jacksonville. But you know, based on
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  Speaker 4: this week's practice, as you just mentioned, I don't believe
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  Speaker 4: the starters are going to get many reps. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: again going back to the very first week when we
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  Speaker 4: talk pregame we talked inside the stadium. My entire focus,
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  Speaker 4: especially with the guys that you know are going to
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  Speaker 4: go into the seat, let's get them out of preseason healthy.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be able to hit the ground run
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  Speaker 4: in these first couple of weeks healthy, so you can
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  Speaker 4: start to create momentum and hopefully that momentum can carry
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  Speaker 4: you into some good looks. Some teams you never see injured,
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  Speaker 4: you know or never see the many injuries. This team
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  Speaker 4: a year ago was decimated by injuries, just a lot
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  Speaker 4: of inconsistencies, guys.
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  Speaker 3: In the lineup. One we got of the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: So my entire main goal, I'm sure the coaches are too,
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  Speaker 4: is to get the guys. After they excuse me, my
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  Speaker 4: main goal is to well. The coach's main goal is
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  Speaker 4: to once they sought the roster, it's just to make
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  Speaker 4: sure guys are healthy and ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: So again it's a good preseason for him.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully they can finish out strong and get the cuts
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  Speaker 4: done and see what our roster looks like. Man, be
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  Speaker 4: ready for your twenty twenty five twenty twenty six Jaguars football.
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  Speaker 1: Final thought with it here, Fred, you mentioned the trade
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  Speaker 1: earlier Luke Fortner goes to the Saints. Colin Saunders, defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 1: comes back from the Saints. After the game, he said
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  Speaker 1: he was at home playing Fortnite when he got the
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  Speaker 1: phone call after the.
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  Speaker 2: Game, where are we trading?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: We just played these guys tonight. It's funny how the
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  Speaker 1: league works sometimes, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but that's the beauty of it.
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  Speaker 4: Man. Guys don't know, some players don't always agree with
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  Speaker 4: it because we you know, the business part of it.
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  Speaker 3: We figure that part out last. Right. You love football.
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  Speaker 4: You just want to play your work hard, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what your focus is. And then this thing that's called
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  Speaker 4: the business of the NFL kind of disrupts, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the fun and the real joy you.
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  Speaker 3: Get to have.
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  Speaker 4: But the sooner you learn that it's the business, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and the sooner you learn that it is your job,
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  Speaker 4: and the priority of that is to, you know, make
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  Speaker 4: these two teams look good.
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  Speaker 3: That the better they look, the more money you make.
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  Speaker 4: And like any other job, it's about earnings and profits
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  Speaker 4: and all of that and entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, he's he made the trip.
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  Speaker 4: He's a Jaguar now, and you know, if he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: play well, he'll be getting shipped out and maybe traded
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  Speaker 4: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the way the game goes.
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  Speaker 2: It's the way it goes. Fred.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, though, we're not trading you. Fred, I
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  Speaker 1: got news for you. You're staying here from Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: locked in. I'm a forever Freddie tea forever a Jaguar man.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's why I get in my feelings
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  Speaker 1: sometime when these guys go off on these you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rampai's about my team, and I got to hear Channing
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  Speaker 1: Crowder talks trash. We got a friendly push up wager
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  Speaker 1: that the Jaguars will have a better record than his
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  Speaker 1: former team of Dolphins this year for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty push ups, and you have to do them inside
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  Speaker 1: of ten minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I can do that. He can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say he might as well go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and do him now.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is. I believe so too, Fred. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you in a couple of weeks. Week one
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  Speaker 1: is the next time we'll catch up on this.
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  Speaker 3: Conversation, ma'am. I'm looking forward to it.